Lars Norén: Advice to the Young

Lars Norén is widely regarded as the greatest contemporary Swedish playwright. We paid him an exclusive visit at his apartment in Stockholm to hear his advice for aspiring writers. “The market is the most lethal of all poisons.” Norén prefers art that doesn’t strive for publicity and is genuinely upset by the current need to adapt to the market and the unification it brings with it: “It makes art rot away.” He therefore encourages subcultures and advices upcoming artists to “stay outside the liberal market