Agnes Ravatn, Morten Joachim, Erlend Liisberg.
LitFestBergen 2025
The programme for LitFestBergen 2025 will be launched on 12 December 2024

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

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: 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

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