- 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
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
Thursday 5 February 2026
- 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:
- 15:45 - 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:
- 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:
- Olav H. Hauge
Witches, Gypsy Girls, Runaways and Other Fallen Women
with Aina Basso and Jan H. Landro
- 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:
- 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:
- 12:00 - 13:30
- Location:
- Boksalongen/Fossestova
City Walk: In the Footsteps of Karl Ove Knausgård
with Frode Helmich Pedersen
- 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 - 17:00
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Alver
Trauma Game: Jewish Children at Summer Camp
with Eduardo Halfon and Daniel Medin
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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 - 13:30
- Location:
- Boksalongen/Fossestova
City Walk: In the Footsteps of Jon Fosse
with Margunn Vikingstad
- 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:
- 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:
- Olav H. Hauge
What Does it Mean to Be Good? (SOLD OUT)
with Vigdis Hjorth and Olaug Nilssen
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 17:45 - 18:30
- Location:
- Auditoriet
Whose Stories Should We Tell?
with Wanjiru Koinange and James Lamont
- Date:
- 07.02.2026
- Time:
- 18:45 - 19:30
- Location:
- Alver
The Liberation of a Woman and a Country
with Tsitsi Dangarembga and Kari Jegerstedt
- 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:
- 19:45 - 20:45
- Location:
- Alver
“Save the Whale, Screw the Shrimp”: A Conversation with Joy Williams
with Joy Williams, Gunnhild Øyehaug and Julia Aagenæs Wiedlocha
- 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:
- 21:00 - 21:45
- Location:
- Alver
Feminist Horror
with Bora Chung and Vibeke Koehler
- 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:
- 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:
- 13:45 - 14:15
- Location:
- Alver
Listening Post 2: Joy Williams
with Joy Williams
- Date:
- 08.02.2026
- Time:
- 14:45 - 15:30
- Location:
- Olav H. Hauge
Translators’ Seminar: The Second Life of Books
with Lea Ypi, Joy Williams and Julia Aagenæs Wiedlocha
- 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