Opening of LitFestBergen 2022 (sold out)

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Welcome to the official opening of the 2022 Bergen international literary festival for non-fiction and fiction. For the fourth year in a row, we will be launching this event with style in the auditorium at the House of Literature in Bergen. Jon Fosse has been commissioned to write an audio play for us under the title Leika leiken, which will be premiered during the ceremony.

Stig Holmås and Britta B will read. Musical contribution will be provided by Pedro Carmona-Alvarez and Christine Sandtorv.

There will be a speech by festival director Teresa Grøtan, and opening remarks by State Secretary Odin Adelsten Aunan Bohmann.