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ENGLISH PROGRAM Spring has sprung in the city and it is teeming with life. There are books and authors everywhere you look. It’s finally time for the Festival of Literature in Lillehammer! Among the international highlights are the Belarusian Nobel Prize nominee Svetlana Aleksijevitsj, one of the leading figures of British literature, Julian Barnes, and the young, Danish poet Yahya Hassan. Read up ahead of time, so you will get even more out of the experience when you see the authors on stage. With a focus on freedom of expression and authors’ struggles with the words, a geographic plunge into the social conditions and literature of Russia and Eastern Europe, the powerful works of Nordic authors, a dose of new Norwegian drama, poetry and food on the menu, it is our pleasure to welcome you to a festival that we hope will not only entertain, challenge, and inspire you but also provide you with new knowledge! PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS OPENING The opening performance will be a dramatic homage to Sigrid Undset, on her birthday. Ellen Horn has been cast in the role of Undset. Other cast members are Norwegian authors Herbjørg Wassmo and Synne Lea, along with Croatian author Slavenka Drakulić, and Marie Aljokhina from the Russian punk poetry group Pussy Riot. Read more on page 7 Through the literary encounters and lectures you will have the chance to experience during this year’s festival, an arc is drawn extending all the way from the smallest of stories told in personal voices, to the large social issues about war, peace, democracy and freedom of expression. We can offer six festival days and more than 200 scheduled events. So if you are fond of literature and debate and are looking for a social meeting place with a focus on books, then Lillehammer is the place to be on 20–25 May. Feel free to create your own festival itinerary by selecting your favourites! GALA EVENING PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS WELCOME WELCOME TO THE FESTIVAL! We will celebrate literature through a multigenre gala evening: Novels, shorts stories and poetry of significance will fill the evening. We start off with an encounter with Julian Barnes, one of the leading figures of British literature. This will be Barnes’ first appearance on stage at a Norwegian literature event, here in meeting and conversation with Linn Ullmann. In addition there will be a reading by the Danish star poet Yahya Hassan and a meeting with Norway’s foremost short story author Kjell Askildsen. Read more on page 14 POETRY AND DANCE Marit Borkenhagen Festival Director 2 Lina Undrum Mariussen Artistic Adviser Randi Høiholt-Vågsnes Head of Pegasus and project coordinator Annette Seglem Production coordinator How might a poem appear if it were expressed through contemporary dance? Dancer Henriette Hamli interprets readings by Steinar Opstad, Gunnar Wærness and Cecilie Løveid. Read more on page 9 3 UKRAINE ON FIRE What are the greatest challenges facing Ukraine today? Don’t miss the meeting with author Andrej Kurkov, who is considered one of Ukraine’s foremost contemporary authors. Kurkov’s literary breakthrough came with the satirical novel Picknick on the Ice, a dark, absurd comedy from post-Soviet Ukraine. He has in recent times lived in the midst of the ongoing uprisings and violence in Kiev. Read more on page 15 SVETLANA ALEKSIJEVITSJ She has written about life following the nuclear accident in Chernobyl, about Soviet women’s contribution during the Second World War and about the life of Soviet people in the aftermath of communism. In the autumn of 2013 she was among those heading the shortlist of nominees for the Nobel Prize in literature. The Belarusian author Svetlana Aleksijevitsj will participate in and be in the spotlight for a number of events during the festival. Read more on pages 17, 19 THE YEAR’S BJØRNSON LECTURER: SLAVENKA DRAKULIC Slavenka Drakulić has written about life under communism, in wartime and violations against women in article form, novels and non-fiction. As a women’s rights activist she has had a particular focus on the impact of the communist regime and subsequent wars on the situation of women in the Balkans. She left Croatia due to threats as a result of her unflinching descriptions of the human beings and cultural and political unrest in the region. Drakulić will also take part in the Opening Performance and two author meetings. Read more on pages 7, 10, 12, 13 TRANSGRESSIONS: NORWEGIAN-POLISH SHORT STORY MEETING Do Norwegian and Polish contemporary short fiction have anything in common, and if so, what? We have invited two Norwegian and two Polish short story authors to meet for readings and conversation: Mikkel Bugge, Laila Stien, Marek Bienczyk and Inga Iwasiów. Read more on page 11 FINALE Loneliness and small town life in Norway are recurring themes in Bjella’s melancholy lyrics. For Vonde visu (Oh Yeah!) ("Songs of Pain (Oh Yeah!)") he was awarded the Norwegian music prizes Spellemannprisen, Prøysenprisen and Bendiksenprisen. On his most recent album Heim for å døy (Home to die) a darker Bjella emerges. With greater variation and a rougher expression he delivers a modern Norwegian classic. Read more on page 21 PUSSY RIOT Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich were charged with hooliganism and sentenced to two years’ inprisonment after having performed a protest song against Putin in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. They were later pardoned and released. Maria Alyokhina are coming to Lillehammer and will speak about their work and several filmmakers, artists and activists. Read more on pages 6, 10 4 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS BUY TICKETS IN ADVANCE! If you have a festival pass, this gives you admission to all events, space permitting and unless otherwise specified. By purchasing a supplementary ticket for NOK 10 you can reserve a seat at the events that may be filled to capacity. Supplementary tickets and individual