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Describing my Struggle

December 28, 2017 No Comments

My new essay on Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd’s My Struggle is now available in The Point

“Language and Attention” published in Sweden

December 22, 2017 No Comments

The publishers, Faeton, launched the book at the well-known SÃ¶der Bookstore in Stockholm. Here’s a write-up about the publication (in Swedish). And here is a link to the radio interview I did with Anna Tullberg from Swedish Radio.

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My method — talk and conversation about writing and thinking in Oslo

December 22, 2017 No Comments

Here is a link to NFF’s (The Norwegian Associaton of Non-Fiction Writers’) event on writing in Oslo on 6 December, 2017. The language is Norwegian.

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Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, and Professor of English, and Theater Studies at Duke University. She is Director of the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke.

In spring 2009, she was a Fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

Toril Moi grew up in the countryside in the south-west of Norway, and was educated at the University of Bergen. From 1979 to 1989 she lived mostly in Oxford, UK, and since 1989 she has been a resident of North Carolina.

As an academic, she writes on feminism, literary theory, ordinary language philosophy and literature. Her first book, Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (1985) has been translated into fifteen languages. Her 1994 book Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman has been translated into five languages, and a new 2nd edition was published in 2008. Her book Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism won the MLA's award for best book in comparative literary studies for 2007. Her most recent book on feminist theory is Sex, Gender and the Body: The Student Edition of What Is a Woman (2005).

In Norway, Toril Moi also writes widely for newspapers and magazines.