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Wednesday 10 February 2021
Official Opening of LitFestBergen 2021 (digital)
Ine Eriksen Søreide, Marte Mjøs Persen, Karoline Brændjord, Fatemeh Ekhtesari, Teresa Grøtan
My generation: unveiling the best essay (digital)
Sandra Lillebø, Sigrid Moldestad, Teresa Grøtan
Pandemic, people and literature (digital)
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Dag O. Hessen, Eirik Vassenden, Hilde Sandvik
Open mike (postponed)
Fredrik Stenhjem Hagen
The mundane and the mystical: A conversation with Karl Ove Knausgård (digital)
Karl Ove Knausgård, Claire Armitstead
Thursday 11 February 2021
Natural wonders I (cancelled)
Dag O. Hessen
Cross-generation conversation I: newspaper columnists then and now (digital)
Sven Egil Omdal, Eirin Eikefjord, Jens Kihl
What is a novel? (postponed to autumn 2021)
Sandra Lillebø, Ingunn Økland, Eirik Vassenden, Tore Renberg
Cross-generation conversation II: Natural pleasures (digital)
Dara McAnulty, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Kari Jegerstedt
Semi-final in Norwegian poetry slam championship (cancelled)
Heidi Marie Vestrheim
Beloved sister, beloved brother (postponed until autumn 2021)
Maria Navarro Skaranger, Odd Eirik Sætre Færevåg, Jan H. Landro
Friday 12 February 2021
Natural wonders II (cancelled)
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Literature Live Around the World
Mona B. Riise, Siss Vik
Bergen, Norway
Tomas Espedal, Kathrine Nedrejord, Sara Marielle Gaup, Karl Ove Knausgård, Teresa Grøtan, Siss Vik, Mona B Riise
Perth, Australia
Kim Scott, Gillian O’Shaughnessy
Kabul, Afghanistan
Baktash Rawesh, Mujib Mehradad, Ramin Naqshbandi, Sajad Ahmad Shakeeb and Tamana Tawangar, Hamid Sakhizada
Jaipur, India
T M Krishna, Manasi Subramaniam, Sanjoy K Roy
Dubai, Emirates
Avni Doshi, Derek Owusu, Ahlam Bolooki
Lagos, Nigeria
Efe Paul Azino, Bolatito Adebayo, Mobolaji Adenubi, Wana Udobang, Chiebuka Obumselu
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mercedes Halfon, Mariano Quirós, Juan Ignacio Pisano, Amalia Sanz
Edinburgh, UK
Beldina Odenyo (Heir of the Cursed), Nadine Aisha Jassat, Leyla Josephine, Michael Pedersen, Courtney Stoddart, Roseanne Watt
Lyon, France
Lucie Campos, Joy Sorman
Berkeley, USA
Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida, Daniel Gumbiner, Cherilyn Parsons
Toronto, Canada
Jillian Christmas, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Desiree McKenzie, Motion, Britta B.
Treasure Beach, Jamaica
Ann Margaret Lim, Opal Palmer Adisa, Diana McCaulay, Earl McKenzie, Millicent A A Graham, Mutabaruka, Erna Brodber, Olive Senior, Kwame Dawes
City walk: Torborg Nedreaas (postponed until 2022)
Jo Gjerstad, Grethe Fatima Syéd
Cross-generation conversation III: Can everyone say what they like? (digital)
Kjersti Løken Stavrum, Nancy Herz, Mohamed Abdi
What happened, Tollak? (postponed until autumn 2021)
Tore Renberg, Inger Merete Hobbelstad
Saturday 13 February 2021
Is the road the goal? (digital)
Ulrik Eriksen, Hans K. Mjelva, Siddharth Sareen
Flight, prison, freedom (digital)
Behrouz Boochani, Kristina Quintano, Ann-Magrit Austenå
The world on Saturday: USA – great again? (digital)
Tove Gravdal, Jan Arild Snoen, Hans Høeg, Tomm Kristiansen
From the young (digital)
Gaute Eiterjord
Reasonable doubt (digital)
Ane Hem, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde
Cross-generation conversation IV: Faithful or free? (digital)
Toril Hanssen, Preben Jordal, Margunn Vikingstad
The most difficult surname in the community (postponed until autumn 2021)
Yohan Shanmugaratnam, Nazneen Khan-Østrem
Meeting with Nordic winners (digital)
Monika Fagerholm, Jenny Lucander, Jens Mattsson, Jan H. Landro