tickets can be purchased at eBillett or at the festival office up to 11 PM on the evening before the day the events take place. Tickets are sold at ordinary price at the door starting a half-hour before the event. See the information on p. 23 and for each programme item. 5 TUESDAY 7:00 – 8:30 PM | MAIHAUGSALEN Herbjørg Wassmo, Slavenka Drakulić, Synne Lea, Ellen Horn and Pussy Riot are among the artists to be found on stage for the opening performance, which this year will take place on Sigrid Undset’s birthday. Welcome to a performance in which literature and the conditions for literature in society are explored. A literary performance that we hope will be both thought-provoking and entertaining, and ask questions of relevance from both a social and artist’s perspective. PUSSY RIOT VS. PUTIN TUESDAY 2:00 PM | LILLEHAMMER KINO What is in fact happening in Russia? Does Putin want to tighten an iron grip as a Russian dictator and come down hard on all rebellious and artistic activity? The reactions against the feminist punk group Pussy Riot is just one of several examples of violations of freedom of expression and artistic freedom in the country. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich were charged with hooliganism and sentenced to two years in prison after having performed a protest song aginst Putin at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. They were later pardoned and released. Maria Alyokhina will be in Lillehammer together with the filmmakers Taisiya Krugovykh and Vasily Bogatov and the activists and artists Lusine Dzhanyan and Aleksei Nekrasov. They will talk about Russia, activism and freedom of expression. Film clips from the documentary Pussy vs. Putin. Moderator: Aage Borchgrevink. NOK 100 | Book signing and sales The event will be in English 6 HÅKON GULLVÅG AND SLIMAN MANSOUR-FESTIVALUTSTILLING 2014 TUESDAY 5:00 PM | GALLERI ZINK | EXHIBITION OPENING Galleri ZINK welcomes you to the year’s festival exhibition, featuring Håkon Gullvåg and Sliman Mansour. Works by Palestinian Sliman Mansour and Norwegian Håkon Gullvåg will be presented here, two of the respective countries’ foremost contemporary artists. Both have exhibited their work extensively, both nationally and internationally. Although their artistic expressions are different, we find a number of convergences, not least through a shared interest in issues of current social relevance. The exhibition will be up from 20 May – 15 June 2014. Organiser: Galleri ZINK | Free of charge as a whole. The winners of the Dobloug Prize and Eckbos Legat’s cultural prize will be announced during the opening of the Norwegian Festival of Literature. Portions of the production will be in English. NOK 300 TUESDAY 20 MAY TUESDAY 20 MAY OPENING PERFORMANCE The performance will simultaneously pay homage to Sigrid Undset, on her birthday. We enter her literary production at a point in time where a great deal was at stake, when Undset was forced to leave Bjerkebæk and Norway due to the German occupation in 1940. From exile in America, Undset wrote with passionate engagement letters, articles and lectures on the themes of oppression, resistance, exile, literature and the necessity of self-expression. Actress Ellen Horn will perform the role of Undset. We have invited Norwegian authors Herbjørg Wassmo and Synne Lea, the Croatian author Slavenka Drakulić, as well as Maria Aljokhina from the Russian punk poetry group Pussy Riot to take part using their own texts. The performance is beautifully framed by the music of Ragnhild and Eldbjørg Hemsing. Dancers from the Lillehammer & Gjøvik Dansesenter will take part under the direction of Silje Onstad Haalien. Jørgen Damskau is director of the production 77 WEDNESDAY 11:00 AM LILLEHAMMER KUNSTMUSEUM, KAFEEN Sliman Mansour is viewed as one of the foremost painters in Palestine. In his works, the Israeli occupation is a consistent and recurring theme, and he is co-author of the book Both Sides of Peace. Håkon Gullvåg has held a central position on the Norwegian art scene since his breakthrough as an artist at Galleri Dobloug in 1983. He has since 2008 painted a series of artworks employing motifs and impressions from acts of war in Gaza and on the West Bank. About this he has said: “I have painted in a wild rage.” Mansour and Gullvåg met and developed their friendship through their paintings and together organised the exhibition “Situasjoner” (“Situations”) in Trondheim and Ramallah in 2008. Meet them in conversation with journalist and former foreign correspondent Sidsel Wold. NOK 100 which is about the 13-year old Conor and his difficulties handling that his mother has cancer. “There are books that tear down all defence mechanisms. And then there you sit alone with the book and your own heart,” Tyra T. Tronstad wrote about the book on her blog. Meet American author Patrick Ness in conversation with Tyra T. Tronstad. Age group: Young people | Free of charge The event will be in English POETRY AND DANCE WEDNESDAY 2:00 PM | LILLEHAMMER KUNSTMUSEUM, STORE SAL FAMILY SECRETS WEDNESDAY 12:00 AM GALLERI ZINK | WORDS AND PICTURES A MONSTER CALLS WEDNESDAY 12:00 AM | BINGO’N | GROTTEN A Monster Calls is a project that was started by British author Siobhan Dowd, but which she never had the opportunity to finish because she was afflicted with cancer and died. Patrick Ness picked up the baton and completed the book, 8 event. In his keynote lecture he will talk about his life as a reader and author, from his first meeting with books as a child, via his book collector’s mania, to the topic of his own writing process, and about the challenges of today related to the role of the printed book in the digital age. Introduction by Ellen Svendsen. NOK 100 | Book signing and sales | The lecture will be in English One morning a little girl gets up earlier than usual, and she discovers something unbelievable, something which her mother has until now kept to herself. A secret that makes her and her family different from everybody else. How can she behave normally after having