LitFestBergen 2026

A Betrayal of the Welfare State?

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 13:45 - 14:30

Location: Olav H. Hauge

A Special Kind of Love

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 18:45 - 19:30

Location: Olav H. Hauge

Against Contemporary Western Beauty Standards

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 18:00 - 18:45

Location: Alver

Banned Books in the United States and Norway

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 14:30 - 15:15

Location: Auditoriet

Betrayal, Butterflies, and the Metabolism

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 20:45 - 21:30

Location: Olav H. Hauge

System Failure 95. Original Performance. Concert with John Olav Nilsen

Date: 04.02.2026

Time: 21:15 - 22:30

Location: Auditoriet

Can Norwegians not be bothered to build the country any more?

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 15:45 - 16:30

Location: Auditoriet

Care, Betrayal and What Shapes Us

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 12:30 - 13:15

Location: Olav H. Hauge

City Walk Through Literary Bergen

Henning Bergsvåg

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 12:00 - 13:30

Location: Boksalongen/Fossestova

City Walk: In the Footsteps of Jon Fosse

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 12:00 - 13:30

Location: Boksalongen/Fossestova

Closing Event for LitFestBergen 2026: Dylan’s Many Betrayals

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 17:30 - 19:00

Location:

Conversation: New Texts on Betrayal

Date: 04.02.2026

Time: 20:15 - 21:00

Location: Alver

Critics' seminar: Experimenting with your heart in your hand. Camilla Collett as a literary critic.

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 15:45 - 16:15

Location: Alver

Critics’ Seminar: Deceptive Critics

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 15:00 - 15:30

Location: Alver

Death – a Betrayal?

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 20:30 - 21:30

Location: Auditoriet

Decolonizing Literature

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 19:00 - 20:00

Location: Olav H. Hauge

DN Interview: Christian Ringnes’s Rich Life

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 15:00 - 15:45

Location: Auditoriet

DN Interview: In Her Father’s Shadow

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 17:45 - 18:30

Location: Auditoriet

DN interview: The spies among us

Date: 24.11.2025

Time: 16:15 - 17:15

Location: Auditoriet

Espionage, Betrayal, and Family Secrets

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 15:00 - 15:45

Location: Olav H. Hauge

Eve, the First Betrayer?

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 11:30 - 12:30

Location: Auditoriet

Feminist Horror

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 21:00 - 21:45

Location:

Fifteen Years Later

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 17:00 - 17:45

Location: Auditoriet

From Writing to Content Creation: Integrity at Stake?

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 15:30 - 16:00

Location: Alver

How is a Literary Prize Decided?

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 11:30 - 12:30

Location: Olav H. Hauge

How to win a literary prize

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 12:45 - 13:30

Location: Olav H. Hauge

Knut Hamsun and the Right-Wing Radicals

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 19:30 - 20:15

Location: Auditoriet

Life, Literature and Betrayal – Bergen Prison

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 16:30 - 17:15

Location: Alver

Life, Literature and Betrayal – Betanien Hospital

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 19:45 - 20:30

Location: Olav H. Hauge

Life, Literature and Betrayal – Kirkens Bymisjon

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 13:30 - 14:15

Location: Olav H. Hauge

Listen in: Young Voices on the Freedom to Read

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 12:00 - 12:45

Location: Alver

Listening Post 1: Dyondza Kwinika, Song Byeok, Amanda Marton

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 14:15 - 14:45

Location: Alver

Literary Festivals on Life and Death

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 16:45 - 17:45

Location: Alver

LitFestMini/Little Sunday: Children’s World History

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 11:15 - 12:15

Location: Alver

LitFestMini/Little Sunday: Magic Wand Workshop

Date: 08.01.2026

Time: 10:00 - 11:00

Location: Alver

Ludvig Holberg and Niels Klim’s Fantastic World

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 18:00 - 19:00

Location: Olav H. Hauge

Meet this Year’s Winner of the Ossietzky Prize

Date: 04.02.2026

Time: 19:15 - 20:45

Location: Olav H. Hauge

Murder and Mystery in Láŋtdievvá

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 16:30 - 17:15

Location: Alver

Norwegian Slam Poetry Championship

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 21:30 - 23:00

Location: Olav H. Hauge

Palestine – History, Fleeing, Land

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 19:00 - 20:00

Location: Auditoriet

PEN Postcard Campaign - Saturday

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 12:00 - 15:00

Location: Boksalongen/Fossestova

Presentation of the Gullkroken Literature Prize

Årstad vidaregåande skule

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 13:30 - 14:30

Location: Auditoriet

Prosalong: Is Weapons’ Research Unethical?

