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LitFestBergen 2025

The programme for LitFestBergen 2025 will be launched on 12 December 2024

Film Screening: Fedrelandet

Envy and Self-Deception on Stage: Agnes Ravatn’s "Gjestene"

Agnes Ravatn, Morten Joachim, Erlend Liisberg. 

Installation: RUMOUR

Li Bin Yuan

Installation: RUMOUR

Li Bin Yuan

Installation: RUMOUR

Li Bin Yuan

Live streaming of the Opening Ceremony

Lubna Jaffery, Transiteatret-Bergen, Sumaya Jirde Ali, Tishani Doshi, Sharqant, Christine Meyer, Teresa Grøtan, Hjørdis Losnedahl

Plundering Identity

Gabriela Wiener and Marjam Idriss

Like Another Galaxy

Abraham Jiménez Enoa, Roxana Sobrino Triana

PEN Postcard Campaign - Friday

PEN Postcard Campaign - Saturday

What is Cuban Dissident Literature?

Abraham Jiménez, Adri González, Jon Askeland, Signe Prøis, Roxana Sobrino Triana

Plagiarism! Cheating!

Gisle Selnes, Sandra Lillebø, Vigdis Vandvik, Magnus Thomassen

How Do Journalists Seek out the Truth?

Mark Gevisser, Jesper Hour, Esther King, Madeleine Schwartz, Marte Spurkland

Opening of LitFestBergen 2025 (SOLD OUT)

Lubna Jaffery, Transiteatret-Bergen, Sumaya Jirde Ali, Tishani Doshi, Sharqant, Christine Meyer, Teresa Grøtan, Hjørdis Losnedahl

Pal-fest! (SOLD OUT)

Mohammed Omer, Kjersti G. Berg, Rana Issa, Wesam Almadani, Sharqant, Nawar and Hiyam Sayyad, Said AY Abughazza

Poetic Punk Gala

Eira Søyseth, Johannes Anyuru, Gisela Casimiro, Einar Økland, Grethe Fatima Syed, Samuel Brzeski, Brynjulf Jung Tjønn, Sumaya Jirde Ali

CANCELLED - Truth in the Novel

Nnedi Okorafor, Julia Wiedlocha

Digging up the Truth

Felipe Celesia, Mirko Stopar

Ghosts in Norwegian Colonial History

Marjam Idriss, Kathrine Nedrejord, Teresa Grøtan

The Queer Archive, Past and Present

Mark Gevisser, Runar Jordåen, Kari Jegerstedt

The Critics' Seminar: Poetry and Truth - or the poem of the impossible

Øyvind Rimbreid

The Critics' Seminar: Poetry against language dioxide.

Rana Issa

The Critics' Seminar: Here and there and around a little bit - On translation of poetry.

Pedro Carmona-Alvarez

The Critics' Seminar: On the Incomprehensible: Poetry Criticism, Mother Tongue and Translation

Ingunn Økland

The Critics' Seminar: The Critic's Obligations and Pitfalls

Rebecka Kärde, Ingunn Økland, Margunn Vikingstad and Sumaya Jirde Ali

Imagined Memories

Chenxi Chen, Cathrine Alice Liberg, Ben Yu

Johan Harstad: Under brosteinen, stranden! (Under the cobblestones, the beach!)

Johan Harstad, Johannes Grytnes

Literary Date with Margreth Olin and John Olav Nilsen

Margreth Olin, John Olav Nilsen, Mona B. Riise

Communism, Catholicism, Capitalism and Living Corpses

Weronika Murek, Agnes Banach

LitFest Mini - Our Bodies with Anna Fiske

Anna Fiske 

AVLYST - What is African Futurism?

Nnedi Okorafor

Hamsun in Sámi

Are Tjihkkom, Vivian Aira, Beatrice Reed

The World on Saturday: NATO in a More Dangerous World

Alf Bjarne Johnsen, Kjersti Løken Stavrum

Vinduet presents: Johannes Anyuru on Truth

Johannes Anyuru

Vinduet presents: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim on Truth

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

Vinduet presents: Gabriela Wiener on Truth

Gabriela Wiener

Film Screening: El Equipo

Criminals or Lifeguards?

Kristina Quintano, Jan H. Landro

Love in a Time of Violence

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Michael Opara

Trends and Tendencies in Contemporary European Literature

Kholod Saghir, María Sheila Cremaschi, Lucie Campos, Daniel Medin 

Beautiful Gaza

Mohammed Omer Almoghayer, Kjersti G. Berg

Palmyra and the War on Cultural Heritage

Jesper Huor, Kholod Saghir

Norwegian Championship in Slam

Henrikke Meidell, Sarah Zahid

Found in translation

Johan Harstad, Agnes Banach, Julia Wiedlocha

A Life's Work in the Art of Collecting: Einar Økland

Einar Økland, Sverre Tusvik

Truth in Free Fall

Johannes Anyuru, Priya Bains

CANCELLED - A Jewish Journey

Dana Vowinckel, Fredrik Hagen

The Pink Line: Queer Rights around the World

Mark Gevisser, Kari Jegerstedt, Randi Gressgård

Wild Nature versus Cabin Building

Marit Beate Kasin, Vilde Blomhoff Pedersen

The True Body

Luca Dalen Espseth

Torment and Paradox: New Texts about Truth

Johannes Anyuru, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Priya Bains

The Unbridled Freedom of Expression!

Kjersti Løken Stavrum, Hilde Sandvik

Soirée: ‘Triggersystemet’(The Trigger system) - reading drama by Tore Vagn Lid (SOLD OUT)

Tore Vagn Lid, Bjørn Sundquist, Thea Stabell, Even Stormoen, Håkon Ramstad, Tor Christian Bleikli, Per Jørgensen, Snorre Bjerck, Hans Knut Sveen, Morten Skage, Eira Sjåstad Huse, Bodil Rørtveit, Ørjan Hartveit, Kvinnelige Studenters Sangforening ved dirigent Regine Forthun, Øystein Nesheim, Jonas Skarmark, Henrik Skauge, Øyvind Valderhaug

Authors of the Future

Sivert Nesbø

City Walk: In the Footsteps of Jon Fosse (SOLD OUT)

Margunn Vikingstad

Moses in the Bible, Quran and Tanakh

Trond Bakkevig, Joav Melchior, Senaid Kobilica, Hilde Sandvik.

City Walk in Literary Bergen (SOLD OUT)

Henning Bergsvåg

How true does Anna Fiske write for children?

Anna Fiske, Heidi Bøhagen

About Nils-Aslak Valkeapää and the book Helsing frå sameland

Kathrine Nedrejord

Into the night with Gunnhild Øyehaug and Mona B. Riise

Gunnhild Øyehaug, Mona B. Riise

Imprisoned by Literature

Eivind Riise Hauge

Solplomme (Sun Plums): musical-poetic performance

Anna Kleiva, Vilde Tuv

The truth from inside the walls

Eivind Riise Hauge

Ask the Author

Agnes Ravatn, Anna Fiske, Hjørdis Losnedahl

The dramatic history of Jerusalem: Talk by Trond Bakkevig

Trond Bakkevig

Dear Mum and Dad

Margreth Olin, Marte Spurkland

Mímir and Alcohol

Mímir Kristjánsson, Frode Helmich Pedersen

City Walk: In the Footsteps of Karl Ove Knausgård

Frode Helmich Pedersen