learned this? Meet last year’s ALMA (Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award) winner, the Argentina author and illustrator Isol (Marisol Misenta) in conversation with illustrator Per Dybvig. Moderator: Veronica Salinas. For children | Free of charge The event will be in Spanish and Norwegian How might a contemporary poem look if expressed through contemporary dance? Dancer Henriette Hamli interprets the readings of three of Norway’s most important poets: Steinar Opstad, Gunnar Wærness and Cecilie Løveid. Henriette Hamli has studied dance at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and has a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz dance. She now works as a freelance dancer and has taken part in both and POP, MOVE and RESIDENS at Dance House Norway. She has previously interpreted texts through dance with Geir Langslet and Tove Tandberg Krafft in a project called Light Of Love. There will be readings from both published and unpublished poems – come and be surprised! NOK 100 | Book signing and sales JULIAN BARNES: «A LIFE WITH BOOKS» WEDNESDAY 3:00 PM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK KEYNOTE LECTURE The British author Julian Barnes has an abundant literary production under his belt and in 2011 he received the Man Booker Prize for the novel The Sense of an Ending. At the Norwegian Festival of Literature 2014 he appears for the first time on stage at a Norwegian literature WEDNESDAY 21 MAY WEDNESDAY 21 MAY SACRED LAND AND WILD RAGE. ART TRANSCENDING BORDERS ISOL WEDNESDAY 3:00 PM GALLERI ZINK | NEVER A GROWN-UP “The illustrator as author. About finding a unique language for each book.” Isol (Marisol Misenta) is an Argentenian author of picture books and an illustrator. She debuted in 1997 with Vida de Perros (“A Dog’s Life”). She both writes and illustrates her own books, illustrates the works of other authors, and has for periods of time been the in-house illustrator for one of Argentina’s largest newspapers. Isol has won a number of prizes and awards, and in 2013 she received the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA). In addition to Vida de Perros, also Secreto de familia (“Family Secrets”) and Nocturne: Dream Recipes have been translated into Norwegian. Meet Isol in conversation with the Swedish picture book critic Ulla Rhedin about the process behind her picture books. NOK 100 | The event will be in English 99 NORDIC FANTASY, WHAT IS IT? For this year’s Bjørnson lecturer, Slavenka Drakulić, fiction and society cannot be viewed in isolation from each other: She has written novels about the war in the Balkans, about rape in a prison camp in Serbia, about people in need of organ transplants, and she is interested in women’s experiences of their own bodies, of vulnerability, sexuality, aging. What does she think about the relation between reality and literature? Slavenka Drakulić meets Mustafa Can for a discussion. NOK 100 | The event will be in English In 2013 Seita Meri Vuorela was awarded the first The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize for the book Karikko. She will be interviewed here by Stig Elvis Furset. HVELVET | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS MEETING READING – BLOOD AND ROSES BY KATE PENDRY WEDNESDAY 5:00 – 7:00 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, HOLBØSALEN | DRAMA In Blood and Roses the ghost of Marilyn Monroe meets Jackie Kennedy as Jackie is praying beside her dead husband’s coffin in November 1963. The production was written in connection with the 50-year commemoration of the assasination of John F. Kennedy. Suzie Davis and Mai Lise Rasmussen will give a reading of the work. Afterwards Hans Petter Blad invites us to a conversation with dramatist Kate Pendry. In collaboration with The Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting and The Writer’s Guild of Norway | NOK 100 | Performed in English 10 WEDNESDAY 5:00 – 8:00 PM | GALLERI ZINK | SEMINAR Karikko is a fantasy book with a difference. Is it an expression of Nordic fantasy literature’s own difference? If so, what does the difference consist of, and does it mean that Nordic fantasy literature in general brings something new to the genre? These questions will be debated by a panel offering the reflections of scholarly distance and engaged authors. Panel members: Martin Fyrileiv, author, Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg, scholar, Mari Moen Holsve, author and Mette Hofsødegård, critic. Organiser: The Norwegian Institute of Children’s Books (NBI) and Norwegian Writers for Children (NBU) | Free of charge | Open to general public | The event will be in Finnish, Norwegian and English PUSSY RIOT, A PUNK PRAYER WEDNESDAY 6:00 – 8:30 PM | LILLEHAMMER KINO | FILM Mike Lerner and Maksim Pozdorovkin, 2013, 88 min. When the feminist group Pussy Riot performed a 40-second punk prayer in one of Russia’s most important cathedrals, they were arrested and charged with religious hate and blasphemy. The trial awoke attention all over the world. The Oscar-nominated directors followed the group for six months and give us access to exceptional footage about the three women behind the colourful balaclavas. While they defend themselves from a cage in the courtroom, we receive through family and friends an idea of how they have gone from being political activists to becoming modern day icons. In collaboration with Lillehammer kino NOK 100 | Russian dialog with english text GARDEN PARTY WEDNESDAY 6:00 – 11:00 PM | THE NANSEN ACADEMY Come along with us, out into the light summer evening for a barbecue, wine, readings and music. Monika Fagerholm (FI), Josefine Klougart (DK) and Ruth Lillegraven (NO) will read. There will be an open mike later in the evening for courageous debut authors and others who want to jump in with their own texts. Concert by the jazzed-up crossover band Ted Glen Extended. In collaboration with The Nansen Academy | NOK 100 | In the event of rain the event will be held indoors TRANSGRESSIONS: NORWEGIAN-POLISH SHORT STORY MEETING