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Published — 16 August 2026 ⏭ Louisiana Channel

8 writers on facing the blank page and writer's block

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Colson Whitehead, Olga Tokarczuk, and five other writers share their approach to the blank page.

“There’s so much freedom on this blank page,” says German writer Charlotte Gneuss. For Colson Whitehead, known for his novels ‘Nickel Boys’ and ‘The Underground Railroad’, there’s no such thing as writer’s block; “I think it’s really just a problem I haven’t solved yet,” he says.

For the Nobel Prize laureate, Polish Olga Tokarczuk, she simply has too many ideas to cope with them all at once: “I have never experienced a creative emptiness.” For her namesake, Danish writer Olga Ravn, the feeling of innocence that comes from starting something new “is wonderful.”

The video also features Johan Harstad, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Sayaka Murata and Claire-Louise Bennett.

Interviews by Tonny Vorm, Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen, Caroline Albertine Minor, Marc-Christoph Wagner, Nanna Rebekka, and Marie Tetzlaff.

Cameras: Klaus Elmer, Rasmus Quistgaard, and Simon Weyhe.
Edited and produced by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen

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Published — 14 August 2026 ⏭ Louisiana Channel

Architect Shigeru Ban is disappointed by his own profession

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Shigeru Ban (b. 1957) is a Japanese architect known for his innovative work with recycled cardboard tubes, which he used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. In the 1980s, he studied under John Hejduk at Cooper Union’s School of Architecture in the United States. Notable buildings include Centre Pompidou-Metz in France, Cardboard Cathedral in New Zealand, and the Aspen Art Museum. Shigeru Ban has won several awards, including the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014. He is currently a professor at Keio University.

Shigeru Ban was interviewed by Jens H. Jensen at Simose Art Museum, which he designed, in Hiroshima in March 2023.

Camera: Yudai Maruyama
Edited by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Produced by Christian Lund

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