Cross-generation conversation V: Sami history lesson (postponed)
Mary Ailonieida Sombán Mari, Kathrine Nedrejord, Tomm Kristiansen
Norwegian, Swede, Dane – festival special (digital)
Hilde Sandvik, Åsa Linderborg, Hassan Preisler
Racism’s heart (digital)
Jason Reynolds, Nazneen Khan-Østrem
The oldest young boy in Bergen town (digital)
Sondre Lerche, Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
Poetic punk gala (postponed to autumn 2021)
Ask the author (cancelled)
Tore Renberg, Olaug Nilssen, Frode Helmich Pedersen
Night chat: Cecilie Løveid and Alf van der Hagen (postponed until autumn 2021)
Cecilie Løveid, Alf van der Hagen
Sunday 14 February 2021
The generation which blazed the trail (digital)
Shazia Majid, Hilde Danielsen
UN security council and Norwegian pride (digital)
Tove Gravdal
22 July a decade later
Ingvild Folkvord
Jorda rundt på 80 minutt (cancelled))
Gunnar M. Sørbø, Ina Strøm, Hans Høeg, Chris Tvedt
We share a sense of humour, anyway (digital)
Olaug Nilssen, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Eivind Riise Hauge
Grandchildren’s view of the Second World War (digital)
Simon Stranger, Marte Michelet, Guri Hjeltnes
Prose lounge: Generational life mastery (cancelled)
Grethe Fatima Syéd, Ole Jacob Madsen
Closing performance: I am Dog (digital)
Alwynne Pritchard, Domizia Tosatto
I am Dog – film
Alwynne Pritchard, Domizia Tosatto
Literature Live Around the World
Literature Live Around the World
Mona B. Riise, Siss Vik
Bergen, Norway
Tomas Espedal, Kathrine Nedrejord, Sara Marielle Gaup, Karl Ove Knausgård, Teresa Grøtan, Siss Vik, Mona B Riise
Perth, Australia
Kim Scott, Gillian O’Shaughnessy
Kabul, Afghanistan
Baktash Rawesh, Mujib Mehradad, Ramin Naqshbandi, Sajad Ahmad Shakeeb and Tamana Tawangar, Hamid Sakhizada
Jaipur, India
T M Krishna, Manasi Subramaniam, Sanjoy K Roy
Dubai, Emirates
Avni Doshi, Derek Owusu, Ahlam Bolooki
Lagos, Nigeria
Efe Paul Azino, Bolatito Adebayo, Mobolaji Adenubi, Wana Udobang, Chiebuka Obumselu
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mercedes Halfon, Mariano Quirós, Juan Ignacio Pisano, Amalia Sanz
Edinburgh, UK
Beldina Odenyo (Heir of the Cursed), Nadine Aisha Jassat, Leyla Josephine, Michael Pedersen, Courtney Stoddart, Roseanne Watt
Lyon, France
Lucie Campos, Joy Sorman
Berkeley, USA
Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida, Daniel Gumbiner, Cherilyn Parsons
Toronto, Canada
Jillian Christmas, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Desiree McKenzie, Motion, Britta B.
Treasure Beach, Jamaica
Ann Margaret Lim, Opal Palmer Adisa, Diana McCaulay, Earl McKenzie, Millicent A A Graham, Mutabaruka, Erna Brodber, Olive Senior, Kwame Dawes
LitFest YOUTH
Main financial contributor to LitFest Youth is the Grieg Foundation
Close curtains. Open life.
Maria Navarro Skaranger
A life behind bars
Eivind Riise Hauge
The most difficult surname in the community
Yohan Shanmugaratnam
Losing yourself
Kathrine Nedrejord
Young black lives mean something
Jason Reynolds
I Am Dog
Alwynne Pritchard, Domizia Tosatto
A guide to the climate rebellion
Gaute Eiterjord
Nature journal
Dara McAnulty
Wonderful world
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
What will happen to the world?
Dag O. Hessen
Poet who will not be silenced
Fatemeh Ekhtesari
Young voices
Nancy Herz
What is extremism?
Kristian Bjørkelo
How does somebody become evil?
Simon Stranger
My generation: unveiling the best essay (digital)
Sandra Lillebø, Sigrid Moldestad, Teresa Grøtan
Semi-final in Norwegian poetry slam championship (cancelled)
Heidi Marie Vestrheim
Open mike (postponed)
Fredrik Stenhjem Hagen
LitFest MINI
Travel to antiquity with Kokotopia! (cancelled)
Simon Stranger
Janne and Muskat (cancelled)
Janne Starup Bønes