WEDNESDAY 7:00 – 8:30 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, FESTSALEN Do Norwegian and Polish contemporary short stories have something in common, and if so, what? What happens to the stories we tell when we start crossing geographic and cultural borders? The aim of the project «Transgressions» is to increase the knowledge of Polish literature in Norway and of Norwegian literature in Poland and we have invited four authors to meet for readings and discussion: Laila Stien is one of Norway’s foremost short story authors and Mikkel Bugge’s short story collection Tauet (“The Rope”) has won critical acclaim. Marek Bienczyk and Inga Iwasiów are prominent and well-known authors from Poland and all four will come to Lillehammer, each with his or her respective new short story. The moderators are Janneken Øverland and Eirik Ingebrigtsen. In collaboration with Active Communications Society, Poland| Made possible by funding from the EEA, Polish Ministry and Promotion of Diversity in Culture and Arts | Free of charge The event will be in Polish and Norwegian WEDNESDAY 21 MAY WEDNESDAY 21 MAY THE BODY’S EXPERIENCES WEDNESDAY 4:00 PM | LITERARY DEATH MATCH! WEDNESDAY 10:00 – 12:00 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, FESTSALEN 4 authors, 3 judges, 2 finalists and 1 finale – welcome to an entertaining evening of Norwegian quality literature, presented with a twist of circus and stunts! Here the audience will witness enthusiastic readings, led by the always refreshingly energetic presenter Adrian Todd Zuniga, flown in from the USA for the occasion. Literary Death Match has travelled all over the world, with performances in London, Los Angeles, Paris and Hong Kong, and now Lillehammer’s up! We are betting on a high showmanship factor and a large beer factor, good texts and ruthlessly sincere judges. The authors on stage this evening are Gine Cornelia Pedersen, Ellisiv Lindkvist, Lars Ramslie and Ola Jostein Jørgensen. Jury: Cathrine Sandnes, John Erik Riley and Torgrim Eggen. NOK 100 | The event will be in Norwegian and English 1111 A Monster Calls is a project started by the British author Siobhan Dowd, which she was never able to carry out, because she was afflicted with cancer and died. Patrick Ness picked up the baton and completed the book, which is about the 13-year old Conor and his difficulties tackling his mother having cancer. “There are books that tear down all defence mechanisms. And then there you sit, alone with the book and your own heart,” Tyra T. Tronstad wrote about the book on her blog. Meet the American author Patrick Ness in conversation with Tyra T. Tronstad. For upper and lower secondary school children The event will be in English | Free of charge unrest in the region. Among her works found in Norwegian are Hvordan vi overlevde kommunismen – og kunne le av den (How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed) and Som om jeg ikke fantes (As if I Am Not There). Inger Skjelsbæk gives an introduction: «About the Balkans, war, and peace in the writing of Slavenka Drakulić». She is deputy director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and is very knowledgeable about the situation in the Balkans. Musical tidbits from the Balkans by Emanuel Manolov. In collaboration with Lillehammer University College, the Nansen Academy and Maihaugen. Free of charge | Bus from the Nansen Academy from Lillehammer Skysstasjon at 9:30 AM. Return trip at 12:15 PM | The event will be in English THE BJØRNSON LECTURE: «PEACE AND DIALOGUE » THURSDAY 10:00 – 12:00 AM LILLEHAMMER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Slavenka Drakulić from Croatia will give a lecture about peace and dialogue from the perspective of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Through a diverse and internationally recognised body of literary work, Drakulić has written about life under communism, war, and violations of women, in articles, novels and non-fiction. As a women’s rights activist she has had a particular interest in the impact of both the communist form of governance and subsequent wars on the situation of women in the Balkans. Drakulić focuses on stories of families and individuals rather than on geopolitical issues and ideas about modern day warfare. She left Croatia due to threats in response to her unflinching depictions of the human beings and the cultural and political 12 READINGS BY ICORN GUEST WRITERS THURSDAY LUNCH THURSDAY 1:00 PM | SØNDRE PARK | LUNCH IN THE PARK Surrounded by birch trees and cheerful festival guests you can enjoy a cup of coffee or a full lunch, while you are also served spiritual nourishment. Readings by Arne Lygre: Ingenting av meg (“Nothing of me”), Dorthe Nors: Minna mangler et øvelokale (“Minna Needs Rehearsal Space”), Helga Flatland: Det finnes ingen helhet (“There is no Whole”), and Patrick Ness: The Monster Calls. Moderator: Lina Undrum Mariussen. Free of charge | Book signing and sales The event will be in Norwegian and English SUCCESS STORIES FROM ABROAD THURSDAY 2:00 PM | HVELVET The business of publishing is sometimes referred to as «the mystery of publishing». What is it that makes a book become a huge success in some countries, but completely disappear from sight in others? Publishers from England, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands share their best success stories with one another and the audience. In collaboration with The Norwegian Publishers Association, NORLA and Norwegian agents | Free of charge The discussion will be in English THURSDAY 11:00 AM | SØNDRE PARK | MORNING IN THE PARK They are all in exile in Norway after having provoked the authorities of their respective countries with their literature. This year we will fill this hour with readings from four former ICORN guest writers, all of whom are poets: Nada Yousif from Molde/Iraq, Basim Mardan from Skien/Iraq, Manal Al-Sheikh from Stavanger/Iraq and Asieh Amini from Trondheim/Iran. Moderator: Carl Morten Iversen. Free of charge | The event will be in Norwegian, English and Arabic This year’s