Opening of LitFestBergen 2023 (sold out)

Welcome to the official opening of the Fifth Bergen International Literary Festival for Non-Fiction and Fiction. Rage – the theme of the festival – will set the tone at the House of Literature.

There will be the artistic contributions of poet Kjartan Hatløy and musician Arve Henriksen, dub poet Mutabaruka from Jamaica, author Gunnhild Øyehaug, who has written a greeting for five-year-old festival, and actor Reny Marie Gaasand Folgerø, who presents a raging mono­logue from the festival author Monica Isakstuen. There will be speeches from the Commissioner for Culture Eduardo Andersen and festival director Teresa Grøtan. Presenter: Hjørdis Losnedahl.