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English programme

Echo from the bombs

Edurne Portela, Sigrun Slapgard

The art of being different

Jan Grue, Nell Irvin Painter, Per Buvik

A cursed family

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Tomm Kristiansen.

A true story

Alisa Ganieva, Ingunn Lunde.

A white history

Nell Irvin Painter, Kristina Leganger Iversen.

Evil in literature

Hakan Günday, Helon Habila, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Gisle Selnes

Film: The Poetess

Hissa Hilal

Life-changing art

Rupert Thomson, Mona B. Riise

Listening Post: Guo, Makumbi and Ugrešić

Xiaolu Guo, Jennifer Makumbi, Dubravka Ugrešić

Listening Post: Günday, Habila and Vásquez

Hakan Günday, Helon Habila, Juan Gabriel Vásquez

New language, new identity

Xiaolu Guo, Peter Nielsen

Non-binding contracts

Ane Farsethås, Dubravka Ugrešić, Kari Jegerstedt.

Open shop, open mike

Fredrik Hagen

Poetical punk gala

Asieh Amini, Linnea Axelsson, Kristina Leganger Iversen, Camara Lundestad Joof, Cecilie Løveid, Kei Miller, Erlend O. Nødtvedt, Mansur Rajih, Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury AKA Tutul, Gunnar Wærness, Mirte Bogaert, Henning H. Bergsvåg

Poetry captivating millions

Hissa Hilal, James E Montgomery.

Terrorism took our children

Helon Habila, Brit Bildøen, Aage Storm Borchgrevink.

What is literary quality?

Ane FarsethåsJennifer Makumbi, Kari Marstein, Daniel Medin, Peter Nielsen, Eirik Vassenden.

Listening Post: Ganieva, Queffélec and Thomson

Alisa Ganieva, Yann Queffélec, Rupert Thomson

Seminar on French literature and criticism

with Raphaëlle Leyris (Le Monde)

Translating sorrow

James E Montgomery, Daniel Medin

What does the fox say?

Dubravka Ugrešić, Daniel Medin.

 

What he said

Angela Saini, Helene Uri, Kari Jegerstedt.

World anxiety

Heinz Bude

World emotions

Heinz Bude

Memories of violence

Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Edurne Portela.

Official opening of LitFestBergen

Hissa Hilal, Cecilie Løveid, Marte Mjøs Persen, Miss Tati

Premiers: three texts on identity

Linnea Axelsson, Hissa Hilal, Nell Irvin Painter.

Sea and love

Yann Queffélec, Per Anders Todal, Margunn Vikingstad.

The unbearable whiteness of being

Kei Miller, Angela Saini, Tonje Vold