Bjørnson lecturer is an internationally recognised author and women’s rights activist from Croatia, now a resident of Sweden and Austria. Here we meet her in conversation with peace researcher Inger Skjelsbæk and the audience. Organiser: The Nansen Academy in collaboration with Lillehammer University College. NOK 100 | The conversation will be in English SIMPLE FARE IN THE SPIRIT OF PRØYSEN THURSDAY 5:00 PM | PRØYSENHUSET THURSDAY 22 MAY THURSDAY 22 MAY A MONSTER CALLS THURSDAY 10:00 AM GAUSDAL BIBLIOTEK | AUTHORS MEETING «It was possible to survive for a long time on gravy and potatoes.» Our hostess Brit, from the Simenstad Guest Farm, offers good, old-fashioned farmer’s lapskaus stew with Norwegian flatbread, and apple and cranberry compote. For dessert cold rhubarb soup with cream, stovetop and bread dough coffee. The meal will bring back memories of former times and Prøysen’s lyrics. «There should be a pail of cold, good rhubarb soup.» If you have taken part in the Prøysen seminar during the day, or planned to attend the theatre concert Out for a sail on Mjøsa lake. Prøysen and Wreswiik in the same boat in the evening, a serving of simple fare in the spirit of Prøysen is both fitting and welcome! In collaboration with Prøysenhuset and Simenstad Guest Farm | NOK 200 (not included in festival pass) OUT FOR A SAIL ON MJØSA LAKE. PRØYSEN AND VREESWIIK IN THE SAME BOAT THURSDAY 6:00 PM | PRØYSENHUSET | THEATER CONCERT A CONVERSATION WITH SLAVENKA DRAKULIC THURSDAY 2:00 – 3:30 PM | THE NANSEN ACADEMY – How shall one write about war and violation? Here songs and texts by two neighbouring countries’ great troubadours will be presented: Alf Prøysen, born just before the First World War, and Cornelis Vreeswijk, born just before 1313 Prøysen from the countryside, from the austere era when people got married once in a lifetime, the time of the little people of humble means in northern Europe, those prone to abstruseness of speech more than hyperbole – the origin of his songs is in the folk song tradition of the Norwegian-Swedish small towns and forests. Vreeswijk from the city, Amsterdam/ Stockholm, with powerful wartime experiences, of an urban generation who married several times, the international artist influenced by blues, samba, the Swedish sailor’s waltz, Finnish tango, French chansons, protest songs from many countries. Prøysen with his fear of water, terrified of being out on the ocean. Vreeswijk an avid swimmer, open-sea diver, sailboat skipper. Great contrasts. And nonetheless, great similarities. Prøysen Norway’s Bellman, the founder of the Norwegian folk song tradition — two centuries after the Swedish fountainhead, the work of whom Cornelis Vreeswijk both learned from and cultivated. Håkon Paulsberg plays the guitar and performs the songs, Jan Erik Vold is our literary guide, storyteller and poetry reader. In collaboration with Prøysenhuset | NOK 200 | The performance is in Norwegian CHILDREN’S BOOK BAR THURSDAY 6:00 PM | CAFÉ STIFT Six authors present their books for children and young people and this evening they will read for curious adults. Hear some of the best of more recent literature for young people. An exciting and fun hour with Lene Ask, Synne 14 Lea, Arnt Birkedal, Christian Valeur, Heidi Sævareid and Isol (winner of ALMA in 2013). Host: Jon Ewo. In collaboration with Norwegian Writers for Children (NBU) | Free of charge | The event will be in Norwegian and English We start out with a meeting with author Julian Barnes, one of the leading figures of British literature, and the winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for his novel The Sense of an Ending. On this occasion Barnes will appear for the first time on stage at a Norwegian literature event, in conversation with Linn Ullmann. KURKOV AND KIEV FRIDAY 23 MAY THURSDAY 22 MAY the Second. Their music captured the spirit of their times like none other. FRIDAY 11:00 AM | LILLEHAMMER KUNSTMUSEUM, KAFEEN | THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT BANAZ – A LOVE STORY THURSDAY 6:00 – 8:30 PM | LILLEHAMMER KINO | FILM Director: Deeyah Kahn. Duration: 70 min. A Norwegian-British documentary from 2012 about Banaz Mahod, the British-Kurdish woman who was murdered in an honour killing in 2006. Banaz filed for divorce and went to the police several times to seek protection from her 17 years older, violent husband from an arranged marriage. She was killed by her family for having fallen in love with another man. The film won the prestigious Emmy Award for the best international TV documentary in 2013. In collaboration with Lillehammer kino and Lillehammer filmklubb NOK 100 GALA EVENING THURSDAY 7:00 - 9:00 PM | MAIHAUGSALEN We celebrate literature with a gala evening that transcends genre definitions. Important novels, short stories and poetry will fill the evening. We look forward to a powerful reading by the Danish star poet and debut author Yahya Hassan, who has had more than 100,000 poetry books sold and otherwise incited the wrath of large portions of the Danish immigrant community with his autobiographical poems. Norway’s leading short story author Kjell Askildsen is considered one of the greatest prose writers of Norwegian post-war literature. He will talk about how he looks back on a long life filled with short stories. He meets Alf van der Hagen for a conversation. Host for the evening: Linn Ullmann. Music by Kristin Sevaldsen and Lars Andre Kvistum. NOK 200 | Book signing and sales The first part is in English Andrej Kurkov is considered one of Ukraine’s most prominent authors and experienced his great literary breakthrough with the satirical novel Picknick on the Ice, a dark, absurd comedy from post-Soviet Ukraine. As a Ukraine citizen with a Russian background and language, Kurkov has one foot in each world, transcending Russian and Ukrainian identities and affiliations. He has in recent times lived in the midst of the uprisings and violence in Kiev, and has written a number of reports from Ukraine for the British media. We ask Kurkov how he sees Ukraine’s