www.kapittel.com Mayor Leif JohanSevland Welcome 08! toKapittel guestswhobring theworldtoStavanger.welcome anumberofinternational hastheabilitytobuildbridgeswheretherearewalls,Literature to andwearehappy areraisedanddiscussedduringthefestival. political situation thereisawallbetweenthecities.Now theproblemsconcerningthis that Iamhappy visitedStavanger.Netanya. visitedboths citiesandtheirmayorshave Imyselfhave isafriendshipcitywithNablusonthe West BankandtheIsraelicityof and Palestine. conflict intheMiddleEasthasleadtonewphysicalbarriersbetweenpeopleIsrael lead tophysicalwallsincitieslikeBerlinandBelfast, the andtodayweseehow ourselvesisfarfrom agivenelsewhereintheworld.allow Historicalconflictshave With thisyear’s theme wecan Walls theopennessthat thefestivalremindsusthat take partintheprotectionoffreeword. need ourprotection, andfreedomofspeechwewill andwithafestivalofliterature tel’s guests. As acityofrefugeforpersecutedwriterswewillbeportthosewho it isasahospitableport, opentonewvoicesandimpulses,- we willreceiveKapit that ofcultureunderthesloganOpenPort, isaEuropean capital This yearStavanger and Festival and Freedom ofLiterature ofSpeech. International 08–Stavanger pleasureforme towelcomeyouKapittel It isagreat Welcome toKapittel08! Walls |8–14September2008 Festival International andFreedomStavanger ofLiterature ofSpeech Walls

| Kapittel08

murer | walls 8 Kapittel 08

Walls! The theme of Kapittel 08 is Walls. With this we will We are very happy to be able to continue last year’s pilot explore how physical walls, like we have seen them split project Kapittel Film, a dedicated film program with a peoples, cities and countries, affect life and literature. series of viewings that raise this year’s festival theme. Some of the places that the festival will take us to are Here we will visually get the documentary highlights that Belfast and Berlin via Istanbul and a devastated Pales- show us walls in Belfast, Berlin and Palestine, as well as tine, to walls in North Korea and China. other treats for a film-loving audience.

Our guests include the Palestinian writer Mahmoud Naturally, we are also proud to present a lot of the best Shukair, Berlin’s most hard-working feature writer from of national and international fiction and non-fiction the East side of the wall, Thomas Brussig, and the Nestor literature. With great international names such as Narud- of Graphic novels, Guy Delisle , who has made cartoon din Farah, Siri Hustvedt and Rabih Alameddine, or the stories from China as well as North Korea. Former Norwegian best sellers and Tore Norwegian Broadcast correspondent of the British Isles, Renberg, we know that the Kapittel audience have a lot Annette Groth, and author Glenn Patterson from Northern to look forward to. Ireland have both written with insight about Belfast. Wall historian Frederick Taylor will give us Berlin in text and New to the festival this year is that we let other voices images, and the Turkish multi-artist Omer Zülfü Livaneli, and perspectives into the festival manager’s chair. We a warm defender of the Turkish-Greek friendship will also have invited three cultural institutions given free rein as be there. curators of one scene for one night. The three that have accepted the challenge are the newly established pub- Stavanger is a 2008 European Capital of Culture under lishing house Flamme Forlag, the magazine Kraftsentrum the vision Open Port, where the cultural centre Sølvberget and the Stavanger based Numusic, which will give a beat participate with their own project The Arts of Hospitality. to literature with their concept Nuliterature. In the philosophical main symposium The Conditions of Hospitality the role of host will be problematised. In Nor- Welcome to Kapittel 08! way we also celebrate the year of multitude this year and the EU celebrate the Year of Intercultural Dialogue. Helen Eirik Bø, festival manager Oyeyemi, Madeleine Thien, Marina Lewycka and Mustafa Can all describe culture clashes in books that have found readers far across their own borders.

We will also put focus on the mental walls that define our notion of topics such as race, sex and class. Literature has always been a debate arena for these topics and is an important source of insight into other people’s every- day lives. At the same time, literature has its own walls, This is an extract of this year’s in the shape of genres, and the increasingly flammable program listing events in English/English divide between high and low. These subjects will be ad- subtitles. dressed during the festival. Out of the Darkness | 40 years of Northern Press Photograph

Exhibition Out of the Darkness | 40 years of Northern Press Photograph KULTURTORGET, free

This year’s Kapittel exhibition The Kapittel exhibition this year is closely linked to the festival theme: Walls. Belfast is one of the cities that through its history makes one of the three wall cities that we pay special attention to during the festival.

