Writers Talking Writers: Olga Ravn on Doris Lessing and Karl Ove Knausgård on Jorge Luis Borges.

The article focuses on contemporary Scandinavian authors Olga Ravn and Karl Ove Knausgård discussing the influential literary figures Doris Lessing and Jorge Luis Borges, respectively. Ravn highlights Lessing’s innovative narrative structure in *The Golden Notebook* and her fearless engagement with traditionally female subjects and political critique, noting Lessing’s complex legacy despite her Nobel Prize recognition. Knausgård reflects on Borges’s expansive and genre-defying body of work, emphasizing Borges’s exploration of reality, identity, and fiction as a continual source of inspiration and literary freedom. Both authors underscore the enduring relevance and creative impact of these literary titans on their own writing.