immediate future and how the development of the country, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, is depicted in contemporary literature. Moderator: Ane Tusvik Bonde. NOK 100 The conversation will be in English ART MARKET FRIDAY 11:00 AM − 4:00 PM | SIGRID UNDSETS PLASS Some of the foremost handicraftsmen and women from Norway exhibit their works of ceramics, textiles, jewellery, glass, and more. The artisans will be on site and speak about their artworks. Organiser: Lillehammer Sentrum and Galleri Zink 1515 FRIDAY 1:00 PM | SØNDRE PARK | LUNCH IN THE PARK Have a cup of coffee and take pleasure in the spring weather to the accompaniment of readings by Julian Barnes from The Sense of an Ending, Cecilie Enger from Mors gaver (“Mother’s Gifts”), Peter Fröberg Idling from Sang til den storm som skal komme (Song for an Approaching Storm) and Ellen Fjestad from Sammen skal vi holde himmelen (“Together we will hold heaven”). Moderator: Ane Nydal. Free of charge | Book signing and sales The event will be in Norwegian and English. And finally, in-between readings by Linda Klakken from her poetry debut entitled Mamma, kone, slave (“Mum, wife, slave”)– a manifesto and declaration of love for lesbian mothers. Moderator: Ellen Svendsen. NOK 100 | Book signing and sales Parts of the conversation will be in English FRIDAY 5:00 PM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS MEETING FAREWELL TO MOTHER FRIDAY 2:00 PM LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK | NORDIC AUTHORS MEETING At this event we will bid farewell to two mothers and welcome new mothers. Cecilie Enger received the Booksellers Prize last year for the novel Mors gaver (“Mother’s Gifts”). As her mother’s memory is gradually erased by Alzheimer’s, the family history is brought to life when Cecilie finds her mother’s meticulously detailed lists of all of the Christmas gifts from four decades. This is a warm and gripping story about memory and forgetting. Icelandic Sölvi Björn Sigurdsson meets death with a good portion of humour in the novel Siðustu dagar móður minnar (“My Mother’s Last Day”). The son Herman accompanies his mother on a final trip to Amsterdam, where she wants to check in at the Lavland clinic for one last soothing treatment before she dies of terminal cancer. But first she is determined to enjoy life and have one final spree. 16 SVETLANA ALEKSIJEVITSJ ABOUT THE WOMEN’S WAR WHAT’S NEW FROM GREAT BRITAIN? FRIDAY 4:00 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, FESTSALEN INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS MEETING British-Somali Nadifa Mohamed took the reading public by storm with her debut novel Black Mamba Boy in 2010, in which she tells her own father’s story from East Africa. She has now written a second novel also available in Norwegian translation: The Orchard of Lost Souls (De tapte sjelers land). Mohamed’s writing moves between cultures and national borders, between Somalia and London. She was chosen for Granta’s list of Great Britain’s ten most important young authors for this decade, and thereby represents a new and important generation of authors. Moderator: Ellen Svendsen. NOK 100 | Book signing and sales | The event will be in English With the documentary book The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Aleksijevitsj went against the official Soviet depiction of the war effort during the Second World War. The discussion will revolve around how the book came about, and delve into women’s concrete experiences from the war, and how these experiences deviate from those of men. Aleksijevitsj provokes and challenges the Soviet Union’s idealised self-image and sense of pride following the victory in this war – here she will speak about how this was received when her book was published and present the women’s own stories. Svetlana Aleksijevitsj in conversation with her Swedish publisher Ola Wallin. NOK 100 | Interpretation of the conversation into Russian and Norwegian BANK NIGHT FRIDAY 8:00 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN During Bank Night, it will simmer and seethe both inside and out of Kulturhuset Banken. Take part in cheering on the best poetry slammers who will come out swinging in the Holbøsalen. Move on down to Café Stift to be led into a world of Bowie and Berlin. If you wish to expand your repertoire with a bit of yodelling, you can stop by at Festsalen, where Polkabjørn and Kleine Heine will give you an experience you will never forget. At Holbøsalen Kate Pendry changes tack for the occassion to appear as her alter ego Johnny Johnson. Finally, Balkan rhythms will lead you out into the summer night and you can dance up a sweat to Solfrid Molland and the local heroes Jo Skaansar and Hayden Powell, who for the occasion have with them Pascal de Loutchek from Russia. Tickets NOK 350. The evening’s bank director: Adrian Todd Zuniga from USA POETRY SLAM 8:00 PM BOWIE IN BERLIN! 9:00 PM POLKABJØRN AND KLEINE HEINE 10:00 PM KATE PENDRY A.K.A. JOHNNY JOHNSON 10:30 PM SOLFRID MOLLAND TRIO WITH PASCAL DE LOUTCHEK 11:30 PM FRIDAY 23 MAY FRIDAY 23 MAY FRIDAY LUNCH HOLBØSALEN CAFÉ STIFT FESTSALEN HOLBØSALEN FESTSALEN POETRY SLAM FRIDAY 8:00 PM | CAFÉ STIFT A poetry slam is a competition situated somewhere between a poetry reading, stand-up and the spoken word. Participants are judged on the basis of both the text they perform and how they perform it. The audience decides! The Norwegian poetry slam championship is being organised this year for the ninth time and the winner in Lillehammer will go on to the final which will be held in Oslo in the autumn. Show up and take part in choosing the national champion! Do you want to take part in the slam? Contact [email protected]/ 406 06 499. See www.foreningenles.no. In collaboration with Foreningen !les | The event will be in Norwegian 1717 Torgrim Eggen wrote his first article about David Bowie’s Berlin period for the journal Ballade in 1983. In this music lecture, based on the book Berlin. Det 20. århundrets hovedstad, (”Berlin. The capital of the 20th