Thought Spirals

Karen Fastrup and Geoffrey D. Morrison

2:00pm

Sunday, October 1

60 mins

Authors Karen Fastrup and Geoffrey D. Morrison take readers on a journey through the complexities of the human brain in two novels about mental health, the power of language and the strange – sometimes frightening – collection of thoughts and memories that shape our identities.

In an intimate work of autofiction, Fastrup’s Hunger Heart details the author’s unexpected transition from successful writer and translator to patient in a psychiatric facility. Morrison’s Falling Hour follows the meanderings and thought spirals of a man convinced his brain is broken, punctuated by snippets of poetry, lyrics and birdsong.

In unmissable conversation, two writers speak frankly about the shadows of the human psyche, the challenges of recovery and the love that anchors us.

Moderated by Claire Battershill.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

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In unmissable conversation, two writers speak frankly about the shadows of the human psyche, the challenges of recovery and the love that anchors us.

Moderated by Claire Battershill.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Karen Fastrup

Karen Fastrup is the author of six novels. Hunger Heart, first published in Denmark in 2018, was shortlisted for the DR’s Novel Prize. Femina Magazine named Fastrup one of the seven most remarkable women in Denmark in 2019, and the year’s “Taboo Breaker” for the awareness Hunger Heart created around mental illness. Beloved of My Twenty-seven Senses (tr. Tara Chace) was published by Book*hug Press in 2008. Fastrup has also translated more than 50 novels into Danish by such notable authors as Sally Rooney, Karl Ove Knausgård, August Strindberg, Linn Ullmann, Vigdis Hjorth and Per Petterson. Fastrup lives in Copenhagen.