The exhibition renders visible forty years of press photography in Northern Ireland, and was produced in association with the 25th anniversary of the Northern Ireland Press Photographers Association. Out of the Darkness contains memorable, intense and moving prize shots which reflect the dramatic history of the province and its change from the turbulence of the 1970s to the more peaceful political situation of today. The exhibition gives good insight into an extraordinary era of Northern Ireland’s his- tory. Several of the photos have made history nationally as well as internationally, thereby contributing to shedding some light on the conflict.

During the festival there will be tours of the exhibition venue Kulturtorget in relation to events connected to the conflict in Northern Ireland. The tours are offered as part of the event and to

those in possession of a festival pass. Stanley Matchett Foto:

Peter Richards is curator of the exhibition on behalf of the Northern Ireland Press Photographers Association. The exhibition is organised in cooperation between The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast and Sølvberget’s gallery Kulturtorget.

Tours: Saturday 13 September 11am-12 Saturday 13 September 4pm-5pm Tuesday September 9th 9 September

12-2pm: Walls | Mini seminar Library in the shadow of the wall Cultural library, Sølvberget, free, in English With Sami Batrawi, Hani Jaber, Anne Hustad and Aud Jorunn Aano. About cultural work and the role of the libraries in Palestine: Cen- sorship of book packs and limited communication are just some of the problems librarians in an occupied and confined Palestine have to struggle with. At the same time literature, information and culture are important to the further development of society. The Norwegian Library Association cooperates with its Palestine equivalent PLIA to contribute to international contacts and com- petence building. The seminar is organised in cooperation with the Norwegian Library Association and with support from The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority.

3pm-4.30pm: Kapittel Film Waltz with Bashir (2008, 90 mins) KINO1, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr. English subtitles. Directed by Ari Folman. Animated documentary where the director Ari Folman shows a piece of strong cinematic work of recollection about his past as an Israeli soldier during the war in Lebanon in 1982. The film was a sensation during the Cannes festival earlier this year. “Could easily turn out to be one of the most powerful statements of this Cannes and will leave its mark forever on the ethics of war films in general.” (Dan Fainaru, Screen Daily) Wednesday September 10th 10 September

2pm-3pm: Walls | Conversation 7.30pm-8.30pm: Graphic novel | Meet an author Living with the wall Illustrated KULT.KAFEEN, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, in English 3rd floor, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, in English With Anne Hege Simonsen, Naseer Arafat and Mahmoud Shukair. With Guy Delisle and Lars Gundersen (host). What is it like living with the wall as a massive, complicating Whether it is a graphic novel, travelogue or a cartoon report, so and threatening element? One Norwegian scholar and journal- be it. In Pyongyang Guy Delisle gives us his bizarre experiences ist, a Palestinian architect and a Palestinian author share their travelling and working in isolated North Korea. Delisle also has a thoughts on how the wall at the West Bank affects cultural and series of illustrated stories from China and Burma and presents everyday life. himself today as one of leading men of his genre.

3pm-4.30pm: Kapittel Film The Iron Wall (2006, 59 mins) KINO1, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, English subtitles Directed by Mohammed Alatar. Introduction by Kjetil Finne. Documentary about the Israeli barrier on the West Bank. The film shows how this construction is a cornerstone in the politics of the Israeli state. The building of the wall, which occupies Palestine areas, is condemned by large parts of international society.

5.30pm-7.30pm: Kapittel Film Crossing the Line (2006, 94 mins) KINO1, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr. English subtitles Directed by Daniel Gordon. Introduction by Guy Delisle. Daniel Gordon’s documentary deals with the incredible story of American soldiers stationed in South Korea in the 1960s. They defected and fled to North Korea. Here we meet James Dresnok, who became a big movie star playing an American villain in North Korean propaganda films.

