- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 18:00 - 18:45
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Official Opening of LitFestBergen 2020
Welcome to the opening of LitFestBergen 2020!
Norwegian programme
Thursday 6 February 2020
- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 19:15 - 20:15
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Life at local level
Kjersti Bjørkmo, Jens Kihl, Trond-Viggo Torgersen
- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 21:00 - 22:00
- Location:
- Boksalongen/Fossestova
Open mike
Fredrik S Hagen, Khaled Khalifa
- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 21:15 - 22:15
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
This is also a refugee
Nhu Diep, Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Eivind Riise Hauge
- Date:
- 06.02.2020
- Time:
- 21:30 - 22:15
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Confusion about art and class
Jens M Johansson, Sandra Lillebø
- 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:
- 12:00 - 12:45
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Writing about life
Thorvald Steen, Berit Bareksten
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 12:15 - 12:45
- Location:
- Alver
Lectures of the day: Common sense and contempt
Anders Johansen
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 13:00 - 16:00
- Location:
- Alver
Writing course: How can memories make literature? (SOLD OUT)
Kjersti Wold
- 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:
- 15:45 - 16:15
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Lectures of the day: People on parade
Cathrine Baglo
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 16:15 - 17:00
- Location:
- Alver
What happened to mother?
Tiril Broch Aakre, Selma Lønning Aarø
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 17:30 - 18:30
- Location:
- Alver
How to translate the commonplace?
Laila Stien, Synneve Sundby, Grethe Fatima Syéd
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 18:45 - 19:15
- Location:
- Alver
Lectures of the day: Literary voyage of discovery
Tonje Vold
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 19:00 - 20:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Opening, Lydgalleriet (the Sound Gallery): Writing Game
Ingrid Berven, Cecilie Løveid
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 19:30 - 22:30
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Semi-final in Norwegian poetry slam championship
Heidi Marie Vestrheim
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 21:00 - 22:15
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Leonard Cohen: everyday life of the artist (SOLD OUT)
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Annlaug Børsheim, Rune Solberg, Kim Guldbrandsen and Inge Rypdal
- Date:
- 07.02.2020
- Time:
- 22:30 - 23:30
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Leonard Cohen: everyday life of the artist EXTRA (SOLD OUT)
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Annlaug Børsheim, Rune Solberg, Kim Guldbrandsen and Inge Rypdal
Saturday 8 February 2020
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 11:30 - 13:00
- Location:
- Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
The Taste Workshop’s “sense trail”
Can you rely on your sense of taste when you can’t see what you’re eating?
- 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:
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Who owns nature?
Sigbjørn Skåden, Bjørn Samset, Kjersti Sandvik.
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 12:00 - 12:45
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Classic literature lecture: “She gather me, the pieces I am”
Kaja Schjerven Mollerin on Toni Morrison.
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 12:00 - 12:30
- Location:
- Alver
Lectures of the day: Eilert Sundt and ordinary life in Norway
Espen Stueland
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 13:00 - 13:30
- Location:
- Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
How babies are made
Anna Fiske
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 13:15 - 14:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
CANCELLED My best decade
The event is cancelled
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 14:00 - 15:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Coming home to your language
Risten Sokki, Sigbjørn Skåden, Harald Gaski
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 14:00 - 14:30
- Location:
- Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
Seed and dream
Bjørn Ousland
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 15:00 - 16:15
- Location:
- Auditoriet
The world on Saturday: Europe, what now?
Ingrid Brekke, Nazneen Khan-Østrem, Vibeke Knoop Rachline, Kjersti Løken Stavrum.
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 15:00 - 15:30
- Location:
- Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
Commissioned work: The fight for attention
Amalie Holt Kleive
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 17:15 - 17:45
- Location:
- Alver
Lectures of the day: Germany after Merkel
Ingrid Brekke
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 19:45 - 20:45
- Location:
- Alver
Confinement as a daily experience
Bjørn Dahl, "Lars", Eivind Riise Hauge, Annette Mattsson, Ida Lødemel Tvedt
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 20:00 - 20:45
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Shaman encounter in Siberia
MiRee Abrahamsen, Jan H Landro
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 21:15 - 22:30
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Ask the author
Siss Vik, Frode Helmich Pedersen, Jens M Johansson and Marit Eikemo
- Date:
- 08.02.2020
- Time:
- 23:00 - 00:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Night chat: Lars Saabye Christensen and Alf van der Hagen
Lars Saabye Christensen. Alf van der Hagen
Sunday 9 February 2020
- 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:
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Norway: a generational portrait (CHANGED)
Lars Saabye Christensen, Selma lønning Aarø
- Date:
- 09.02.2020
- Time:
- 12:00 - 12:30
- Location:
- Alver
Lectures of the day Terrorism’s victims
Vibeke Knoop Rachline
- Date:
- 09.02.2020
- Time:
- 13:00 - 14:00
- Location:
- Alver
Light and dark
Bjørn Samset, Sigri Sandberg, Jan H Landro
- Date:
- 09.02.2020
- Time:
- 13:30 - 15:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Around the world in 80 minutes (SOLD OUT)
Thorvald Steen, MiRee Abrahamsen, Susanne Christensen, Nazneen Khan-Østrem
- 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:
- 14:15 - 15:15
- Location:
- Alver
Substance abuse and religion
Kristine Hovda, Øystein Skjælaaen, Grethe Fatima Syéd
- Date:
- 09.02.2020
- Time:
- 15:30 - 16:30
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
The short story as an everyday genre
Laila Stien, Frode Grytten, Marit Eikemo, Eivind Riise Hauge