English programme

Wednesday 4 February 2026

Date:: 04.02.2026
Time:: 18:00 - 19:00
Location:: Alver

Live transmission of Opening of LitFestBergen 2026

with Vónbjørt Vang, Eduardo Halfon, John Olav Nilsen, Magnus Thomassen, Christine Hope and Teresa Grøtan

Date:: 04.02.2026
Time:: 18:00 - 19:00
Location:: Auditoriet

Opening of LitFestBergen 2026 (sold out)

with Vónbjørt Vang, Eduardo Halfon, John Olav Nilsen, Magnus Thomassen, Christine Hope, Trude Storheim and Teresa Grøtan

Date:: 04.02.2026
Time:: 19:15 - 20:00
Location:: Alver

Reading: New Texts on Betrayal

with Eduardo Halfon, Wanjiru Koinange and Afua Hirsch

Date:: 04.02.2026
Time:: 19:15 - 20:45
Location:: Olav H. Hauge

Meet this Year’s Winner of the Ossietzky Prize

with Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Sidsel Wold, Amund Bakke Foss, Gard Steiro, Morten Rostrup, Maja Gudim Burheim and Sami Abu Salem

Date:: 04.02.2026
Time:: 20:15 - 21:00
Location:: Alver

Conversation: New Texts on Betrayal

with Eduardo Halfon, Afua Hirsch, Wanjiru Koinange and Priya Bains

Thursday 5 February 2026

Date:: 05.02.2026
Time:: 15:45 - 16:30
Location:: Auditoriet

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

with Martin Bech Holte and Frederick Studemann

Date:: 05.02.2026
Time:: 16:45 - 17:45
Location:: Alver

Literary Festivals on Life and Death

with Yuliia Kozlovets, Wanjiru Koinange, Cristina Fuentes la Roche and Teresa Grøtan

Date:: 05.02.2026
Time:: 18:00 - 18:45
Location:: Alver

Against Contemporary Western Beauty Standards

with Afua Hirsch and Kari Jegerstedt

Friday 6 February 2026

Date:: 06.02.2026
Time:: 12:00 - 13:30
Location:: Boksalongen/Fossestova

City Walk: In the Footsteps of Karl Ove Knausgård

with Frode Helmich Pedersen

Date:: 06.02.2026
Time:: 13:15 - 14:00
Location:: Alver

The literary journal and the writer

with Esther King, Ignacia Godoy and Priya Bains

Date:: 06.02.2026
Time:: 14:15 - 14:45
Location:: Alver

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

with Dyondza Kwinika, Song Byeok and Amanda Marton

Date:: 06.02.2026
Time:: 16:15 - 17:15
Location:: Auditoriet

DN interview: The spies among us

with Shaun Walker and Simen Ekern

Date:: 06.02.2026
Time:: 17:45 - 18:30
Location:: Alver

Couples Therapy: North / South Korea

with Song Byeok, Bora Chung and Morten Traavik

Date:: 06.02.2026
Time:: 19:00 - 20:00
Location:: Olav H. Hauge

Decolonizing Literature

with Tsitsi Dangarembga, Wanjiru Koinange and Afua Hirsch

Date:: 06.02.2026
Time:: 20:15 - 21:00
Location:: Alver

Trauma Game: Jewish Children at Summer Camp

with Eduardo Halfon and Daniel Medin

Date:: 06.02.2026
Time:: 20:30 - 21:30
Location:: Auditoriet

The Story of Dad

with Kjartan Brügger Bjånesøy, Marte Michelet, Hildegunn Dale and Hjørdis Losnedal

Saturday 7 February 2026

Date:: 07.02.2026
Time:: 11:30 - 12:30
Location:: Olav H. Hauge

How is a Literary Prize Decided?

with Fred Studemann, Daniel Medin, Cristina Fuentes la Roche and Kjersti Løken Stavrum.

Date:: 07.02.2026
Time:: 11:30 - 12:30
Location:: Olav H. Hauge

How to win a literary prize

with Vónbjørt Vang, Dyondzo Kwinika and Kjersti Løken Stavrum

Date:: 07.02.2026
Time:: 12:00 - 12:45
Location:: Alver

Listen in: Young Voices on the Freedom to Read

Schools and libraries across the United States have faced a wave of book bans, affecting hundreds of titles about race, gender, sexuality, and identity – stories in which young people see themselves and others. This evening, students from United World College (UWC) and members of Norsk PEN’s Young…

Date:: 07.02.2026
Time:: 12:00 - 13:30
Location:: Boksalongen/Fossestova

City Walk: In the Footsteps of Jon Fosse

with Margunn Vikingstad

Date:: 07.02.2026
Time:: 14:00 - 14:30
Location:: Alver

Korean Feminism

with Bora Chung

Date:: 07.02.2026
Time:: 15:00 - 15:45
Location:: Olav H. Hauge

Espionage, Betrayal, and Family Secrets

with Shaun Walker

Date:: 07.02.2026
Time:: 15:45 - 17:30
Location:: Auditoriet

How to Build a Library (documentary film)

In 2017, Wanjiru Koinange and Angela Wachuka decided to restore and restock the dilapidated McMillan Memorial Library, once a whites-only library built by the British colonizers in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. Publisher Angela Wachuka and author Wanjiru Koinange face the task with great energy and…