Margunn Vikingstad
LitFestBergen 2024

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

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

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

Closing: from dissolution to solution
Teresa Grøtan, Eirik Vassenden, Cherilyn Parsons

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.