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LitFestBergen 2023

Opening of LitFestBergen 2023 (sold out)

Kjartan Hatløy, Arve Henriksen, Mutabaruka, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Reny Marie Gaasand Folgerø, Eduardo Andersen, Teresa Grøtan, Hjørdis Losnedahl

Fom identity to rage – 5 years of LitFestBergen

Teresa Grøtan, Kjersti Løken Stavrum, Jens Kihl, Sandra Lillebø

The Listening Post: Literature in Spanish

Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel

How is rage translated?

Gabriela Wiener, Bente Teigen Gundersen, Helene Hovden Hareide

The Listening Post: Nordic Literature

Charlotte Weitze, Petra Rautiainen, M. Seppola Simonsen

Iran seen from Norway: About being an exiled author and activist

Asieh Amini, Ingeborg Kværne, Merete Røsvik

New Norwegian voices

Sandra Lillebø, Monica Isakstuen, Eivind Riise Hauge, Daniel Medin

The American Nightmare [sold out]

Thomas Seltzer, Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen

Ukraine’s neighbours

Valzhyna Mort, Tatiana Țîbuleac, Martin Paulsen

The untamed child [sold out]

Matias Faldbakken, Marit Eikemo

Football: Power and powerlessness

Nils Henrik Smith, Philip McNulty, Henning Bergsvåg.

People as nature

Charlotte Weitze, Anne Karin Sæther

Movie screening: The Writer from a Country without Bookstores

Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel

Winner meeting: Nora Dåsnes

Nora Dåsnes, Robin van de Walle

Furious lecture: Language

Kristin Fridtun

Life in Limbo

Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Helene Hovden Hareide

Open mic

Furious Father

Martin Eia-Revheim, Clemens Saers, Kjersti Mjør

Furious at mother

Tatiana Țîbuleac, Ingunn Lunde

Music and aggression

Dayal Patterson, Thomas Seltzer, Tor-Otto Mjelde

Rage in life and literature

Lars Fr. Svendsen, Monica Isakstuen, Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Eivind Riise Hauge

Relaxation

Kjartan Hatløy, Arve Henriksen, Thomas T. Dahl, Terje Isungset

Kven Poetry

M. Seppola Simonsen

Furious lecture: Rage

Lars Fr. Svendsen

The Battle of Stalingrad

Iain MacGregor, Martin Paulsen

The Listening Post: Mengiste, Temelkuran and Al-Nakib

Maaza Mengiste, Ece Temelkuran, Mai Al-Nakib

The familiar unknown

Zaffar Kunial, Rasma Haidri

Cultural diversity – fostering a sense of community in schools

Ben Yu, Leïla Rezzouk, Anna Svingen-Austestad, Linn Katrin Pilskog

The radicalised

Anne Bitsch, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Øyvind Strømmen

Strife and solidarity

Jonas Bals, Mímir Kristjánsson

Withstanding the storm

Ingeborg Senneset, Hilde Sandvik

Furious lecture: School

Clemens Saers

Prose Lounge: Typos!

Kristin Fridtun, Gunnstein Akselberg, Jan H. Landro

Rage as a destructive force

Ece Temelkuran, Kjersti Løken Stavrum

The Iliad without anger

Alice Oswald, Janne Stigen Drangsholt

What is literary quality?

Nick Barley, Lola Shoneyin, Michael Kelleher, Eirik Vassenden

Getting the rage down on paper

Annette Mattsson, Eivind Riise Hauge

Should rage be condoned?

Hilde Kvalvaag, Norun Haugen, Hilde Sandvik

Poetic Punk Gala [sold out]

Alice Oswald, Brynjulf Jung Tjønn, Maja Lee Langvad, Øyvind Rimbereid, Valzhyna Mort, Eira Søyseth, Mutabaruka, Zaffar Kunial, Pauli Tapio, Sarah Zahid,Henning Bergsvåg

Literary date

Lars Petter Hagen, Solrun Toft Iversen, Trond-Viggo Torgersen

Rivalry on and off the pitch

Phil McNulty, Jim White, Davy Wathne

Conversation in the night: Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Alf van der Hagen

My language is my bird

Masoma Kawsary, Parwana Fayyaz, Nasrin Khusrawi, Kristin Skare Orgeret 

Great men and torn-down statues

Alex von Tunzelmann, Michelle Tisdel

What is poetry?

