Pandemic, people and literature (digital)

The stricter infection control measures adopted by the Norwegian authorities for the Bergen region from 7-14 February mean that LitFestBergen must cancel all physical events. All ticket purchases for physical events will be refunded. Streaming tickets costing NOK 40.00 for this event will be available at ticketco.no. A number of programme items will be shown free on YouTube.

A year has passed since the pandemic put the world out of action. What has this time been like? And what will the long-term consequences be, not least for the youngest generation? How did earlier pandemics affect society and the economy, the literature written, and the way people thought?

Social anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen, biologist Dag O Hessen, literary scholar Eirik Vassenden and journalist Hilde Sandvik discuss the consequences which the past year might have for people and nature, and how these could find literary expression. 

This event will be in Norwegian.