Thursday 6 February 2020
Youth programme: Lynda’s journey
Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Youth programme: My mother and I
Tiril Broch Aakre
Official Opening of LitFestBergen 2020
Welcome to the opening of LitFestBergen 2020!
Listening post: English literature from the whole world
Tishani Doshi, Mary Ruefle, Raja Shehadeh, Jonny Steinberg
What’s happening in Hong Kong?
Antony Dapiran, Jason Y Ng, Kjersti Løken Stavrum
Life at local level
Kjersti Bjørkmo, Jens Kihl, Trond-Viggo Torgersen
Government-certified memories
Maria Stepanova, Ingunn Lunde
Lectures of the day: My dear Damascus
Diana Darke
Everyday life after the violence
Njabulo Ndebele, Tonje Vold
Open mike
Fredrik S Hagen, Khaled Khalifa
This is also a refugee
Nhu Diep, Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Eivind Riise Hauge
Confusion about art and class
Jens M Johansson, Sandra Lillebø
The Ideal Norwegian State
Alt Går Bra
Friday 7 February 2020
Youth programme: Growing up under apartheid
Njabulo Ndebele
Youth programme: In other words
Doung Anwar Jahangeer
Writing about life
Thorvald Steen, Berit Bareksten
Lectures of the day: Common sense and contempt
Anders Johansen
Every day in a state of emergency
Nitasha Kaul and Salil Tripathi
Seminar: South African literature and literary criticism
Hedley Twidle, Tonje Vold
Performance: In other words (SOLD OUT)
Doung Anwar Jahangeer
PEN postcard campaign: Opening
Salil Tripathi, Kjersti Løken Stavrum
Lectures of the day: People on parade
Cathrine Baglo
Death, every day
Khaled Khalifa, Diana Darke
What happened to mother?
Tiril Broch Aakre, Selma Lønning Aarø
Critical Quartet: Festival special
Frode Helmich Pedersen, Ida Lødemel Tvedt, Hedley Twidle and Eirik Vassenden
A difficult reconciliation
Harald Gaski, Njabulo Ndebele, Kristin Skare Orgeret
How to translate the commonplace?
Laila Stien, Synneve Sundby, Grethe Fatima Syéd
Mary Ruefle: a head for poetry
Mary Ruefle, Ida Lødemel Tvedt
Opening, Lydgalleriet (the Sound Gallery): Writing Game
Ingrid Berven, Cecilie Løveid
The accidental dancer
Tishani Doshi, Tora de Zwart Rørholt
Semi-final in Norwegian poetry slam championship
Heidi Marie Vestrheim
Leonard Cohen: everyday life of the artist (SOLD OUT)
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Annlaug Børsheim, Rune Solberg, Kim Guldbrandsen and Inge Rypdal
Leonard Cohen: everyday life of the artist EXTRA (SOLD OUT)
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Annlaug Børsheim, Rune Solberg, Kim Guldbrandsen and Inge Rypdal
Saturday 8 February 2020
The Taste Workshop’s “sense trail”
Can you rely on your sense of taste when you can’t see what you’re eating?
Classic literature lecture: “She gather me, the pieces I am”
Kaja Schjerven Mollerin on Toni Morrison.
Who owns nature?
Sigbjørn Skåden, Bjørn Samset, Kjersti Sandvik.
PEN postcard campaign
Send a greeting to authors, journalists and bloggers who have been imprisoned or are being threatened and persecuted worldwide.
Life is everywhere
Marie Darrieussecq, Margunn Vikingstad
Performance: In other words (SOLD OUT)
Doung Anwar Jahangeer
Racism in the USA then and now
Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Kaja Schjerven Mollerin
How babies are made
Anna Fiske
CANCELLED My best decade
The event is cancelled
Occupied life
Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson, Kjersti G Berg
Coming home to your language
Risten Sokki, Sigbjørn Skåden, Harald Gaski
Seed and dream
Bjørn Ousland
Listening post: French literature
Patrick Chamoiseau, Marie Darrieussecq
The world on Saturday: Europe, what now?
Ingrid Brekke, Nazneen Khan-Østrem, Vibeke Knoop Rachline, Kjersti Løken Stavrum.
Commissioned work: The fight for attention
Amalie Holt Kleive
A language of his own
Patrick Chamoiseau, Synneve Sundby
Listening post: Arabic literature
Khaled Khalifa, Mazen Maarouf
River and life
Esther Kinsky and Daniel Medin
The meaning of Mandela
Njabulo Ndebele, Jonny Steinberg, Koleka Putuma, Teresa Grøtan
Man, woman and art
Susanne Christensen, Marie Darrieussecq, Kari Jegerstedt
Lectures of the day: Germany after Merkel
Ingrid Brekke
Dreams from the war
Mazen Maarouf and Daniel Medin
Lectures of the day: Life with the animals
Penny Johnson
Blood, sweat and writing
Gloria Gervitz, Mary Ruefle and Kari Jegerstedt
Murder in Bethlehem
Jonny Steinberg, Hedley Twidle
Confinement as a daily experience
Bjørn Dahl, "Lars", Eivind Riise Hauge, Annette Mattsson, Ida Lødemel Tvedt
Shaman encounter in Siberia
MiRee Abrahamsen, Jan H Landro
Poetic punk gala
Poets from 10 nations.
Law and liberty in Hong Kong and China
Antony Dapiran, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde
Ask the author
Siss Vik, Frode Helmich Pedersen, Jens M Johansson and Marit Eikemo
Night chat: Lars Saabye Christensen and Alf van der Hagen
Lars Saabye Christensen. Alf van der Hagen
Sunday 9 February 2020
Lectures of the day Terrorism’s victims
Vibeke Knoop Rachline
Poetic activism
Koleka Putuma, Niillas Holmberg, Michael W Opara
Norway: a generational portrait (CHANGED)
Lars Saabye Christensen, Selma lønning Aarø
PEN postcard campaign
Send a greeting to authors, journalists and bloggers who have been imprisoned or are being threatened and persecuted worldwide.
Light and dark
Bjørn Samset, Sigri Sandberg, Jan H Landro
Around the world in 80 minutes (SOLD OUT)
Thorvald Steen, MiRee Abrahamsen, Susanne Christensen, Nazneen Khan-Østrem
Mountain and sea. Poetry from Shanghai and Bergen
Experimental poetry from Shangai and Bergen.
Substance abuse and religion
Kristine Hovda, Øystein Skjælaaen, Grethe Fatima Syéd
The short story as an everyday genre
Laila Stien, Frode Grytten, Marit Eikemo, Eivind Riise Hauge
A lyrical response
James Byrne, Jacob Silkstone
Closing performance: Throwing Voices
A genre-busting performance.