- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 18:00 - 18:45
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Official Opening of LitFestBergen 2020
Welcome to the opening of LitFestBergen 2020!
English programme
Thursday 6 February 2020
- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 19:00 - 19:45
- Location:
- Alver
Listening post: English literature from the whole world
Tishani Doshi, Mary Ruefle, Raja Shehadeh, Jonny Steinberg
- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 19:15 - 20:15
- Location:
- Auditoriet
What’s happening in Hong Kong?
Antony Dapiran, Jason Y Ng, Kjersti Løken Stavrum
- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 20:00 - 20:45
- Location:
- Alver
Government-certified memories
Maria Stepanova, Ingunn Lunde
- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 20:30 - 21:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Lectures of the day: My dear Damascus
Diana Darke
- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 20:30 - 21:15
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Everyday life after the violence
Njabulo Ndebele, Tonje Vold
- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 21:00 - 22:00
- Location:
- Boksalongen/Fossestova
Open mike
Fredrik S Hagen, Khaled Khalifa
- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 21:30 - 22:15
- Location:
- Alver
The Ideal Norwegian State
Alt Går Bra
Friday 7 February 2020
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 09:15 - 10:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Youth programme: Growing up under apartheid
Njabulo Ndebele
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 09:15 - 11:15
- Location:
Youth programme: In other words
Doung Anwar Jahangeer
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 13:00 - 15:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Seminar: South African literature and literary criticism
Hedley Twidle, Tonje Vold
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 13:00 - 14:45
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Every day in a state of emergency
Nitasha Kaul and Salil Tripathi
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 14:00 - 16:00
- Location:
Performance: In other words (SOLD OUT)
Doung Anwar Jahangeer
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 15:00 - 15:30
- Location:
- Zinken hopp
PEN postcard campaign: Opening
Salil Tripathi, Kjersti Løken Stavrum
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 15:15 - 15:45
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Lectures of the day: Hong Kong’s young demonstrators
Jason Y. Ng
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 16:00 - 17:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Death, every day
Khaled Khalifa, Diana Darke
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 16:30 - 17:45
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Critical Quartet: Festival special
Frode Helmich Pedersen, Ida Lødemel Tvedt, Hedley Twidle and Eirik Vassenden
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 17:15 - 18:15
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
A difficult reconciliation
Harald Gaski, Njabulo Ndebele, Kristin Skare Orgeret
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 18:00 - 18:45
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Mary Ruefle: a head for poetry
Mary Ruefle, Ida Lødemel Tvedt
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 19:15 - 20:15
- Location:
- Auditoriet
The accidental dancer
Tishani Doshi, Tora de Zwart Rørholt
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 19:30 - 22:30
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Semi-final in Norwegian poetry slam championship
Heidi Marie Vestrheim
Saturday 8 February 2020
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 12:00 - 14:00
- Location:
- Zinken hopp
PEN postcard campaign
Send a greeting to authors, journalists and bloggers who have been imprisoned or are being threatened and persecuted worldwide.
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 12:45 - 13:30
- Location:
- Alver
Life is everywhere
Marie Darrieussecq, Margunn Vikingstad
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 13:00 - 15:00
- Location:
Performance: In other words (SOLD OUT)
Doung Anwar Jahangeer
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 13:00 - 13:45
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Racism in the USA then and now
Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Kaja Schjerven Mollerin
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 14:00 - 15:00
- Location:
- Alver
Occupied life
Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson, Kjersti G Berg
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 14:15 - 14:45
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Listening post: French literature
Patrick Chamoiseau, Marie Darrieussecq
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 15:15 - 15:45
- Location:
- Alver
Listening post: Arabic literature
Khaled Khalifa, Mazen Maarouf
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 15:15 - 15:45
- Location:
- Alver
Listening post: Arabic literature
Khaled Khalifa, Mazen Maarouf
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 15:15 - 16:15
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
A language of his own
Patrick Chamoiseau, Synneve Sundby
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 16:15 - 17:00
- Location:
- Alver
River and life
Esther Kinsky and Daniel Medin
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 16:30 - 17:30
- Location:
- Auditoriet
The meaning of Mandela
Njabulo Ndebele, Jonny Steinberg, Koleka Putuma, Teresa Grøtan
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 17:00 - 18:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Man, woman and art
Susanne Christensen, Marie Darrieussecq, Kari Jegerstedt
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 17:45 - 18:30
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Dreams from the war
Mazen Maarouf and Daniel Medin
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 18:00 - 18:30
- Location:
- Alver
Lectures of the day: Life with the animals
Penny Johnson
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 18:45 - 19:30
- Location:
- Alver
Murder in Bethlehem
Jonny Steinberg, Hedley Twidle
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 18:45 - 19:45
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Blood, sweat and writing
Gloria Gervitz, Mary Ruefle and Kari Jegerstedt
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 20:00 - 22:30
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Poetic punk gala
Poets from 10 nations.
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 21:15 - 22:00
- Location:
- Alver
Law and liberty in Hong Kong and China
Antony Dapiran, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde
Sunday 9 February 2020
- Date:
- 09.02.2020
- Time:
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Poetic activism
Koleka Putuma, Niillas Holmberg, Michael W Opara
- Date:
- 09.02.2020
- Time:
- 12:00 - 14:00
- Location:
- Zinken hopp
PEN postcard campaign
Send a greeting to authors, journalists and bloggers who have been imprisoned or are being threatened and persecuted worldwide.
- Date:
- 09.02.2020
- Time:
- 14:00 - 15:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Mountain and sea. Poetry from Shanghai and Bergen
Experimental poetry from Shangai and Bergen.
- Date:
- 09.02.2020
- Time:
- 15:30 - 16:15
- Location:
- Alver
A lyrical response
James Byrne, Jacob Silkstone
- Date:
- 09.02.2020
- Time:
- 16:30 - 18:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Closing performance: Throwing Voices
A genre-busting performance.