- Date:
- 04.02.2026
- Time:
- 21:15 - 22:15
- Location:
- Auditoriet
System Failure 95. Original Performance. Concert with John Olav Nilsen (SOLD OUT)
with John Olav Nilsen
Norwegian programme
Wednesday 4 February 2026
Thursday 5 February 2026
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 11:00 - 11:45
- Location:
- Alver
Critics’ seminar: The Deceptive Nature of Literary Criticism
with Tue Andersen Nexø
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 12:00 - 12:30
- Location:
- Alver
Critics’ Seminar: On Betraying Oneself, Time and Time Again. Must the Literary Critic Choose One or the Other?
with Mari Grydeland
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 13:30 - 14:30
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Presentation of the Gullkroken Literature Prize
with Årstad vidaregåande skule
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 15:00 - 15:30
- Location:
- Alver
Critics’ Seminar: Deceptive Critics
with Frode Helmich Pedersen
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 15:45 - 16:15
- Location:
- Alver
Critics' seminar: Experimenting with your heart in your hand. Camilla Collett as a literary critic.
with Tone Selboe
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 17:00 - 17:45
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Witches, Gypsy Girls, Runaways and Other Fallen Women
with Aina Basso and Jan H. Landro
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 17:00 - 17:45
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Fifteen Years Later
with Gaute Børstad Skjervø and Marte Michelet
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 18:00 - 19:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Ludvig Holberg and Niels Klim’s Fantastic World
with Jørgen Sejersted, Tue Andersen Nexø, Silja Leifsdottir and Gunnstein Akselberg
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 18:15 - 19:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
When Norway Fails Us Poor People
with Anna-Sabina Soggiu and Marte Michelet
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 19:15 - 19:45
- Location:
- Alver
Treacherous Literary Characters: God
with Olaug Nilssen
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 19:30 - 20:15
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Knut Hamsun and the Right-Wing Radicals
with Hedvig Moe, Carline Tromp and Eirik Vassenden
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 19:45 - 20:30
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Life, Literature and Betrayal – Betanien Hospital
with Hilde Kvalvaag
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 20:00 - 20:30
- Location:
- Alver
The Novel as Poetry
with Hanne Ørstavik
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 20:45 - 21:30
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Betrayal, Butterflies, and the Metabolism
with Mette Moestrup, Eira Søyseth and Amanda Torsteinsdatter Hersvik
Friday 6 February 2026
- Date:
- 06.02.2026
- Time:
- 12:30 - 13:00
- Location:
- Alver
Infidelity!
with Selma Lønning Aarø
- Date:
- 06.02.2026
- Time:
- 15:00 - 15:45
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
What is home?
with Yohan Shanmugaratnam and Rima Iraki
- Date:
- 06.02.2026
- Time:
- 15:00 - 15:45
- Location:
- Auditoriet
DN Interview: Christian Ringnes’s Rich Life
with Christian Ringnes and Jorun Sofie Fallmo Aartun
- Date:
- 06.02.2026
- Time:
- 16:15 - 17:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Translators’ Seminar: Translating a Messiah
with Jan Henrik Swahn, Julia Aagenæs Wiedlocha and Agnes Banach
- Date:
- 06.02.2026
- Time:
- 16:30 - 17:15
- Location:
- Alver
Life, Literature and Betrayal – Bergen Prison
with Eivind Riise Hauge
- Date:
- 06.02.2026
- Time:
- 17:45 - 18:30
- Location:
- Auditoriet
DN Interview: In Her Father’s Shadow
with Marte Michelet and Simen Ekern
- Date:
- 06.02.2026
- Time:
- 19:00 - 20:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Palestine – History, Fleeing, Land
with Rima Iraki and Frode Bjerkestrand
- Date:
- 06.02.2026
- Time:
- 19:15 - 20:00
- Location:
- Alver
Writing from a Country in the Shadows
with Gunel Movlud and Amund Trellevik
- Date:
- 06.02.2026
- Time:
- 20:15 - 21:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
The Authors of the Future
with Sivert Nesbø
- 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
- Date:
- 06.02.2026
- Time:
- 21:15 - 22:00
- Location:
- Alver
Translators’ Seminar: Taube in Translation
with Johannes Refsdal
- Date:
- 06.02.2026
- Time:
- 21:30 - 23:00
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Norwegian Slam Poetry Championship
with Henrikke Meidell
Saturday 7 February 2026
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 11:30 - 12:30
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Eve, the First Betrayer?
with Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Anne Katrine Bang and Preben Jordal
- 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:
- 13:00 - 13:30
- Location:
- Alver
Treacherous Literary Characters: “The Spotless One”
with Jan H. Landro
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 13:45 - 14:30
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
A Betrayal of the Welfare State?
with Tue Andersen Nexø, Christine Hamm, Ola Morris Innset and Eirik Vassenden
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 14:15 - 15:15
- Location:
- Auditoriet
The World on Saturday: Is Norway Ready for War?
with Eirik Kristoffersen, Unni Eikeseth and Kjersti Løken Stavrum
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 15:30 - 16:00
- Location:
- Alver
From Writing to Content Creation: Integrity at Stake?
with Silje Bekeng-Flemmen
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 16:30 - 17:15
- Location:
- Alver
Murder and Mystery in Láŋtdievvá
with Sigbjørn Skåden and Katarina Dorothea Isaksen
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 17:30 - 18:15
- Location:
- Alver
Prosalong: Is Weapons’ Research Unethical?
with Unni Eikeseth and Hege Cathrine Finholt
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 17:30 - 18:15
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
What Does it Mean to Be Good? (SOLD OUT)
with Vigdis Hjorth and Olaug Nilssen
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 18:45 - 19:30
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
A Special Kind of Love
with Hanne Ørstavik and Margunn Vikingstad
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 19:00 - 19:45
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Novels: Distortions of History and the Present (CANCELLED)
with Christian Kracht and Wolfgang Hottner
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 20:15 - 21:45
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Poetic Punkgala
with Eira Søyseth, Vónbjørt Vang, Gunel Movlud, Thalente Ndlovu, Mette Moestrup, Abduweli Ayup, Mirigul Mosa, Hildegunn Dale and Michael Opara
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 20:30 - 21:30
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Death – a Betrayal?
with Solveig Kloppen, Kjartan Brügger Bjånesøy and Eduardo "Doddo" Andersen
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 22:00 - 23:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Writing Desire
with April Alexandersdottir, Vigdis Hjorth and Selma Lønning Aarø
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 22:00 - 22:30
- Location:
- Alver
Treacherous Literary Characters: Victor Frankenstein
with Vónbjørt Vang
Sunday 8 February 2026
- Date:
- 08.02.2026
- Time:
- 10:00 - 11:00
- Location:
- Alver
LitFestMini/Little Sunday: Magic Wand Workshop
with Silje Bekeng-Flemmen
- Date:
- 08.02.2026
- Time:
- 11:15 - 11:45
- Location:
- Alver
LitFestMini/Little Sunday: Children’s World History
with Erna Osland and Victoria Sandøy
- Date:
- 08.02.2026
- Time:
- 12:30 - 13:15
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Care, Betrayal and What Shapes Us
with Sandra Lillebø and Olaug Nilssen
- Date:
- 08.02.2026
- Time:
- 13:30 - 14:15
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Life, Literature and Betrayal – Kirkens Bymisjon
with Vibeke Koehler
- Date:
- 08.02.2026
- Time:
- 14:30 - 15:15
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Banned Books in the United States and Norway
with Siv Christine Bjørang Jørstad, school librarian, Julie Andersland, library manager at Bergen Public Library, Ine Marie Kørra, Andreas Hatlevik,and Norwegian PEN
- Date:
- 08.02.2026
- Time:
- 16:15 - 16:45
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Treacherous Literary Characters: Brutus, Cassius, Iago and Peer Gynt
with Frode Helmich Pedersen
- Date:
- 08.02.2026
- Time:
- 16:15 - 17:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
When Fact Meets Fiction. Conversation With Lea Ypi
with Lea Ypi and Frøy Gudbrandsen
- Date:
- 08.02.2026
- Time:
- 17:30 - 19:00
- Location:
Closing Event for LitFestBergen 2026: Dylan’s Many Betrayals
with Pedro Carmona-Alvarez