English www.litteraturfestival.no Program 2016 Høydepunkter

Highlights The Norwegian Festival of Literature 2016 Dear festival visitors, Welcome to six We are also putting the spotlight on the days of festival activities! Some 400 refugee crisis faced by and the rest authors and artists will be taking part of Europe. What is the background of the in more than 200 events! Whether you refugee crisis? What are the refugees fleeing are coming specifically to experience from and what are they coming to? What is , Richard Ford, Ariana taking place in the debate climate, what is Reines or Compagnon, or are planning happening to us and what is in fact correct to take things as they come, you can rest and sustainable? The festival has more assured that the Lillehammer festival will questions than answers, and that is why we provide you with good experiences and have invited experts and writers who have pleasant people. You have made a good in-depth expertise on the complex issues. We decision! You are welcome! We hope you are looking forward to interesting discussions will have a wonderful time! and hopefully proposals for solutions. The refugee theme is a leitmotif running through For this year’s festival the USA is the region this year’s programme. Follow The Asylum in focus and there is a reason for this. March 2016, from Trondheim to Lillehammer, Norwegian books are selling like never before take part in the debate about on the other side of the Atlantic, while the radicalisation or hear a presentation of per- awareness of American literature is growing secuted writers from Norwegian Cities of due to increased access, both digitally and in Asylum. terms of language. It is therefore our pleasure to present a series of American authors who Since the last festival, the Lillehammer cinema each in their own fashion exemplify something has been refurbished and expanded to house new within the wealth of literary flora. 5 theatres. The Viksjø facade from 1963 has been restored and wishes the audience In the course of the week you will meet welcome. We will celebrate with a diverse and new stars from both poetry and prose. The interesting film programme. Before we watch poets Ariana Reines, Julian T. Brolaski and the prize-winning documentary The Look of CAConrad are big new names in American Silence, we will meet Joshua Oppenheimer in poetry, a genre which in recent years has conversation with Ivo de Figueiredo through been just as much about staging of the Skype. Another documentary that will be self as literary style. Rebecca Dinerstein, shown is The Book of Conrad. This is a true Alexandra Kleeman and Frank Bill are crime documentary about hate crime in the USA, extremely diverse prose authors, but what and an author’s search for the truth. they have in common is that they write from the inside of a reality available only through The programme for children and young literature. A number of Richard Ford’s short people is varied and comprehensive. And for story collections and novels are available in adult spectators interested in children and Norwegian translation. He is one of the USA’s young people’s literature, there is enough on most prominent authors and we are looking the programme to fill no less than two whole forward to welcoming him back. Are you festival days. But remember: the Norwegian among those who had the chance to experi- Festival of Literature is also Lunch in the park, ence him at the Norwegian Festival of Litera- the Critics Seminar, The Translator’s Hour and ture in 2005? Regardless, this spring you will the Non-fiction Seminar. It is the writers you again have the opportunity. meet on the pedestrian street, the atmosphere at Teltet just before the taps are closed for

2 Høydepunkter the night, the burgers or the wraps you buy Highlights from the food truck on the Stortorget square, Highlights the words flooding out of the loudspeakers, the trees lush with green leaves and all of the people. We have been looking forward to this The opening for a long time. At long last it’s time for the Take part in a sensual and poetic journey festival! where Norway and the world, literature and other forms of artistic expression meet. Welcome! Participants include Laila Bokhari, Aasne Linnestå, Maja S. K. Ratkje, Stian Carstensen Marit Borkenhagen Festival Director and Nama Jafari. Read more on p. 8 Mathias R. Samuelsen Artistic Adviser Anne-Thea L. Haavind Head of Pegasus Annette Seglem Festival Coordinator Closing The festival winds down as reads a selection of his own poems in interaction with Mathias Eick on the trumpet and Eyolf Dale on the grand piano. Read more on p. 18

Laila Bokhari Lars Saabye Christensen

CAConrad Book of Conrad The poet CAConrad describes his upbringing as follows: “born on 1 January in 1966, son of a single white trash mother who taught him how to shoplift from stores and sell flowers on the side of the road.” Today he is one of the USA’s most important poets and will come to Lillehammer with literature and a film. The film is a documentary about how he returns to Tennessee to solve the murder of his ex-lover. Read more on p.10

