Join the International Book Club
Enjoy reading literature from all over the world? Want to meet new people who share that interest?
Then join Bergen International Book Club. Participation is free. The only requirement is that you want to read and speak English.
Kari Jegerstedt, literature-lover and associate professor at the University of Bergen, leads the book club. Once a month, she will be selecting a book by one of the international authors due to attend the festival or the program at the Literature House.
The book club normally meet in the Fosse-stova room at Litteraturhuset i Bergen.
2024:
January: Time Shelter, roman Georgi Gospodinov
February: Without warning & Only Sometimes, memoar Kit de Waal
March 11: Morning and evening, Jon Fosse
April 9: Blue Like Apples, poetry, Rasma Haidri
May 13: Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
June 10: I see the invisible, poetry Nnimmo Bassey
9 January: The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste, 2019 (novel)
6 February: Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort, 2020 (poetry)
13 March: All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa by Richard Conyngham, 2022 (graphic novel)
12 June: Trust by Hernan Diaz, 2022 (novel)
14 August: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, 2022 (novel)
11 September: The Country of Others by Leila Slimani, 2021 (novel)
9 October: Thirukkural – The Book of Desire by Meena Kandasamy
13 November: Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
11 December: Diaries of War by Nora Krug
Book Club 2022:
9 May, 19.00–20.30: Checkout 19, Claire Louise Bennett, 2021
Bennet attended LiFestBergen in February this year where she talked about "Checkout 19".
Available at Boksalongen.
13 June, 19.00–20.30: Minor Detail, Adania Shibli
Shibli attended LiFestBergen in February.
Available at Boksalongen.
8 August, 19.00–20.30: Autobiography of Red. A Novel in Verse. Anne Carson, 1998
Carson will be a guest at De Litterære Festspill in Bergen in May this year.
On its way to Boksalongen
Joining the book club will allow you to
- meet new people who share your pleasure in literature
- become better acquainted with the works of some of the authors coming to Bergen
- discuss literature with a specialist
- acquire unique political and cultural insights into far-away countries – through their literature.
To ask questions and sign up, send an e-mail to bookclub@litfestbergen.no
You can order the relevant books through Boksalongen, Litteraturhuset’s own bookshop, and get a 10 per cent discount. To reserve a book, send an e-mail to boksalongen@litthusbergen.no.