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LitFestBergen 2024

The Turbines

Cry me a river

Haemorrhage

Bioluminescence

Newsletter 7 March 2024

Sold out. City walk: Jon Fosse

Margunn Vikingstad

Sold out. City Walk: Karl Ove Knausgård

Opening of LitFestBergen 2024

Erlend O. Nødtvedt, Nomthandazo Shandu, Andisa Mpisi, Adania Shibli, Even Aleksander Hagen, Christine Meyer, Teresa Grøtan, Hjørdis Losnedahl

Live transmission: Opening of LitFestBergen 2024

Erlend O. Nødtvedt, Nomthandazo Shandu, Andisa Mpisi, Adania Shibli, Even Aleksander Hagen, Christine Meyer, Teresa Grøtan, Hjørdis Losnedahl

Illustrating a war

Nora Krug, Karin Haugen

Reading from the Trigger System

Bjørn Sundquist, Thea Stabell and a suprise guest

The many lives of Shabana Rehman

Morten Traavik, Kjersti Løken Stavrum

An introduction to Sami literature

Harald Gaski

NRK "Åpen bok"

Hear NRK's literary critics review current festival books and answer questions from listeners.

Critics Seminar: Beyond the Horizon – Criticism of Sami Contemporary Literature

Sigbjørn Skåden, Malin Nord, Ánna Márjá Guttorm Graven, Saia Marilena Stueng, Carina Beddari, Erlend Liisberg

Oil and corruption in Norway and Nigeria

Eva Joly, Nnimmo Bassey, Jostein Kobbeltvedt

Sold out. Too much trust?

Eva Joly, Torbjørn Røe Isaksen

Cancelled: The author as an activist: a conversation with Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy, Rasma Haidri 

People who struggle: a conversation with Ingvild Rishøi

Ingvild Rishøi, Eivind Riise Hauge

Winnie and Nelson: myths about a marriage

Jonny Steinberg, Ismail Mahomed

On the job with a funeral director

Tor-Håkon Gabriel Håvardsen, Trond-Viggo Torgersen

Reading Sally Rooney

Daniel Medin, Carina Beddari, Eirik Vassenden

No faith in the future

Torbjørn Røe Isaksen, Mah-Rukh Ali

NRK "Åpen bok"

Found in Translation

Gunnhild Øyehaug, Frode Grytten, Daniel Medin

What does a Nobel Prize mean?

Frode Grytten, Saia Marilena Stueng, Abduweli Ayup, Ingeborg Volan

The battle for the climate in literature

Brit Bildøen, Anne Karin Sæther

Women looking at men looking at women

Kristin Fridtun, Kari Jegerstedt

Listening Post: Martínez, Steinberg

Óscar Martínez

Prose Salon: Book burning – a European tradition

Ottar Grepstad, Gunnstein Akselberg

Creole stories

Ari Gautier, Anne K. Bang

Sold out. Munch: art, literature, madness

Ivo de Figueiredo, Karl Ove Knausgård, Frode Sandvik

Live transmission: Munch: art, literature, madness

We will be televising the event live on the big screen in Olav H. Hauge

Crime journalist in El Salvador

Óscar Martínez, Kjersti Løken Stavrum 

Sold out. A Time for Knausgård

Karl Ove Knausgård, Karin Haugen

Live transmission: A Time for Knausgård

We will be televising the event live on the big screen in Olav H. Hauge

Poetic Punk Gala

Priya Bains, Ruth Lillegraven, Meena Kandasamy, Erlend Nødtvedt, Pivinnguaq Mørch, Rasma Haidri, Nnimmo Bassey, Timimie Märak

Great drinks and good chemistry

Per Magnus Haig, Jarle Sydney Diesen

Into the night with Erlend Loe and Mona B Riise

Erlend Loe, Mona B. Riise 

The World on Saturday: Bitter friends

Kjersti Løken Stavrum, Elisabeth Eide, Gunnar M. Sørbø, Julie Wilhelmsen

The Shadow. Dance performance

Marit Loe Bjørnstad

Lunar New Year

Nhu Diep,  Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Tang Fu Kuen, Ben Wenhou Yu

Children in war

Romana Romanyshyn, Andryj Lesiv, Heidi Bøhagen

Judging a book by its cover

Elizabeth Sellevold, Simone Stibbe, Yngve Knausgård, Hjørdis Losnedahl

Collective writing

Tale Næss, Jonas Eika, Fatemeh Ekhtesari, Timimie Gassko Märak, Henning Bergsvåg

How do you write the truth about someone?

Ivo de Figueiredo, Jonny Steinberg, Katrine Sele

Pop Poetry with Mona B Riise

Mona B. Riise

Listening Post: Kit de Waal, Judith Hermann

Kit de Waal, Judith Hermann

The world's best climate stories

Kerim Nisancioglu, Siri Veland, Teresa Grøtan, Kikki Flesche Kleiven

The world's best climate stories. YouTube-stream

Kerim Nisancioglu, Siri Veland, Teresa Grøtan, Kikki Flesche Kleiven

Roads in literature. Lecture by Ruth Lillegraven

Ruth Lillegraven

Young voices from Bergen and Durban

Amanda Hersvik, Lea Bakken, Nomthandazo Shandu, Andisa Mpisi, Julia Martinčič, Rita María Muñoz Farías

The Shadow. Dance performance

Marit Loe Bjørnstad

A literary date

Herborg Kråkevik, Trond-Viggo Torgersen, Mona B Riise

New stories and powerful machines

Julia Martinčič, Sivert Nesbø

Listening post: Play the Game

Life and literature

Judith Hermann, Øystein Vidnes

Norwegian championship in Slam

Vinnarane frå distriktsfinalane, Heidi Marie Vestrheim

Erlend and Herborg in Olav’s bed

Erlend O. Nødtvedt, Herborg Kråkevik

Around the world in 80 minutes

Teresa Grøtan, Yngve Knausgård, Hjørdis Losnedahl, Maxine Padayachee

Cancelled: Hungry Barbie doll: a conversation with Kit de Waal

Kit de Waal, Katrine Sele

LitFest MINI

Andryj Lesiv, Romana Romanyshyn

A life in western Norway

Odd W. Surén, Tormod Haugland, Brit Bildøen

A pale blue dot: Lecture about photography

Eivind Senneset

Listening post 2: Play the Game

Closing: from dissolution to solution

Teresa Grøtan, Eirik Vassenden, Cherilyn Parsons

Meet the authors of the future

Podcast: Hagesalongen (The Garden Lounge)

Erik Bjerck Hagen, Erlend Liisberg

My name is Leon

Kit de Waal

Må vi slutte med olje?

Anne Karin Sæther

Diaries of war

Nora Krug

Post Mortem

Tor-Håkon Gabriel Håvardsen

PEN Norway

Norsk PEN

Stargate

Ingvild Rishøi

Ild, tenner, vann, tunge

Nhu Diep

Alt er mitt

Ruth Lillegraven

Drømmenes sykkelregister

Erlend Loe

PEN’s postcard campaign – Friday

Write a message to imprisoned and persecuted authors, journalists and bloggers worldwide.

PEN’s postcard campaign – Saturday

Write a message to imprisoned and persecuted authors, journalists and bloggers worldwide.

PEN’s postcard campaign – Sunday

Write a message to imprisoned and persecuted authors, journalists and bloggers worldwide.