- 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
Non-fiction
Wednesday 4 February 2026
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 17:00 - 17:45
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Fifteen Years Later
with Gaute Børstad Skjervø and Marte Michelet
- Date:
- 05.02.2026
- Time:
- 18:00 - 18:45
- Location:
- Alver
Against Contemporary Western Beauty Standards
with Afua Hirsch and Kari Jegerstedt
- 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:
- 19:45 - 20:30
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Life, Literature and Betrayal – Betanien Hospital
with Hilde Kvalvaag
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:
- 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:
- 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 - 17:15
- Location:
- Auditoriet
DN interview: The spies among us
with Shaun Walker and Simen Ekern
- 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:
- Alver
Couples Therapy: North / South Korea
with Song Byeok, Bora Chung and Morten Traavik
- 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:
- 20:30 - 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:
- 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:
- 13:45 - 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:
- 14:00 - 14:30
- Location:
- Alver
Korean Feminism
with Bora Chung
- 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:
- 15:00 - 15:45
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Espionage, Betrayal, and Family Secrets
with Shaun Walker
- 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:
- 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…
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 16:15 - 17:15
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Satire Under Pressure
with Song Byeok, Siri Dokken and Ignacia Godoy
- 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:
- 20:30 - 21:30
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Death – a Betrayal?
with Solveig Kloppen, Kjartan Brügger Bjånesøy and Eduardo "Doddo" Andersen
Sunday 8 February 2026
- Date:
- 08.02.2026
- Time:
- 12:30 - 14:00
- Location:
- Auditoriet
The Librarians (documentary film)
with Andreas Hatlevik and Norwegian PEN
- 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