Alice Oswald, Pauli Tapio, Valzhyna Mort, Zaffar Kunial, Sivert Nesbø

Adoptees

Maja Lee Langvad, Brynjulf Jung Tjønn, Anne Bitsch

The African country that defeated Europe

Maaza Mengiste, Daniel Medin

Rage in Sørfjorden

Leander Djønne, Lars Ove Seljestad, Jan H. Landro

Life in the archives

Richard Conyngham, Iain MacGregor, Michelle Tisdel

A Furious Statement

Kathrine Nedrejord, Teresa Grøtan

World on Saturday: A New World Order?

Mah-Rukh Ali, Tarjei Skirbekk, Halvor Tjønn, Kjersti Løken Stavrum

Rage and elegy

Alfred Fidjestøl. Øyvind Rimbereid, Margunn Vikingstad

Rage – fertile fury?

Mutabaruka, Nimmi Gow­rinathan, Alex von Tun­zel­mann

Choleric Quartet

Preben Jordal, Sandra Lillebø, Frode Helmich Pedersen, Eirik Vassenden

Grass Roots Rebellion

Richard Conyngham, Kristin Skare Orgeret

Freedom and literature in the Middle East

Mai Al-Nakib, Ece Temelkuran, Asieh Amini, Kari Jegerstedt

Forgotten Chapter

Petra Rautiainen, Iain MacGregor

Meet the authors of the future

Hagesalongen (The Garden Lounge)

Erik Bjerck Hagen, Erlend Liisberg

Ask the author!

Mímir Kristjánson, Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Frode Helmich Pedersen

Guerilla and feminism

Maaza Mengiste, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Cecilie Hellestveit

Teaching Nietzsche in Kuwait

Mai Al-Nakib, Anne Katrine Bang

Norwegian poetry slam championships

André Berge Frislid, Jawad Aziz, Marija Bliznac, Sara Harbo Soma, Asha Abdullahi, Ida Benonisen

Quiet Friends

Chie Ito, Rei Ito, Ben Yu

Prose Lounge: Abortion

Grethe Fatima Syéd, Kjersti Sandvik, Ole-Erik Iversen, Sandra Lillebø

Movie screening: Der Sonnenfuchs/The Sun Fox

Frank Wierke, Kjartan Hatløy

All the World’s Fairy-tales: Germany

Infuriatingly good rhetoric in Bergen

Morten Hammerborg, Alfred Fidjestøl, Preben Jordal

Furious lecture: Revenge

Pedro Carmona-Alvarez

Closing of LitFestBergen 2023: Quiz!

Forelska i Feisbukk (Fall in love with Feisbukk) – theatre premiere

Ole Henrik Risøy Solheim, Hans Sande, Julie Keyers, Jakob Helgheim

«Alle kongers tromme (The drums of all the Kings) » with Raymond and Beathe

Raymond Sereba, Beathe Frostad

Concert with Martin Hazy

Martin Hazy

Anna Fiske: Anger! Join us at the Følelsesbiblioteket (Library of emotions)

Anna Fiske

Workshops and activities

Literary City Walk

Henning Bergsvåg

Han, solo

Robin Van de Walle

No man is an island

Jørgen Watne Frydnes

All Rise

Richard Conyngham

Hjerteskog // Syđänmettä

M. Seppola Simonsen

Putting together the pieces

Martin Eia-Revheim

Norwegian guilt

Anne Bitsch

Rosarium

Charlotte Weitze

Dictionary of survival

Ingeborg Senneset

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad

Iain MacGregor

PEN postcard campaign and festival café

Send a greeting to authors, journalists and bloggers who have been imprisoned or are being threatened and persecuted worldwide.

PEN postcard campaign and festival café

Send a greeting to authors, journalists and bloggers who have been imprisoned or are being threatened and persecuted worldwide.

PEN postcard campaign and festival café

Send a greeting to authors, journalists and bloggers who have been imprisoned or are being threatened and persecuted worldwide.