Opening of LitFestBergen 2026

Reading: New Texts on Betrayal

Conversation: New Texts on Betrayal

Meet this Year’s Winner of the Ossietzky Prize

System Failure 95. Original Performance. Concert with John Olav Nilsen

Reading Banned Books Aloud

Critics’ seminar: The Deceptive Nature of Literary Criticism

Critics’ Seminar: On Betraying Oneself, Time and Time Again. Must the Literary Critic Choose One or the Other?

Presentation of the Gullkroken Literature Prize

Critics’ Seminar: Deceptive Critics

Can Norwegians not be bothered to build the country any more?

Critics' seminar: Experimenting with your heart in your hand. Camilla Collett as a literary critic.

Literary Festivals on Life and Death

Witches, Gypsy Girls, Runaways and Other Fallen Women

Fifteen Years Later

Ludvig Holberg and Niels Klim’s Fantastic World

Against Contemporary Western Beauty Standards

When Norway Fails Us Poor People

Treacherous Literary Characters: God

Knut Hamsun and the Right-Wing Radicals

Life, Literature and Betrayal – Betanien Hospital

The Novel as Poetry

Betrayal, Butterflies, and the Metabolism

Reading Banned Books Aloud

City Walk: In the Footsteps of Karl Ove Knausgård

Infidelity!

The literary journal and the writer

Listening Post 1: Dyondza Kwinika, Song Byeok, Amanda Marton

PEN Postcard Campaign - Friday

DN Interview: Christian Ringnes’s Rich Life

What is home?

DN interview: The spies among us

Translators’ Seminar: Translating a Messiah

Life, Literature and Betrayal – Bergen Prison

When World Politics Fails a People

DN Interview: In Her Father’s Shadow

Decolonizing Literature

Palestine – History, Fleeing, Land

Writing from a Country in the Shadows

Trauma Game: Jewish Children at Summer Camp

The Authors of the Future

The Story of Dad

Translators’ Seminar: Taube in Translation

Norwegian Slam Poetry Championship

Reading Banned Books Aloud (Saturday)

Eve, the First Betrayer?

How is a Literary Prize Decided?

How to win a literary prize

PEN Postcard Campaign - Saturday

City Walk: In the Footsteps of Jon Fosse

Listen in: Young Voices on the Freedom to Read

The World on Saturday: Is Norway Ready for War?

Treacherous Literary Characters: “The Spotless One”

A Betrayal of the Welfare State?

Korean Feminism

Espionage, Betrayal, and Family Secrets

From Writing to Content Creation: Integrity at Stake?

How to Build a Library (documentary film)

Satire Under Pressure

Murder and Mystery in Láŋtdievvá

What Does it Mean to Be Good?

Prosalong: Is Weapons’ Research Unethical?

Whose Stories Should We Tell?

A Special Kind of Love

The Liberation of a Woman and a Country

Novels: Distortions of History and the Present

“Save the Whale, Screw the Shrimp”: A Conversation with Joy Williams

Death – a Betrayal?

Feminist Horror

​Poetic Punkgala

Writing Desire

Treacherous Literary Characters: Victor Frankenstein

LitFestMini/Little Sunday: Children’s World History

LitFestMini/Little Sunday: Magic Wand Workshop