Nominated for cultural event of the year award
LitFestBergen is nominated for the Bergen Awards 2020.
Opening speech 2020: the everyday
What is this “grey quiet day” that Olav H Hauge wrote about? Read festival director Teresa Grøtan's opening speech.
Nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize
Read two of the poems from Niillas Holmberg's nominated collection Juolgevuođđu here.
LitFestBergen 2020
Texts
Imagining the ordinary
"The novel The Cry of Winnie Mandela by Njabulo S Ndebele explores the meaning of South Africa itself", writes associate professor Tonje Vold.
1994: A love poem
"You don't know fuckery / until you have been loved like Mandela." Read Koleka Putuma's poem.
My boy
"He might have passed for a Cupid, were it not for the long socks." Extract from a book by Maria Stepanova.
Confessions
"I had read popular fiction and not Dostoevsky for a reason: to protect my unique genius." Read Gunnhild Øyehaug's humorous text.
Occupation domesticated
"Everyday returns after violence like the rain after droughts", Ramallah residents and authors Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson write in this dialogue-essay.
A blank page. A dark stage
Festival author and dancer Tishani Doshi on the fearlessness required in both writing and dancing.
Poems by Niillas Holmberg
Read two poems from Niillas Holmberg's Nordic Council Literature Prize nominated collection Juolgevuođđu.
