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Danish Originals S6E5: Louise Bokkenheuser

In this episode, Pulitzer finalist and Ebbe Munck Prize-winning Danish writer and editor Louise Bokkenheuser talks her upcoming novel How to Organize the World, and recalls her time as a war correspondent in Bagdad, Iraq for The Los Angeles Times and what her experience taught her about human beings’ capabilities in treating each other

From her home in New York, Pulitzer finalist and Ebbe Munck Prize-winning Danish writer and editor Louise Bokkenheuser talks her upcoming novel How to Organize the World, and recalls her time as a war correspondent in Bagdad, Iraq for The Los Angeles Times and what her experience taught her about human beings’ capabilities in treating each other.

She further shares her thoughts on the state of journalism in the US under a second Trump presidency.

Louise selects a work by J.F. Willumsen from the SMK collection.

(Photographer: Maury Loeb)

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