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Leonard Cohen: everyday life of the artist EXTRA (SOLD OUT)

Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Annlaug Børsheim, Rune Solberg, Kim Guldbrandsen and Inge Rypdal

Confinement as a daily experience

Bjørn Dahl, "Lars", Eivind Riise Hauge, Annette Mattsson, Ida Lødemel Tvedt

Ask the author

Siss Vik, Frode Helmich Pedersen, Jens M Johansson and Marit Eikemo

Critical Quartet: Festival special

Frode Helmich Pedersen, Ida Lødemel Tvedt, Hedley Twidle and Eirik Vassenden

Every day in a state of emergency

Nitasha Kaul and Salil Tripathi

Lectures of the day: Common sense and contempt

Anders Johansen

Lectures of the day: Hong Kong’s young demonstrators

Jason Y. Ng

Racism in the USA then and now

Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Kaja Schjerven Mollerin

Around the world in 80 minutes (SOLD OUT)

Thorvald Steen, MiRee Abrahamsen, Susanne Christensen, Nazneen Khan-Østrem

 

How babies are made

Anna Fiske

How to translate the commonplace?

Laila Stien, Synneve Sundby, Grethe Fatima Syéd

 

Law and liberty in Hong Kong and China

Antony Dapiran, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde

Lectures of the day: Life with the animals

Penny Johnson

Lectures of the day: My dear Damascus

Diana Darke

Lectures of the day: People on parade

Cathrine Baglo

Light and dark

Bjørn Samset, Sigri Sandberg, Jan H Landro

Listening post: English literature from the whole world

Tishani Doshi, Mary Ruefle, Raja Shehadeh, Jonny Steinberg

Murder in Bethlehem

Jonny Steinberg, Hedley Twidle

Open mike

Fredrik S Hagen, Khaled Khalifa

PEN postcard campaign: Opening

Salil Tripathi, Kjersti Løken Stavrum

PEN postcard campaign

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

PEN postcard campaign

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

Shaman encounter in Siberia

MiRee Abrahamsen, Jan H Landro

Substance abuse and religion

Kristine Hovda, Øystein Skjælaaen, Grethe Fatima Syéd

The meaning of Mandela

Njabulo Ndebele, Jonny Steinberg, Koleka Putuma, Teresa Grøtan

The world on Saturday: Europe, what now?

Ingrid Brekke, Nazneen Khan-Østrem, Vibeke Knoop RachlineKjersti Løken Stavrum.

This is also a refugee

Nhu Diep, Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Eivind Riise Hauge

What’s happening in Hong Kong?

Antony Dapiran, Jason Y Ng, Kjersti Løken Stavrum

Who owns nature?

Sigbjørn Skåden, Bjørn Samset, Kjersti Sandvik.

Writing course: How can memories make literature? (SOLD OUT)

Kjersti Wold

A difficult reconciliation

Harald Gaski, Njabulo Ndebele, Kristin Skare Orgeret

Coming home to your language

Risten Sokki, Sigbjørn Skåden, Harald Gaski

Lectures of the day: Eilert Sundt and ordinary life in Norway

Espen Stueland

Lectures of the day: Germany after Merkel

Ingrid Brekke

Lectures of the day: Literary voyage of discovery

Tonje Vold

Lectures of the day Terrorism’s victims

Vibeke Knoop Rachline

Life at local level

Kjersti Bjørkmo, Jens Kihl, Trond-Viggo Torgersen

Man, woman and art

Susanne Christensen, Marie Darrieussecq, Kari Jegerstedt

Mary Ruefle: a head for poetry

Mary Ruefle, Ida Lødemel Tvedt

Occupied life

Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson, Kjersti G Berg

Seminar: South African literature and literary criticism

Hedley Twidle, Tonje Vold

Blood, sweat and writing

Gloria Gervitz, Mary Ruefle and Kari Jegerstedt