century”) he will tell us about the powerful convergence of Bowie’s musical and political ideas for a period of a few of years in the shadow of the Wall. The result was a type of music that set the tone for an entire generation and which is still experienced as current, even 37 years later. The lecture was held for the first time at the House of Literature in September and has been met with great enthusiasm on the part of many and vexed the eardrums of others. The event will be in Norwegian. POLKABJØRN AND KLEINE HEINE FRIDAY 10:00 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, FESTSALEN | CONCERT Spur of the moment participation in the Yodelling Festival in Huttwil, Switzerland in the summer of 2007 produced the duo Polkabjørn & Kleine Heine. A mere five years later, they have performed for both royalty and ragamuffins, literally. Polkabjørn is not only one of Northern Europe’s best yodeller but he has also become a proper overtone singer. Accordion virtuoso Kleine Heine was at the age of 14 a well-established jazz musician and was also renowned jazz musician Ola Kvernberg’s former sidekick. Heine is now studying at the 18 Grieg Academy in Bergen and has grown out of the shadow of his former mentors. It is impossible to be fully prepared emotionally for what you will experience at Kulturhuset Banken on this evening. cultural heritage is the theme! Musicians: Solfrid Molland (vocals, accordian, piano) Pascal de Loutchek (vocals, guitar) Hayden Powell (trumpet) Jo Skaansar (contrabass) A refreshing start to the day with readings by Mona Høvring from Camillas lange netter (“Camilla’s Long Nights”), Josefine Klougart from Om mørke, (“On Darkness”) along with Andrej Kurkov ("Picnic on Ice") and Eivind Evjemo ("Det siste du skal se er et ansikt av kjærlighet"). Moderator: Ane Nydal Free of charge | The event will be in Norwegian and English breaking when the book was published in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. She has also interviewed hundreds of people who experienced first-hand the consequences of the Chernobyl accident in the book Voices from Chernobyl. Åsne Seierstad has as an author and reporter worked with descriptions of the realities in a number of regions at war. In this conversation they will speak about how they work with documentary materials and approach this reality by allowing the personal voices, stories and eye witness accounts emerge. Moderator Ellen Svendsen has worked in Jerusalem and Kabul, and has a background from freelance journalism. NOK 100 | Simultaneous interpretation of the conversation into Russian and Norwegian. | Book signing and sales ART MARKET GARDEN STROLL SATURDAY 11:30 AM | AULESTAD Some of the foremost handicraftsmen and women from Norway exhibit their work in ceramics, textiles, jewellery, glass, etc. The artists themselves will be on site and talk about their own artworks. Organiser: Lillehammer Sentrum and Galleri Zink SATURDAY LUNCH SATURDAY MORNING SATURDAY 11:00 AM SØNDRE PARK | MORNING IN THE PARK JOHNNY IN THE BANK FRIDAY 10:30 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, HOLBØSALEN A rare opportunity to meet Johnny Johnson – Kate Pendry’s friend, alter ego, and the man inside every woman! «At her best, Kate Pendry can conjure up the now deceased comedian Bill Hicks. With an aggressive and profoundly felt humanism they both have the ability to hit the nail on the head of political issues and they share the same off-colour humor.» Morgenbladet The event will be in English SOLFRID MOLLAND TRIO (NORWAY) WITH PASCAL DE LOUTCHEK (RUSSIA) FRIDAY 11:30 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, FESTSALEN | CONCERT The evening is wound up by a concert with a Eastern European flavour, in the manner of Russian and Romanian music and Molland’s own compositions in rapid transitions between passionate velocity and beautiful melancholy. The music culture of the Romani people and their positive influence on our European SATURDAY 11:00 AM | SIGRID UNDSETS PLASS THOSE WITHOUT VOICE TAKE THE FLOOR SATURDAY 11:00 AM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS MEETING Svetlana Aleksijevitsj from the Republic of Belarus in conversation with Åsne Seierstad. Drawing from her book The Unwomanly Face of War Aleksijevitsj offers insights on her work of documenting Soviet women’s history from World War II, something which was ground- SATURDAY 24 MAY FRIDAY 23 MAY BOWIE AND BERLIN FRIDAY 9:00 PM | CAFÉ STIFT Get to know Aulestad’s garden where Bjoernsstjerne Bjoernson lived. Gardener Bjørn Mølmen takes us on a stroll and tells us about the original garden and how it came to be the garden we see today. Organiser: Aulestad | NOK 100 SATURDAY 1:00 PM | SØNDRE PARK | LUNCH IN THE PARK Readings by Nadifa Mohamed The Orchard of the Lost Souls, Nina Lykke Oppløsningstendenser (“Disintegration”), Knut Nærum Nordmenn som rimer (“Norwegians Who Rhyme”), Maria Parr Tonje Glimmerdal and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (”The Unwanted”). Moderator: Ane Nydal. Free of charge | Book signing and sales | The event will be in Norwegian and English 1919 CUBAN AUTHORS MEETING SATURDAY 6:00 PM | CAFÉ STIFT Meet two of Cuba’s most prominent and celebrated authors who are visiting Lillehammer together for the first time. Leonardo Padura is Cuba’s king of crime fiction. He has received a number of awards and commemorations for his prolific literary production and his work has also been translated into a long list of languages. He is especially well-known for the Havana quartet, where we meet the unconventional investigator Mario Conde who brings us along into a Cuba we had no idea existed. Wendy Guerra has made her mark internationally especially for her novels, which offer an unvarnished portrait of the living conditions in Cuba. Although she is still not allowed to publish her novels in her own country, she has established herself as a nationally known radio voice and poet. Meet the authors, both of whom are launching books during the festival, in conversation with literary scholar and Cuba expert Hans Jacob Ohldieck from the University of Bergen. NOK 100 | Simultaneous interpretation of the conversation into Spanish and Norwegian. Russian drama (2011) by Andrej Zvjaglntsev. 