6pm-7pm: Novel | Meet an author American sorrow – Norwegian blues With Siri Hustvedt and Sigrun Hodne (host). Meet the American-Norwegian favourite of critics and readers Siri Hustvedt whose recent work includes the essay collection A Plea for Eros and the novel The Sorrows of an American. In this novel her Norwegian roots are really brought into focus through the character and psychologist Erik Davidsen, who in many ways reflects the author’s own biography. Thursday September 11th 11 September

2pm-3pm: Walls | Lecture 8.30pm-9.30pm: Stories for Life | Meet an author A wall – a tool – for what? The Hakawati, the storyteller 3rd floor, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, in English KULT.KAFEEN, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, in English With Naseer Arafat. With Rabih Alameddine. Naseer Arafat is the architect and city planner from Nablus who The ICORN project Shahrazad – Stories for Life presents the is concerned with what constructions like the wall do to people, Lebanese author Rabih Alameddine and his novel The Hakawati. culture and landscape that are divided and confined. A wall is The Hakawati is Arabic for the storyteller and is the title of one more than a construction, it is also a political tool. of this year’s literary sensations: “If any novel would be strong enough to overpower mountains of polemics, historic research, political analysis and reports that stand between the Western 3pm-4pm: Kapittel Film reader and the Arab soul, it has got to be this wonder of a book.” Last Supper (Abu Dis) (2005, 20 mins) (New York Times) KINO1, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, English subtitles Directed by Issa Freij and Nicholas Wadimoff. 9pm-11pm: Kapittel Curator: Flamme Forlag Introduction by Sami Batrawi. Pop Pop Flamme Night Last Supper is a documentary that depicts the final phase of CEMENTEN, Nedre Strandgt 23, 120 (50) kr, in Norwegian the construction of the Israeli separation wall in the Palestinian village of Abu Dis. The village is beautifully situated on a height Featuring Lars Saabye Christensen, Geir Gulliksen (virtually), just outside Jerusalem, but now the view is limited to eight metre Jenny Hval (Rockettothesky), Bendik Wold and Nils-Øivind Haa- high wall elements. gensen among others. Within just a couple of hours the publishing house Flamme Forlag hope to give back to the pop concept the cred that the Irish gi- 5pm-5.30pm: New Chapter | Reading ants U2 took from it with their record Pop, the single Discothèque Two caravans and a strawberry field and their Popmart Tour almost exactly ten years ago. It will also BØKER & BØRST, Øvre Holmegate 32, free, in English be about pop and literature when FF host this event at Cementen on Thursday night. This means that there will be some reading, With Marina Lewycka. some singing and some talking in the seam that keeps the two Lewycka reads from her new novel where the young and inno- large fields united as well as separated. cent Irina comes to England from Ukraine with dreams of a new and better life. It soon turns out that the promised country in the Best regards, west is far from the paradise she imagined.

Bendik Wold and Nils-Øivind Haagensen

5.30pm-7pm: Kapittel Film Send a Bullet (Manda Bala) (2007, 85 mins) KINO1, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, English subtitles Directed by Jason Kohn. Jason Kohn’s Sundance-winning Send a Bullet explores class dif- ferences in today’s Brazilian society. The country that is charac- terised by a pulsating cultural life, rainforest and beautiful sandy beaches has over the past years become equally infamous for kidnapping, corruption and plastic surgery. Friday September 12th 12 September

2pm-3pm: Walls | Lecture 5.30pm-7.30pm: Kapittel Film The Berlin Wall The Wall (Die Mauer) (1990, 99 mins) 3rd floor, Sølvberget, 50 kr, in English KINO1, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr With Frederick Taylor. Directed by Jürgen Böttcher. The English historian Frederick Taylor has with The Berlin Wall Introduction by Frederick Taylor. given us the history of the wall that divided a whole world. This Jürgen Böttcher’s documentary has no voices or commentaries. is not just the story of 28 years in Berlin, but about Germany and The Wall is a visual story that documents the deconstruction of the global political climate in the 20th century. A lecture in words the Berlin Wall from different perspectives. and images.

6pm-7pm: Kult.Author | Meet an author 3pm-5.30pm: Kapittel Film Turkish bliss and misfortune Bliss (Mutluluk) (2007, 126 mins) KULT.KAFEEN, Sølvberget, 50 kr, in English KINO1, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, English subtitles With Omer Zülfü Livaneli and Ellen Svendsen (host). Directed by Abdullah Oguz. Turkish musician, film maker, activist, politician and author Omer Introduction by Omer Zülfü Livaneli. Zülfü Livaneli has a life that could fill a festival of its own. His A prize-winning Turkish film with two parallel story lines. A 17 first novel to be presented to a Norwegian readership this year year old girl on the run after having dishonoured her family, and is Bliss, which has been translated into several languages, made a renowned sociology professor who leaves his life in Istanbul into a film and awarded for its lyrical and provocative portrayal after an identity crisis. The film is based on Omer Zülfü Levaneli’s of limitations and contradictions in the modern that his novel Bliss. protagonists travel through.

