Kjartan Hatløy, Arve Henriksen, Mutabaruka, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Reny Marie Gaasand Folgerø, Eduardo Andersen, Teresa Grøtan, Hjørdis Losnedahl
LitFestBergen 2023

Fom identity to rage – 5 years of LitFestBergen
Teresa Grøtan, Kjersti Løken Stavrum, Jens Kihl, Sandra Lillebø

The Listening Post: Literature in Spanish
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel

How is rage translated?
Gabriela Wiener, Bente Teigen Gundersen, Helene Hovden Hareide

The Listening Post: Nordic Literature
Charlotte Weitze, Petra Rautiainen, M. Seppola Simonsen

Iran seen from Norway: About being an exiled author and activist
Asieh Amini, Ingeborg Kværne, Merete Røsvik

New Norwegian voices
Sandra Lillebø, Monica Isakstuen, Eivind Riise Hauge, Daniel Medin

The American Nightmare [sold out]
Thomas Seltzer, Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen

Ukraine’s neighbours
Valzhyna Mort, Tatiana Țîbuleac, Martin Paulsen

The untamed child [sold out]
Matias Faldbakken, Marit Eikemo

Football: Power and powerlessness
Nils Henrik Smith, Philip McNulty, Henning Bergsvåg.

People as nature
Charlotte Weitze, Anne Karin Sæther

Movie screening: The Writer from a Country without Bookstores
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel

Winner meeting: Nora Dåsnes
Nora Dåsnes, Robin van de Walle

Furious lecture: Language
Kristin Fridtun

Life in Limbo
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Helene Hovden Hareide

Furious Father
Martin Eia-Revheim, Clemens Saers, Kjersti Mjør

Furious at mother
Tatiana Țîbuleac, Ingunn Lunde

Music and aggression
Dayal Patterson, Thomas Seltzer, Tor-Otto Mjelde

Rage in life and literature
Lars Fr. Svendsen, Monica Isakstuen, Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Eivind Riise Hauge

Relaxation
Kjartan Hatløy, Arve Henriksen, Thomas T. Dahl, Terje Isungset

Kven Poetry
M. Seppola Simonsen

Furious lecture: Rage
Lars Fr. Svendsen

The Battle of Stalingrad
Iain MacGregor, Martin Paulsen

The Listening Post: Mengiste, Temelkuran and Al-Nakib
Maaza Mengiste, Ece Temelkuran, Mai Al-Nakib

The familiar unknown
Zaffar Kunial, Rasma Haidri

Cultural diversity – fostering a sense of community in schools
Ben Yu, Leïla Rezzouk, Anna Svingen-Austestad, Linn Katrin Pilskog

The radicalised
Anne Bitsch, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Øyvind Strømmen

Strife and solidarity
Jonas Bals, Mímir Kristjánsson

Withstanding the storm
Ingeborg Senneset, Hilde Sandvik

Furious lecture: School
Clemens Saers

Prose Lounge: Typos!
Kristin Fridtun, Gunnstein Akselberg, Jan H. Landro

Rage as a destructive force
Ece Temelkuran, Kjersti Løken Stavrum

The Iliad without anger
Alice Oswald, Janne Stigen Drangsholt

What is literary quality?
Nick Barley, Lola Shoneyin, Michael Kelleher, Eirik Vassenden

Getting the rage down on paper
Annette Mattsson, Eivind Riise Hauge

Should rage be condoned?
Hilde Kvalvaag, Norun Haugen, Hilde Sandvik

Poetic Punk Gala [sold out]
Alice Oswald, Brynjulf Jung Tjønn, Maja Lee Langvad, Øyvind Rimbereid, Valzhyna Mort, Eira Søyseth, Mutabaruka, Zaffar Kunial, Pauli Tapio, Sarah Zahid,Henning Bergsvåg

Literary date
Lars Petter Hagen, Solrun Toft Iversen, Trond-Viggo Torgersen

Rivalry on and off the pitch
Phil McNulty, Jim White, Davy Wathne

Conversation in the night: Per Petterson
Per Petterson, Alf van der Hagen

My language is my bird
Masoma Kawsary, Parwana Fayyaz, Nasrin Khusrawi, Kristin Skare Orgeret

Great men and torn-down statues
Alex von Tunzelmann, Michelle Tisdel

What is poetry?
Alice Oswald, Pauli Tapio, Valzhyna Mort, Zaffar Kunial, Sivert Nesbø

Adoptees
Maja Lee Langvad, Brynjulf Jung Tjønn, Anne Bitsch

The African country that defeated Europe
Maaza Mengiste, Daniel Medin

Rage in Sørfjorden
Leander Djønne, Lars Ove Seljestad, Jan H. Landro

Life in the archives
Richard Conyngham, Iain MacGregor, Michelle Tisdel

A Furious Statement
Kathrine Nedrejord, Teresa Grøtan

World on Saturday: A New World Order?
Mah-Rukh Ali, Tarjei Skirbekk, Halvor Tjønn, Kjersti Løken Stavrum

Rage and elegy
Alfred Fidjestøl. Øyvind Rimbereid, Margunn Vikingstad

Rage – fertile fury?
Mutabaruka, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Alex von Tunzelmann

Choleric Quartet
Preben Jordal, Sandra Lillebø, Frode Helmich Pedersen, Eirik Vassenden

Grass Roots Rebellion
Richard Conyngham, Kristin Skare Orgeret

Freedom and literature in the Middle East
Mai Al-Nakib, Ece Temelkuran, Asieh Amini, Kari Jegerstedt

Forgotten Chapter
Petra Rautiainen, Iain MacGregor

Hagesalongen (The Garden Lounge)
Erik Bjerck Hagen, Erlend Liisberg

Ask the author!
Mímir Kristjánson, Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Frode Helmich Pedersen

Guerilla and feminism
Maaza Mengiste, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Cecilie Hellestveit

Teaching Nietzsche in Kuwait
Mai Al-Nakib, Anne Katrine Bang

Norwegian poetry slam championships
André Berge Frislid, Jawad Aziz, Marija Bliznac, Sara Harbo Soma, Asha Abdullahi, Ida Benonisen

Quiet Friends
Chie Ito, Rei Ito, Ben Yu

Prose Lounge: Abortion
Grethe Fatima Syéd, Kjersti Sandvik, Ole-Erik Iversen, Sandra Lillebø

Movie screening: Der Sonnenfuchs/The Sun Fox
Frank Wierke, Kjartan Hatløy

Infuriatingly good rhetoric in Bergen
Morten Hammerborg, Alfred Fidjestøl, Preben Jordal

Furious lecture: Revenge
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez

Forelska i Feisbukk (Fall in love with Feisbukk) – theatre premiere
Ole Henrik Risøy Solheim, Hans Sande, Julie Keyers, Jakob Helgheim

«Alle kongers tromme (The drums of all the Kings) » with Raymond and Beathe
Raymond Sereba, Beathe Frostad

Concert with Martin Hazy
Martin Hazy

Literary City Walk
Henning Bergsvåg

Han, solo
Robin Van de Walle

No man is an island
Jørgen Watne Frydnes

All Rise
Richard Conyngham

Hjerteskog // Syđänmettä
M. Seppola Simonsen

Putting together the pieces
Martin Eia-Revheim

Norwegian guilt
Anne Bitsch

Rosarium
Charlotte Weitze

Dictionary of survival
Ingeborg Senneset

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad
Iain MacGregor

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

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

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