Wednesday 8 February 2023
Opening of LitFestBergen 2023 (sold out)
Kjartan Hatløy, Arve Henriksen, Mutabaruka, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Reny Marie Gaasand Folgerø, Eduardo Andersen, Teresa Grøtan, Hjørdis Losnedahl
Fom identity to rage – 5 years of LitFestBergen
Teresa Grøtan, Kjersti Løken Stavrum, Jens Kihl, Sandra Lillebø
The Listening Post: Literature in Spanish
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
How is rage translated?
Gabriela Wiener, Bente Teigen Gundersen, Helene Hovden Hareide
Thursday 9 February 2023
Literary City Walk
Henning Bergsvåg
The Listening Post: Nordic Literature
Charlotte Weitze, Petra Rautiainen, M. Seppola Simonsen
Iran seen from Norway: About being an exiled author and activist
Asieh Amini, Ingeborg Kværne, Merete Røsvik
New Norwegian voices
Sandra Lillebø, Monica Isakstuen, Eivind Riise Hauge, Daniel Medin
The American Nightmare [sold out]
Thomas Seltzer, Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen
Ukraine’s neighbours
Valzhyna Mort, Tatiana Țîbuleac, Martin Paulsen
The untamed child [sold out]
Matias Faldbakken, Marit Eikemo
Football: Power and powerlessness
Nils Henrik Smith, Philip McNulty, Henning Bergsvåg.
People as nature
Charlotte Weitze, Anne Karin Sæther
Movie screening: The Writer from a Country without Bookstores
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
Winner meeting: Nora Dåsnes
Nora Dåsnes, Robin van de Walle
Furious lecture: Language
Kristin Fridtun
Life in Limbo
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Helene Hovden Hareide
Furious Father
Martin Eia-Revheim, Clemens Saers, Kjersti Mjør
Furious at mother
Tatiana Țîbuleac, Ingunn Lunde
Music and aggression
Dayal Patterson, Thomas Seltzer, Tor-Otto Mjelde
Rage in life and literature
Lars Fr. Svendsen, Monica Isakstuen, Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Eivind Riise Hauge
Relaxation
Kjartan Hatløy, Arve Henriksen, Thomas T. Dahl, Terje Isungset
Friday 10 February 2023
Kven Poetry
M. Seppola Simonsen
Furious lecture: Rage
Lars Fr. Svendsen
The Battle of Stalingrad
Iain MacGregor, Martin Paulsen
The Listening Post: Mengiste, Temelkuran and Al-Nakib
Maaza Mengiste, Ece Temelkuran, Mai Al-Nakib
The familiar unknown
Zaffar Kunial, Rasma Haidri
Cultural diversity – fostering a sense of community in schools
Ben Yu, Leïla Rezzouk, Anna Svingen-Austestad, Linn Katrin Pilskog
The radicalised
Anne Bitsch, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Øyvind Strømmen
Withstanding the storm
Ingeborg Senneset, Hilde Sandvik
Furious lecture: School
Clemens Saers
Prose Lounge: Typos!
Kristin Fridtun, Gunnstein Akselberg, Jan H. Landro
Rage as a destructive force
Ece Temelkuran, Kjersti Løken Stavrum
The Iliad without anger
Alice Oswald, Janne Stigen Drangsholt
Strife and solidarity
Jonas Bals, Mímir Kristjánsson
What is literary quality?
Nick Barley, Lola Shoneyin, Michael Kelleher, Eirik Vassenden
Getting the rage down on paper
Annette Mattsson, Eivind Riise Hauge
Should rage be condoned?
Hilde Kvalvaag, Norun Haugen, Hilde Sandvik
Poetic Punk Gala [sold out]
Alice Oswald, Brynjulf Jung Tjønn, Maja Lee Langvad, Øyvind Rimbereid, Valzhyna Mort, Eira Søyseth, Mutabaruka, Zaffar Kunial, Pauli Tapio, Sarah Zahid,Henning Bergsvåg
Literary date
Lars Petter Hagen, Solrun Toft Iversen, Trond-Viggo Torgersen
PEN postcard campaign and festival café
Send a greeting to authors, journalists and bloggers who have been imprisoned or are being threatened and persecuted worldwide.