5pm-6pm: Novel | Meet an author 7pm-8pm: Walls | Conversation Focal point Mogadishu The writing on the wall KULTURTORGET, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, in English KULTURTORGET, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr With Nuruddin Farah and Fredrik Wandrup (host) With Thomas Brussig, Glenn Patterson, Mahmoud Shukair and Farah is a star on the African literary sky, shining over a gloomy Fredrik Wandrup (host). landscape of civil war and clans in his native Somalia. In Nor- Three cities, three walls and three authors. We’ll travel from wegian he is found with the book Links, and the sequel in the Belfast, via Berlin to Jerusalem with three literary witnesses who forthcoming civil war trilogy Knots, is being translated. While in different ways have created their literature in the shadow of a Links dealt with the clan identity, Knots is characterised by the wall. increasing influence of the Islamists and religion. Farah, who is widely mentioned as one of Africa’s hottest candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature, shows that politics are run by close relations and that women hold the key to a better future. Friday September 12th 12 September

8pm-9pm: Novel | Meet an author Borderless literature KULT.KAFEEN, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, in English With Helen Oyeyemi, Madeleine Thien and Ellen Svendsen (host). Nigerian-English Helen Oyeyemi has with The Opposite House delivered an exotic and original novel about not finding one’s place, about having each foot in a different world, about search- ing for one’s own language and one’s own geographic location. Madeleine Thien was born in Vancouver to Malaysian-Chinese parents. Certainty is her critically acclaimed debut novel. It has been translated into several languages and has earned her a number of awards. Meet two young authors who both write about and live out double identities and culture clashes.

8.30pm-11pm: Kapittel Curator | Kraftsentrum Power-centric melodrama FOLKEN, Løkkeveien 24, 120 (50) kr With Johan Harstad, Jon Øystein Flink, Daniel Sjölin (Sweden), Catharina Gripenberg (Finland), Agnes Ravatn, Kjersti Rorgemoen, and Gunnhild Øyehaug. On the ukulele: . Ending with: Mini concert by Egil Olsen. Where has melodrama gone in contemporary literature? Where are the deep sighs and the despair, and the rush of those great feelings? This is what the magazine Kraftsentrum welcome you to wonder about on Friday 12 September. We have invited some of the most exciting authors of Norway and the Nordic region for a power-centric cracking evening of reading, debate and music. Welcome!

Best regards, Olaug Nilssen and Gunnhild Øyehaug Saturday September 13th 13 September

2pm-3pm: Walls | Meet an author 5pm-6pm: Walls | Meet an author The Wall Revisited Protestant gone astray 3rd floor, Sølvberget, 50 kr, in English KULTURTORGET, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, in English With Thomas Brussig and Benedikt Jager (host). With Glenn Patterson and Annette Groth (host). Thomas Brussig’s novels are a work of recollection of the East Belfast writer Glenn Patterson’s books show a partiality to con- German state that disappeared after the fall of the wall and the flicts, cities and the relationship between national and individual Berlin which was the political and social laboratory where it split history which is a natural cause of his hometown’s history. At the Europe. Brussig became known to a Norwegian audience with In end of the 1980s he became the leading figure among a genera- the Shorter end of Sonnenallee. “It does not deal with the past, tion of authors who developed new and fresh perspectives on it deals with how we always glorify the past”, says the author, “the troubles” in Northern Ireland. called East Germany’s answer to Nick Hornby.