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 19:30 - 20:15

Location: Alver

Reading Banned Books Aloud

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 11:00 - 11:30

Location: Boksalongen/Fossestova

Reading Banned Books Aloud (Sunday)

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 11:00 - 11:30

Location: Boksalongen/Fossestova

Reading Banned Books Aloud (Saturday)

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 11:00 - 11:30

Location: Boksalongen/Fossestova

Reading Banned Books Aloud

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 11:00 - 11:30

Location: Boksalongen/Fossestova

Reading: New Texts on Betrayal

Date: 04.02.2026

Time: 19:15 - 20:00

Location: Alver

Satire Under Pressure

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 16:15 - 17:15

Location: Olav H. Hauge

The Authors of the Future

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 20:15 - 21:00

Location: Olav H. Hauge

The Liberation of a Woman and a Country

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 18:45 - 19:30

Location: Alver

The Librarians (documentary film)

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 12:30 - 14:02

Location: Auditoriet

The Story of Dad

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 20:30 - 21:30

Location: Auditoriet

The World on Saturday: Is Norway Ready for War?

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 13:00 - 14:00

Location: Auditoriet

Translators’ Seminar: Taube in Translation

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 21:15 - 22:00

Location: Alver

Translators’ Seminar: The Second Life of Books

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 14:45 - 15:30

Location: Olav H. Hauge

Translators’ Seminar: Translating a Messiah

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 16:15 - 17:00

Location: Olav H. Hauge

Trauma Game: Jewish Children at Summer Camp

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 20:15 - 21:00

Location: Alver

Treacherous Literary Characters: God

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 19:15 - 19:45

Location: Alver

Treacherous Literary Characters: Brutus, Cassius, Iago and Peer Gynt

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 16:15 - 16:45

Location: Olav H. Hauge

Treacherous Literary Characters: Victor Frankenstein

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 22:00 - 22:30

Location: Alver

What is home?

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 15:00 - 15:45

Location: Olav H. Hauge

When Fact Meets Fiction. Conversation With Lea Ypi

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 16:15 - 17:00

Location: Auditoriet

When Norway Fails Us Poor People

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 18:15 - 19:00

Location: Auditoriet

Witches, Gypsy Girls, Runaways and Other Fallen Women

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 17:00 - 17:45

Location: Olav H. Hauge

Whose Stories Should We Tell?

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 17:45 - 18:30

Location: Auditoriet

Writing Desire

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 22:00 - 23:00

Location: Auditoriet

Writing from a Country in the Shadows

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 19:15 - 20:00

Location: Alver

Poetic Punkgala

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 21:30 - 22:45

Location: Olav H. Hauge

When World Politics Fails a People

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 17:45 - 18:30

Location: Alver

Critics’ Seminar: On Betraying Oneself, Time and Time Again. Must the Literary Critic Choose One or the Other?

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 15:45 - 16:15

Location: Alver

Critics’ seminar: The Deceptive Nature of Literary Criticism

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 11:45 - 12:30

Location: Alver

What Does it Mean to Be Good?

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 17:30 - 18:15

Location: Olav H. Hauge

How to Build a Library (documentary film)

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 15:25 - 17:10

Location: Auditoriet

Infidelity!

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 12:30 - 13:00

Location: Alver

Novels: Distortions of History and the Present

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 19:00 - 19:45

Location: Auditoriet

Opening of LitFestBergen 2026

Date: 04.02.2026

Time: 18:00 - 19:00

Location: Auditoriet

The literary journal and the writer

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 13:15 - 14:00

Location: Alver

The Novel as Poetry

Date: 05.02.2026

Time: 20:00 - 20:30

Location: Alver

Listening Post 2: Christian Kracht and Joy Williams

Date: 08.02.2026

Time: 13:45 - 14:15

Location: Alver

Treacherous Literary Characters: “The Spotless One”

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 13:00 - 13:30

Location: Alver

“Save the Whale, Screw the Shrimp”: A Conversation with Joy Williams

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 19:45 - 20:45

Location: Alver

Korean Feminism

Date: 07.02.2026

Time: 14:00 - 14:30

Location: Alver

PEN Postcard Campaign - Friday

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 15:00 - 17:00

Location: Boksalongen/Fossestova

City Walk: In the Footsteps of Karl Ove Knausgård

Date: 06.02.2026

Time: 12:00 - 13:30

Location: Boksalongen/Fossestova

The programme for LitFestBergen 2026 will be launched on 04 December 2025