Rivalry on and off the pitch
Phil McNulty, Jim White, Davy Wathne
Conversation in the night: Per Petterson
Per Petterson, Alf van der Hagen
Saturday 11 February 2023
My language is my bird
Masoma Kawsary, Parwana Fayyaz, Nasrin Khusrawi, Kristin Skare Orgeret
Great men and torn-down statues
Alex von Tunzelmann, Michelle Tisdel
What is poetry?
Alice Oswald, Pauli Tapio, Valzhyna Mort, Zaffar Kunial, Sivert Nesbø
Adoptees
Maja Lee Langvad, Brynjulf Jung Tjønn, Anne Bitsch
The African country that defeated Europe
Maaza Mengiste, Daniel Medin
Rage in Sørfjorden
Leander Djønne, Lars Ove Seljestad, Jan H. Landro
Life in the archives
Richard Conyngham, Iain MacGregor, Michelle Tisdel
A Furious Statement
Kathrine Nedrejord, Teresa Grøtan
World on Saturday: A New World Order?
Mah-Rukh Ali, Tarjei Skirbekk, Halvor Tjønn, Kjersti Løken Stavrum
Rage and elegy
Alfred Fidjestøl. Øyvind Rimbereid, Margunn Vikingstad
Rage – fertile fury?
Mutabaruka, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Alex von Tunzelmann
Choleric Quartet
Preben Jordal, Sandra Lillebø, Frode Helmich Pedersen, Eirik Vassenden
Grass Roots Rebellion
Richard Conyngham, Kristin Skare Orgeret
Freedom and literature in the Middle East
Mai Al-Nakib, Ece Temelkuran, Asieh Amini, Kari Jegerstedt
Forgotten Chapter
Petra Rautiainen, Iain MacGregor
Hagesalongen (The Garden Lounge)
Erik Bjerck Hagen, Erlend Liisberg
Ask the author!
Mímir Kristjánson, Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Frode Helmich Pedersen
Guerilla and feminism
Maaza Mengiste, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Cecilie Hellestveit
Teaching Nietzsche in Kuwait
Mai Al-Nakib, Anne Katrine Bang
Norwegian poetry slam championships
André Berge Frislid, Jawad Aziz, Marija Bliznac, Sara Harbo Soma, Asha Abdullahi, Ida Benonisen
PEN postcard campaign and festival café
Send a greeting to authors, journalists and bloggers who have been imprisoned or are being threatened and persecuted worldwide.
Sunday 12 February 2023
Quiet Friends
Chie Ito, Rei Ito, Ben Yu
Prose Lounge: Abortion
Grethe Fatima Syéd, Kjersti Sandvik, Ole-Erik Iversen, Sandra Lillebø
Movie screening: Der Sonnenfuchs/The Sun Fox
Frank Wierke, Kjartan Hatløy
Infuriatingly good rhetoric in Bergen
Morten Hammerborg, Alfred Fidjestøl, Preben Jordal
Furious lecture: Revenge
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
PEN postcard campaign and festival café
Send a greeting to authors, journalists and bloggers who have been imprisoned or are being threatened and persecuted worldwide.
LitFest MINI
Forelska i Feisbukk (Fall in love with Feisbukk) – theatre premiere
Ole Henrik Risøy Solheim, Hans Sande, Julie Keyers, Jakob Helgheim
«Alle kongers tromme (The drums of all the Kings) » with Raymond and Beathe
Raymond Sereba, Beathe Frostad
Concert with Martin Hazy
Martin Hazy
LitFest YOUTH
Han, solo
Robin Van de Walle
No man is an island
Jørgen Watne Frydnes
All Rise
Richard Conyngham
Hjerteskog // Syđänmettä
M. Seppola Simonsen
Putting together the pieces
Martin Eia-Revheim
Norwegian guilt
Anne Bitsch
Rosarium
Charlotte Weitze
Dictionary of survival
Ingeborg Senneset
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad
Iain MacGregor