Wednesday 7 February 2024
Opening of LitFestBergen 2024
Erlend O. Nødtvedt, Nomthandazo Shandu, Andisa Mpisi, Adania Shibli, Even Aleksander Hagen, Christine Meyer, Teresa Grøtan, Hjørdis Losnedahl
Live transmission: Opening of LitFestBergen 2024
Erlend O. Nødtvedt, Nomthandazo Shandu, Andisa Mpisi, Adania Shibli, Even Aleksander Hagen, Christine Meyer, Teresa Grøtan, Hjørdis Losnedahl
Illustrating a war
Nora Krug, Karin Haugen
Reading from the Trigger System
Bjørn Sundquist, Thea Stabell and a suprise guest
The many lives of Shabana Rehman
Morten Traavik, Kjersti Løken Stavrum
Thursday 8 February 2024
An introduction to Sami literature
Harald Gaski
NRK "Åpen bok"
Hear NRK's literary critics review current festival books and answer questions from listeners.
Critics Seminar: Beyond the Horizon – Criticism of Sami Contemporary Literature
Sigbjørn Skåden, Malin Nord, Ánna Márjá Guttorm Graven, Saia Marilena Stueng, Carina Beddari, Erlend Liisberg
Oil and corruption in Norway and Nigeria
Eva Joly, Nnimmo Bassey, Jostein Kobbeltvedt
Sold out. Too much trust?
Eva Joly, Torbjørn Røe Isaksen
Cancelled: The author as an activist: a conversation with Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy, Rasma Haidri
People who struggle: a conversation with Ingvild Rishøi
Ingvild Rishøi, Eivind Riise Hauge
Winnie and Nelson: myths about a marriage
Jonny Steinberg, Ismail Mahomed
On the job with a funeral director
Tor-Håkon Gabriel Håvardsen, Trond-Viggo Torgersen
Reading Sally Rooney
Daniel Medin, Carina Beddari, Eirik Vassenden
No faith in the future
Torbjørn Røe Isaksen, Mah-Rukh Ali
Friday 9 February 2024
Sold out. City walk: Jon Fosse
Margunn Vikingstad
Found in Translation
Gunnhild Øyehaug, Frode Grytten, Daniel Medin
What does a Nobel Prize mean?
Frode Grytten, Saia Marilena Stueng, Abduweli Ayup, Ingeborg Volan
The battle for the climate in literature
Brit Bildøen, Anne Karin Sæther
Women looking at men looking at women
Kristin Fridtun, Kari Jegerstedt
Listening Post: Martínez, Steinberg
Óscar Martínez
PEN’s postcard campaign – Friday
Write a message to imprisoned and persecuted authors, journalists and bloggers worldwide.
Prose Salon: Book burning – a European tradition
Ottar Grepstad, Gunnstein Akselberg
Creole stories
Ari Gautier, Anne K. Bang
Sold out. Munch: art, literature, madness
Ivo de Figueiredo, Karl Ove Knausgård, Frode Sandvik
Crime journalist in El Salvador
Óscar Martínez, Kjersti Løken Stavrum
Sold out. A Time for Knausgård
Karl Ove Knausgård, Karin Haugen
Live transmission: A Time for Knausgård
We will be televising the event live on the big screen in Olav H. Hauge
Poetic Punk Gala
Priya Bains, Ruth Lillegraven, Meena Kandasamy, Erlend Nødtvedt, Pivinnguaq Mørch, Rasma Haidri, Nnimmo Bassey, Timimie Märak
Great drinks and good chemistry
Per Magnus Haig, Jarle Sydney Diesen
Into the night with Erlend Loe and Mona B Riise
Erlend Loe, Mona B. Riise
Saturday 10 February 2024
The World on Saturday: Bitter friends
Kjersti Løken Stavrum, Elisabeth Eide, Gunnar M. Sørbø, Julie Wilhelmsen
PEN’s postcard campaign – Saturday
Write a message to imprisoned and persecuted authors, journalists and bloggers worldwide.
The Shadow. Dance performance
Marit Loe Bjørnstad
Lunar New Year
Nhu Diep, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Tang Fu Kuen, Ben Wenhou Yu
Children in war
Romana Romanyshyn, Andryj Lesiv, Heidi Bøhagen
Judging a book by its cover
Elizabeth Sellevold, Simone Stibbe, Yngve Knausgård, Hjørdis Losnedahl
Collective writing
Tale Næss, Jonas Eika, Fatemeh Ekhtesari, Timimie Gassko Märak, Henning Bergsvåg
How do you write the truth about someone?
Ivo de Figueiredo, Jonny Steinberg, Katrine Sele
Pop Poetry with Mona B Riise
Mona B. Riise
Listening Post: Kit de Waal, Judith Hermann
Kit de Waal, Judith Hermann
The world's best climate stories
Kerim Nisancioglu, Siri Veland, Teresa Grøtan, Kikki Flesche Kleiven
The world's best climate stories. YouTube-stream
Kerim Nisancioglu, Siri Veland, Teresa Grøtan, Kikki Flesche Kleiven
Roads in literature. Lecture by Ruth Lillegraven
Ruth Lillegraven
Young voices from Bergen and Durban
Amanda Hersvik, Lea Bakken, Nomthandazo Shandu, Andisa Mpisi, Julia Martinčič, Rita María Muñoz Farías
The Shadow. Dance performance
Marit Loe Bjørnstad
A literary date
Herborg Kråkevik, Trond-Viggo Torgersen, Mona B Riise
New stories and powerful machines
Julia Martinčič, Sivert Nesbø
Life and literature
Judith Hermann, Øystein Vidnes
Podcast: Hagesalongen (The Garden Lounge)
Erik Bjerck Hagen, Erlend Liisberg
Norwegian championship in Slam
Vinnarane frå distriktsfinalane, Heidi Marie Vestrheim
Sunday 11 February 2024
LitFest MINI
Andryj Lesiv, Romana Romanyshyn
Erlend and Herborg in Olav’s bed
Erlend O. Nødtvedt, Herborg Kråkevik
PEN’s postcard campaign – Sunday
Write a message to imprisoned and persecuted authors, journalists and bloggers worldwide.
Around the world in 80 minutes
Teresa Grøtan, Yngve Knausgård, Hjørdis Losnedahl, Maxine Padayachee
Cancelled: Hungry Barbie doll: a conversation with Kit de Waal
Kit de Waal, Katrine Sele
A life in western Norway
Odd W. Surén, Tormod Haugland, Brit Bildøen
A pale blue dot: Lecture about photography
Eivind Senneset
Closing: from dissolution to solution
Teresa Grøtan, Eirik Vassenden, Cherilyn Parsons
LitFest MINI
LitFest MINI
Andryj Lesiv, Romana Romanyshyn
LitFest YOUTH
My name is Leon
Kit de Waal
Må vi slutte med olje?
Anne Karin Sæther
Diaries of war
Nora Krug
Post Mortem
Tor-Håkon Gabriel Håvardsen
PEN Norway
Norsk PEN
Stargate
Ingvild Rishøi
Ild, tenner, vann, tunge
Nhu Diep
Alt er mitt
Ruth Lillegraven
Drømmenes sykkelregister
Erlend Loe