Tomm Kristiansen
Non-fiction
Here is a list of the events with non-fiction authors.
Welcome to the Bergen International Literary Festival, 14-17 February at Litteraturhuset i Bergen (the Bergen House of Literature).
Around the world in 80 minutes
Marta Breen Tomas Espedal, Hilde Kvalvaag, Morten Traavik, Sigrun Slapgard
Coffee cups and crucifixes
Erlend Berge
FILM: Vida y ficción
Edurne Portela, José Ovejero
Nature and literature
Reidar Müller, Andreas Tjernshaugen, Kjersti Sandvik.
Norwegian grief
Aage Storm Borchgrevink, Brit Bildøen, Cecilie Løveid, Anne Gjelsvik.
Norwegian identity and cultural conflict
Kaj Skagen
PEN postcard campaign
Send a greeting to authors, journalists and bloggers who have been imprisoned or are being threatened and persecuted worldwide.
The art of being different
Jan Grue, Nell Irvin Painter, Per Buvik
A true story
Alisa Ganieva, Ingunn Lunde.
A white history
Nell Irvin Painter, Kristina Leganger Iversen.
Balls, chicks and crones
Helene Uri
Lillelørdag (Children’s Saturday): Chemistry’s magical world
Alexander H Sandtorv
Everyday life
Camara Lundestad Joof, Kristina Leganger Iversen
Evil in literature
Hakan Günday, Helon Habila, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Gisle Selnes
Listening Post: Günday, Habila and Vásquez
Hakan Günday, Helon Habila, Juan Gabriel Vásquez
New language, new identity
Xiaolu Guo, Peter Nielsen
Non-binding contracts
Ane Farsethås, Dubravka Ugrešić, Kari Jegerstedt.
PEN postcard campaign
Send a greeting to authors, journalists and bloggers who have been imprisoned or are being threatened and persecuted worldwide.
Terrorism took our children
Helon Habila, Brit Bildøen, Aage Storm Borchgrevink.
The explorer
Carsten Jensen, Jan H. Landro
The world on Saturday: extreme national leaders
Thor Steinhovden, Ina Tin, Morten Traavik, Tomm Kristiansen.
What is literary quality?
Ane Farsethås, Jennifer Makumbi, Kari Marstein, Daniel Medin, Peter Nielsen, Eirik Vassenden.
Geniuses, groupies, muses and men
Marta Breen
Listening Post: Birgisson, Slapgard, Vatne
Bergsveinn Birgisson, Sigrun Slapgard, Bjørn Vatne
PEN postcard campaign
Asieh Amini, Mansur Rajih
Seminar on French literature and criticism
with Raphaëlle Leyris (Le Monde)
Translating sorrow
James E Montgomery, Daniel Medin
What are we doing with the billions?
Camilla Bakken Øvald, Torfinn Harding
What he said
Angela Saini, Helene Uri, Kari Jegerstedt.
World anxiety
Heinz Bude
World emotions
Heinz Bude
East versus west – which is best?
Frode Helmich Pedersen, Siss Vik, Trond-Viggo Torgersen
Identity and populism
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Carsten Jensen, Jonas Bals.
Premiers: three texts on identity
Linnea Axelsson, Hissa Hilal, Nell Irvin Painter.
Sea and love
Yann Queffélec, Per Anders Todal, Margunn Vikingstad.
The unbearable whiteness of being
Kei Miller, Angela Saini, Tonje Vold