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Highlights Garden party and closing Alexandra Kleeman at Teltet Come along into the still-light summer evening for a barbecue, wine, readings and music in the garden of the Nansen Academy. , Karolina Ramqvist and Birger Emanu- elsen will give readings. Later you have but to go with the flow as it moves on to the tent on Litter- aturtorget where we will round off the evening with Brødet & Eselet. Read more on p. 11 Banknatta During Banknatta it simmers and boils New American prose both inside and out at Kulturhuset Banken. Rebecca Dinerstein and Alexandra Kleeman are Ferdigsnakka LIVE takes the stage with Rebecca both under the age of 30, but with their respec- Dinerstein, , Liv Kølzov, Hanna Dahl tive novels they have reached countless readers. and Christelle Ravneberget in collaboration with It is not difficult to see that themes such as Bendik Hovik Kjeldsberg, Nils Martin Larsen and loneliness, dependency and distance describe Emilie The Duke. Dance into the early hours of central moods in the last adult generation who the morning to the music of the marvellous live experienced 11 September. band Broen, followed by dj Vogt and Kleiva. Read more on p. 16 Read more on p. 16 IS – the world’s most Pub hopping dangerous terrorist Saturday evening you can join two Norwegian network hinterland authors of the highest calibre, Levi Cecilie Hellestveit in conversation with the two Henriksen and Christer Mjåset, for pub hopping. IS experts Michael Weiss, American author The outing will go from Haakons Pub, via Paddys and journalist, and Petter Nesser, Norwegian and Nikkers for readings and exuberant stories, terrorism researcher. and finish with a concert by Levi Henriksen and Read more p. 10 The Babylon Badlands at Teltet on Stortorget square. Coeur de Leon in Read more on p. 17 Scandinavia Some books are formative for an entire gener- ation. They stand out as an expression of their time and as a reminder that the world is in movement, or perhaps not. Ariana Reines’ Couer de Leon, named after a cheap camembert brand, is precisely such a book. It is half feminist manifesto and half a blog of woes from the mid 2000s. It is not without reason that Lena Dunham enthusiastically cites the book. Here in Europe it has also become an important work. Meet Reines in conversation with a Norwegian and a Danish poet who have a strong relation- The Look of Silence ship to the poem. Read more on p. 14 Read more on p. 12

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Literature salon Highlights About America in with young prose 25 MAY | 6:00-6:50 PM | STORGATA 135 Norwegian: IN A PRIVATE HOME A literature salon featuring three young New American poetry in authors well worth becoming better acquainted Norwegian with: American Rebecca Dinerstein, Norwegian 25 MAY | 12:00-12:50 PM | CAFÉ STIFT Maria Navarro Skavanger and Heidi Sævereid. American poetry has in recent years really NOK 120 taken off and this is something that can also be noticed here in Norway. A changing Knut Ofstad on Bill Frank of the generational guard is underway. 26 MAY | 12:00-12:50 PM | SØNDRE PARK Meet artistic adviser and poet Mathias R. THE TRANSLATOR’S HOUR Samuelsen in conversation with three people It’s called “speaking from the heart”. Frank who have picked up the baton: Anna Kleiva, Bill is an author who writes in the same way: Gunnar Wærness and Leif Høghaug. These without refinement, grammatically dubious, individuals are responsible for translations but on the other hand, almost carnal: violent of three American poets to be featured at the and inelegant – wholly in keeping with the festival, Ariana Reines, CAConrad and Julian people and events he describes. His Norwegian T. Brolaski. NOK 120 translator Knut Ofstad will speak about Frank Bill’s books from the heart and possibly John Williams mini seminar other organs. Organised by: The Norwegian 25 MAY | 6:00-7:00 PM | TELTET Association of Literary Translators | Free of John Williams wrote only three novels, but Charge each of these, despite their historical bent, exemplified the decade in which they were Bukowski written: Stoner from the 1950s, Butchers 27 MAY | 8:00-8:40 PM | CAFÉ STIFT | Crossing from the 1960s and Augustus BANKNATTA from the 1970s. This small but dramatically The American poet and novelist Charles Bukowski strong body of work has been published in has been an inspiration for countless authors Norwegian translation in recent years. A and musicians. His raw and sincere narrative translator, a bookseller and an author have style and not least the person Bukowski himself, each read their respective John Williams novel created a universe that fascinated readers and each of them will present a book report. all over the world. Actor Torstein Andersen has These three people have not been chosen combined a number of Norwegian translations, solely because of their roles in Norwegian done by Geir Nergaard, in the monologue literature, but also because they possess Været er varmt på baksiden av klokka mi. (“The expertise as readers that can shed light upon Weather is Warm on the Back of My Watch”) the books in a wholly unique manner! And This performance, filled with misery, humour not least, a Norwegian edition of Augustus and bittersweet descriptions of reality will be a will be launched, the Pulitzer prize winning segment in this year’s edition of Banknatta! NOK novel that is the final work of Williams’ literary 350 for the entire evening production. Mathias R. Samuelsen will guide Thea Selliaas Thorsen, Terje Thorsen and Hans The Sunlit Night Petter Blad through the conversation. NOK 120 28 MAY | 12:00-12:50 PM SØNDRE PARK | THE TRANSLATOR’S HOUR Rebecca Dinerstein’s one-year stay in Northern Norway brought about her first poetry collection Lofoten in 2012. Now she has also written a novel about art, love and cultural

