- Date:
- 08.02.2023
- Time:
- 19:30 - 20:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
The Listening Post: Literature in Spanish
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
Free entrance events
Wednesday 8 February 2023
Thursday 9 February 2023
- Date:
- 09.02.2023
- Time:
- 13:30 - 14:00
- Location:
- Alver
The Listening Post: Nordic Literature
Charlotte Weitze, Petra Rautiainen, M. Seppola Simonsen
- Date:
- 09.02.2023
- Time:
- 14:15 - 15:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Iran seen from Norway: About being an exiled author and activist
Asieh Amini, Ingeborg Kværne, Merete Røsvik
- Date:
- 09.02.2023
- Time:
- 19:00 - 20:30
- Location:
- Zinken hopp
Open mic
LitFestBergen is a festival where the familiar meets the unfamiliar, and established literature engages in a dialogue with the very latest writing. We invite new-fledged and more experienced authors from Bergen and the rest of the world to take the microphone. Use the festival’s open offer this…
Friday 10 February 2023
- Date:
- 10.02.2023
- Time:
- 12:00 - 12:20
- Location:
- Bergen Kunsthall
Kven Poetry
M. Seppola Simonsen
- Date:
- 10.02.2023
- Time:
- 13:00 - 13:30
- Location:
- Alver
The Listening Post: Mengiste, Temelkuran and Al-Nakib
Maaza Mengiste, Ece Temelkuran, Mai Al-Nakib
- Date:
- 10.02.2023
- Time:
- 14:00 - 14:45
- Location:
- Alver
Cultural diversity – fostering a sense of community in schools
Ben Yu, Leïla Rezzouk, Anna Svingen-Austestad, Linn Katrin Pilskog
- Date:
- 10.02.2023
- Time:
- 15:00 - 17:00
- Location:
- Zinken hopp
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.
Saturday 11 February 2023
- Date:
- 11.02.2023
- Time:
- 11:00 - 15:00
- Location:
- Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek
Workshops and activities
This day there will be activities and workshops that you can participate in, between the performances. Among the activities will be the opportunity to try out fun technology related activities for children in the Bærekrafslabben.
- Date:
- 11.02.2023
- Time:
- 12:00 - 15:00
- Location:
- Zinken hopp
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.
- Date:
- 11.02.2023
- Time:
- 18:00 - 19:15
- Location:
- Zinken hopp
Hagesalongen (The Garden Lounge)
Erik Bjerck Hagen, Erlend Liisberg
- Date:
- 11.02.2023
- Time:
- 18:00 - 19:00
- Location:
- Alver
Meet the authors of the future
What is happening at the Academy of Creative Writing at present? You can find out when this year’s students invite you to an hour in the performative space. The students will be reading their own texts. Come to an exclusive meeting with the authors of the future!
Sunday 12 February 2023
- Date:
- 12.02.2023
- Time:
- 12:00 - 15:00
- Location:
- Zinken hopp
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.
- Date:
- 12.02.2023
- Time:
- 14:30 - 15:30
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Closing of LitFestBergen 2023: Quiz!
We end the programme with a literature quiz which, perhaps not surprisingly, is themed “Rage in Literature”. The Quiz Masters will be the festival administration, who draw on various literary greats from all over the world. Everyone on the winning team will receive festival passes to LitFestBergen…