Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
English programme 2023
How is rage translated?
Gabriela Wiener, Bente Teigen Gundersen, Helene Hovden Hareide
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
Ukraine’s neighbours
Valzhyna Mort, Tatiana Țîbuleac, Martin Paulsen
Football: Power and powerlessness
Nils Henrik Smith, Philip McNulty, Henning Bergsvåg.
Movie screening: The Writer from a Country without Bookstores
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
Life in Limbo
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Helene Hovden Hareide
Furious at mother
Tatiana Țîbuleac, Ingunn Lunde
Music and aggression
Dayal Patterson, Thomas Seltzer, Tor-Otto Mjelde
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
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
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
Rivalry on and off the pitch
Phil McNulty, Jim White, Davy Wathne
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
The African country that defeated Europe
Maaza Mengiste, Daniel Medin
Life in the archives
Richard Conyngham, Iain MacGregor, Michelle Tisdel
Rage – fertile fury?
Mutabaruka, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Alex von Tunzelmann
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
Guerilla and feminism
Maaza Mengiste, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Cecilie Hellestveit
Teaching Nietzsche in Kuwait
Mai Al-Nakib, Anne Katrine Bang
Quiet Friends
Chie Ito, Rei Ito, Ben Yu
Literary City Walk
Henning Bergsvåg
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.