Tomas Espedal, Kathrine Nedrejord, Sara Marielle Gaup, Karl Ove Knausgård, Teresa Grøtan, Siss Vik, Mona B Riise
LitFestBergen 2021
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Perth, Australia
Kim Scott, Gillian O’Shaughnessy
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Kabul, Afghanistan
Baktash Rawesh, Mujib Mehradad, Ramin Naqshbandi, Sajad Ahmad Shakeeb and Tamana Tawangar, Hamid Sakhizada
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Jaipur, India
T M Krishna, Manasi Subramaniam, Sanjoy K Roy
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Dubai, Emirates
Avni Doshi, Derek Owusu, Ahlam Bolooki
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Lagos, Nigeria
Efe Paul Azino, Bolatito Adebayo, Mobolaji Adenubi, Wana Udobang, Chiebuka Obumselu
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mercedes Halfon, Mariano Quirós, Juan Ignacio Pisano, Amalia Sanz
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Edinburgh, UK
Beldina Odenyo (Heir of the Cursed), Nadine Aisha Jassat, Leyla Josephine, Michael Pedersen, Courtney Stoddart, Roseanne Watt
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Lyon, France
Lucie Campos, Joy Sorman
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Toronto, Canada
Jillian Christmas, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Desiree McKenzie, Motion, Britta B.
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Treasure Beach, Jamaica
Ann Margaret Lim, Opal Palmer Adisa, Diana McCaulay, Earl McKenzie, Millicent A A Graham, Mutabaruka, Erna Brodber, Olive Senior, Kwame Dawes
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Berkeley, USA
Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida, Daniel Gumbiner, Cherilyn Parsons
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Travel to antiquity with Kokotopia! (cancelled)
Simon Stranger
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Janne and Muskat (cancelled)
Janne Starup Bønes
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I Am Dog
Alwynne Pritchard, Domizia Tosatto
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Official Opening of LitFestBergen 2021 (digital)
Ine Eriksen Søreide, Marte Mjøs Persen, Karoline Brændjord, Fatemeh Ekhtesari, Teresa Grøtan
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What will happen to the world?
Dag O. Hessen
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Nature journal
Dara McAnulty
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Wonderful world
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
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A guide to the climate rebellion
Gaute Eiterjord
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What is a novel? (postponed to autumn 2021)
Sandra Lillebø, Ingunn Økland, Eirik Vassenden, Tore Renberg
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Cross-generation conversation II: Natural pleasures (digital)
Dara McAnulty, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Kari Jegerstedt
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Poet who will not be silenced
Fatemeh Ekhtesari
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Young voices
Nancy Herz
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How does somebody become evil?
Simon Stranger
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What is extremism?
Kristian Bjørkelo
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Natural wonders II (cancelled)
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
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City walk: Torborg Nedreaas (postponed until 2022)
Jo Gjerstad, Grethe Fatima Syéd
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Is the road the goal? (digital)
Ulrik Eriksen, Hans K. Mjelva, Siddharth Sareen
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Flight, prison, freedom (digital)
Behrouz Boochani, Kristina Quintano, Ann-Magrit Austenå
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From the young (digital)
Gaute Eiterjord
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Cross-generation conversation IV: Faithful or free? (digital)
Toril Hanssen, Preben Jordal, Margunn Vikingstad
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Meeting with Nordic winners (digital)
Monika Fagerholm, Jenny Lucander, Jens Mattsson, Jan H. Landro
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Norwegian, Swede, Dane – festival special (digital)
Hilde Sandvik, Åsa Linderborg, Hassan Preisler
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Racism’s heart (digital)
Jason Reynolds, Nazneen Khan-Østrem
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Poetic punk gala (postponed to autumn 2021)
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The generation which blazed the trail (digital)
Shazia Majid, Hilde Danielsen
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UN security council and Norwegian pride (digital)
Tove Gravdal
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22 July a decade later
Ingvild Folkvord
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We share a sense of humour, anyway (digital)
Olaug Nilssen, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Eivind Riise Hauge
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Grandchildren’s view of the Second World War (digital)
Simon Stranger, Marte Michelet, Guri Hjeltnes
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Prose lounge: Generational life mastery (cancelled)
Grethe Fatima Syéd, Ole Jacob Madsen
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Closing performance: I am Dog (digital)
Alwynne Pritchard, Domizia Tosatto
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I am Dog – film
Alwynne Pritchard, Domizia Tosatto
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Literature Live Around the World
Mona B. Riise, Siss Vik
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Close curtains. Open life.
Maria Navarro Skaranger
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A life behind bars
Eivind Riise Hauge
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The most difficult surname in the community
Yohan Shanmugaratnam
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Losing yourself
Kathrine Nedrejord
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Young black lives mean something
Jason Reynolds
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My generation: unveiling the best essay (digital)
Sandra Lillebø, Sigrid Moldestad, Teresa Grøtan
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Pandemic, people and literature (digital)
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Dag O. Hessen, Eirik Vassenden, Hilde Sandvik
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Open mike (postponed)
Fredrik Stenhjem Hagen
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The mundane and the mystical: A conversation with Karl Ove Knausgård (digital)
Karl Ove Knausgård, Claire Armitstead
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Natural wonders I (cancelled)
Dag O. Hessen
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Cross-generation conversation I: newspaper columnists then and now (digital)
Sven Egil Omdal, Eirin Eikefjord, Jens Kihl
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Semi-final in Norwegian poetry slam championship (cancelled)
Heidi Marie Vestrheim
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Beloved sister, beloved brother (postponed until autumn 2021)
Maria Navarro Skaranger, Odd Eirik Sætre Færevåg, Jan H. Landro
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Cross-generation conversation III: Can everyone say what they like? (digital)
Kjersti Løken Stavrum, Nancy Herz, Mohamed Abdi
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What happened, Tollak? (postponed until autumn 2021)
Tore Renberg, Inger Merete Hobbelstad
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The world on Saturday: USA – great again? (digital)
Tove Gravdal, Jan Arild Snoen, Hans Høeg, Tomm Kristiansen
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Reasonable doubt (digital)
Ane Hem, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde
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The most difficult surname in the community (postponed until autumn 2021)
Yohan Shanmugaratnam, Nazneen Khan-Østrem
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Cross-generation conversation V: Sami history lesson (postponed)
Mary Ailonieida Sombán Mari, Kathrine Nedrejord, Tomm Kristiansen
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Ask the author (cancelled)
Tore Renberg, Olaug Nilssen, Frode Helmich Pedersen
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Jorda rundt på 80 minutt (cancelled))
Gunnar M. Sørbø, Ina Strøm, Hans Høeg, Chris Tvedt
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The oldest young boy in Bergen town (digital)
Sondre Lerche, Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
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Night chat: Cecilie Løveid and Alf van der Hagen (postponed until autumn 2021)
Cecilie Løveid, Alf van der Hagen