5pm-6pm: Next Chapter | Reading 3pm-4pm: Stories from the Front | Conversation Oyeyemi and Thien read The Word and the Sword BØKER & BØRST, Øvre Holmegate 32, free, in English KULTURTORGET, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, in English With Helen Oyeyemi and Madeleine Thien. With Nuruddin Farah and Rabih Alameddine. Two young voices take us on a trip through five continents. Helen The main characters in Farah’s and Alameddine’s latest books Oyeyemi reads from her new novel The Opposite House, where return after a long absence to their home cities Mogadishu and Nigerian religion meets Cuban revolution and santeria in the Beirut which have been devastated by civil war. Experience two backstreets of London. Madeleine Thien reads from Certainty, of the world’s leading storytellers in dialogue about the word as which is a trip both through time and identity, from Canada to an explosive force and a bridge builder in some of the worst Amsterdam and with South East Asia as a background. conflicts of our time. Organised in cooperation with Shahrazad – Stories for Life. 5.30pm-7pm: Kapittel Film Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms (2006, 90 mins) 3pm-5pm: Kapittel Film KINO1, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, English subtitles A Million Bricks (1999, 90 mins) Directed by Sander Franken. KINO1, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, no subtitles Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms is a political documentary Directed by Frank Martin and Seamus Kelters. about the uncontrolled trade of small arms and its influence on Introduction by Glenn Patterson. multitudes of people in many developing countries. A Million Bricks refers to the neighbourhood Springfield Park in West Belfast, which was built in the 1960s. Catholics and Protes- tants lived here in harmony before the conflict between national- 6pm-7pm: Novel | Meet an author ists and loyalists broke out in the 1970s. Camping with Lewycka 3rd floor, Sølvberget, 80 (50) kr, in English With Marina Lewycka and Ellen Svendsen (host). Two caravans is about creating one’s own life – against all odds. It’s funny, sharp and moving and contains all the same qualities that made a great success of Lewycka’s last book, A Short His- tory of the Tractor in Ukrainian. She also writes with great insight and powerful political sting about the conditions of guest workers in modern Europe, which earned her a nomination for this year’s Saturday September 13th 13 September

Orwell prize for political literature. 9pm-03.30am: Kapittel Curator | Numusic Nuliterature and Kapittel Night TOU SCENE, Lervigsveien 22, 120 (50) kr Join us in tearing down a genre wall! In collaboration with Tou Scene and Numusic we present a ground-breaking night where we challenge all the traditional categories that literature operates under.

SCENE 1: Numusic’s ongoing mission to create events and environments where academics can rediscover “the groove” and club cultural refugees are encouraged to “reflect” will again be in evidence at this year’s Kapittel Festival. Previous Nu/Kapittel collaborations have included sell out shows as well as concerts and events from luminary artists. 2008 sees Numusic tackle the theme of “Nulit- erature”, can you dance to words, and should you?

Word!

Martyn Reed Numusic – West Coast Festival of New Music

SCENE 2: Power Point Poetry | At the publishing house Flamme author John Erik Riley has committed his poetry debut Secret Services about retired CIA agents, Death Cab For Cutie and jokes without punch- lines. His poems are accompanied by the author’s own photos.

Stunt Illustration | Cartoonist Flu Hartberg from the cartoon com- mune Dongery, illustrates live unpublished poems by Markus Midré on a big screen while they are read by the writer.

Lyrictronica | Mini concert where the authors and musicians Erik Honoré and Nils Christian Moe-Repstad present lyrics and electronica from their Punkt Festival projects.

The night is ended with DJs/VJs until the early hours. Sunday September 14th 14 September

3pm-4.30pm: Kapittel Film Yodok Stories (2008, 82 mins) KINO1, Sølvberget, (closed viewing), English subtitles Directed by Andrzej Fidyk. Piraya Film and Kapittel invite you to a closed viewing of the brand new Yodok Stories. In concentration camps in North Korea there are between 200,000 and 500,000 prisoners at all times. Naturally, it is impossible to film the camps, but when the film makers met North Korean defectors in Seoul, South Korea, they realised that it would be possible to get on the inside of the camps after all.

4pm-6pm: Refleks seminar: China’s growth What Does China Think? KULTURTORGET, Sølvberget, free, in English With Mark Leonard, Henning Kristoffersen, Cecilie F. Bakke, Wei Chen, Ågot Valle and Ellen Svendsen (host). The Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre, has initiated the project “Refleks – Norwegian interests in a globa- lised world” and opens for thinking and debate about the content of Norwegian foreign affairs for new times. During Kapittel 08 it is China’s growth and its consequences for the rest of the world that will be debated. Mark Leonard (author of the book What Does China Think) is the main introducer and will meet a quali- fied and committed panel for discussion. Organised in coopera- tion with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.