1 hour and 50 min. The winner of the jury’s prize at Cannes 2011 and the prize for the best film at the Tromsø International Film Festival, the film asks a number of fundamental moral questions and is simultaneously a subtle analysis of today’s Russia. The tension in the film is propelled forward by the main character’s dillemma and the choices she makes. In the exquisite, long takes, often without dialogue and sparingly accompanied by Philip Glass’ original music, director Andrej Zvjagintsev and actress Nadezhda Markina produce a strong character study and a nuanced portrait of a woman who is neither a heroine nor a victim. NOK 100 ICELANDIC HORROR WITH YRSA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR SUNDAY 12:00 AM | CAFÉ STIFT She has been nominated for the Nordic Glass Key award and is considered Iceland’s queen of the crime fiction genre: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is the author behind the series about Thóra Gudmundsdóttir and also a number of individual crime novels. Her most recent crime novel, De uønskede, (”The Unwanted”) follows the hero Óðinn Hafsteinsson and his investigation of suspicions of child abuse at Krokur, a treatment facility for boys from the 1970s. The investigations disclose an inhuman regime under which two boys have died under brutal circumstances. In conversation with Mette Karlsvik. Free of charge | Book signing and sales The event will be in English STEIN TORLEIF BJELLA SUNDAY 8:00 – 9:30 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, FESTSALEN | CONCERT Loneliness and the life of small town Norway are recurring themes in Bjella’s melancholy lyrics. He has called for greater awareness of the importance of lyrics on the part of Norwegian musicians and is considered one of Norway’s foremost lyricists. For Vonde visu (Oh Yeah!) (Songs of Pain (Oh Yeah!)), released in 2011, he was awarded the Norwegian music prizes Spellemannprisen, Prøysenprisen and Bendiksenprisen. In Heim for å døy (Home to die) (2013), his last album, a darker Bjella emerges. With greater variation and a rougher expression he delivers a modern Norwegian classic. NOK 350 | The event will be in Norwegian. EXHIBITIONS: FESTIVAL EXHIBITION FEATURING HÅKON GULLVÅG AND SLIMAN MANSOUR The artists meet: Håkon Gullvåg and Sliman Mansour 20 MAY until 14 juni Sliman Mansour is a Palestinian painter. He is viewed as one of the foremost artists in Palestine. In Mansour’s works, the Israeli occupation is a consistent and recurring theme. He is co-author of the book Both Sides of Peace. Håkon Gullvåg was born in Trondheim in 1959, and works primarily in Trondheim and Oslo. As a painter he has held a key position on the Norwegian arts scene since his artistic breakthrough at Galleri Dobloug in 1983, and his work has been purchased by a number of important institutions. Since 1995 Gullvåg’s ornamentation of churches has given him a position as one of the country’s foremost artists in the field of church art. Parallel to this he has received great recognition for his many portraits of persons of significance in Norway. In the past ten years Gullvåg has also worked with the graphic arts and is best known for his lithographs but in recent years has also developed an interest in gravure printing. Organiser: Galleri Zink | Exhibition opening 20 MAY at 5:00 PM EXHIBITIONS SATURDAY 24 / SUNDAY 25 MAY 20 ELENA SATURDAY 5:30 PM | LILLEHAMMER KINO | FILM A THOUSAND THREADS – A STORY TOLD IN TEXTILES With this comprehensive exhibition the Lillehammer Art Museum and Maihaugen join forces in throwing light on the history of textile art’s beautiful creations, from utility objects to freestanding and thought provoking contemporary artworks. A selection of textile works from the 900s up to the 1800s provides the framework for the Maihaugen presentation. The Lillehammer Art Museum continues the story by allowing the textile objects to depart from the realm of usage and instead take the pulse of the contemporary expression of today. Organiser: Lillehammer Kunstmuseum and Maihaugen | The exhibition will run from 23 Nov. 2013 – 1 June 2014. 2121 CONTACT Festival pass NOK 1350 (Norwegian book club members, Peer Gynt volunteers and seniors NOK 1080 and students NOK 675. ) Week-end pass NOK 900 (Norwegian book club members, Peer Gynt volunteers and seniors NOK 720 and students NOK 450. ) Day pass NOK 450. 61 24 71 66 | [email protected] PO Box 4, NO-2601 Lillehammer www.litteraturfestival.no Per Dybvig is an illustrator and painter. He is considered one of Norway’s foremost picture book illustrators and has illustrated a number of books and for newspapers. His illustrated works include Reven og grisungen (“Fox and Piglet”) by Bjørn Rørvik, Doctor Proctor by Jo Nesbø, the books about Samson and Roberto by Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Foreldrekrigen (“Parents at War”) by Erika Flatland and the books about Svein and Rotta by Marit Nicolaisen. His illustrations are often described as dishevelled, absurd, rowdy, playful, free-spirited and amusing. In collaboration with Galleri Zink. The exhibition will be in place on the 2nd floor starting 21 MAY. A LARGE THANK YOU GOES TO: All of the volunteers, all collaborators, all of the venues and eateries and all others who have helped make the festival possible. Thank you for your support. EBillett - Electronic ticketing system Tickets can be purchased in a number of ways: Ticket sales close at 11 PM the evening before an event, and open one half-hour before the event at the door. 1. 2. 3. Click on «Program 2014» on our website www.litteraturfestival.no and find the event you want to attend. Select “kjøp billett” (buy ticket). If you have a smart phone you can upload the app eBillett and add Norsk Litteraturfestival (Norwegian Festival of Literature) as the site. 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