5 Høydepunkter collisions, inspired by the people and nature Highlights The Norwegian in the north. With a good-natured humour literary canon through and a New Yorker’s amazed take on everything American eyes from the midnight sun and wildflowers to 28 MAY | 4:00-5:00 PM | START AT Norwegian turns of phrase and traditions, LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK she makes this part of Norway new for us. She The American author Rebecca Dinerstein shares her joy over the subtleties of language has previously lived for a couple of years in with her translator, Ingrid Haug, and here Norway, has learned the Norwegian language they talk about how The Sunlit Night became and is fond of . Before the Sol hele natta. Organised by: The Norwegian start of the Norwegian Festival of Literature, Association of Literary Translators | Free of she will stay in Lillehammer and work in Charge Sigrid Undset’s writer’s study at Bjerkebæk, to absorb the literary atmosphere that The American connection permeates the city. Through a guided tour, 28 MAY | 12:00-12:50 PM | KUNSTMUSEET which leads us from one quotation stone to CAFÉ the next in the city streets, the American will In 2015 two thick novels were published, both of give us her perspective on a selection of works which have art and a relocation from Norway from the Norwegian canon. Free of Charge to the USA as a backdrop: ’s Max, Mischa og Tetoffensiven, (“Ma, Mischa and Rebecca Dinerstein Leading the Charge”) and Magnet by Lars Saaby Christensen. Why is the nation on the other side of the Atlantic so important? Why does it constantly appear in Norwegian literature? Two of Norway’s most important and most beloved authors in conversation with John Erik Riley, who is an author himself and a connoisseur of American literature. NOK 120

The American presidential election 28 MAY | 3:00-3:50 PM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK Milk and brown cheese Many in this corner of the world are really 29 MAY | 2:00-2:50 PM | CAFÉ STIFT curious about what is wrong with the Rebecca Dinerstein and Tore Stavlund are two American conservatives, and during the new but extremely different authors. But when pre-election period, one can really wonder it comes to dairy products, they both have about the current state of affairs in the an opinion to share. Dinerstein has written United States. Commentator and journalist an ode to Norwegian brown cheese that was Frank Rossavik has written the book Blant published in The New Yorker, and this past republikanerne (“Among the Republicans”), winter Stavlund’s book MELK, en romoddysé which tries to explain to Norwegian Social (“MILK, a space odyssey”) was published. Both Democrats how it is possible that half of the are thus well equipped, each from their own American population votes for gun-crazy perspective, to explain what our breakfast Christian fundamentalists. And who is better table says about us and how Norwegian dairy suited to discuss this with Rossavik than products are experienced by outsiders. Kristin the USA expert, marathon runner and crime Fridtun leads the conversation about milk novelist Hans Olav Lahlum. NOK 120 and brown cheese’s cultural significance in Norway and in the USA. NOK 120

6 Høydepunkter she spoke in support of the cause of Norway Spring Tour Highlights throughout the five years of the war.Guided of Bjerkebæk tour every day – once an hour – from 10:30 am og Aulestad to 3:30 pm (except for 1:30 pm)

Two Nobel laureates in literature have close ties to the Lillehammer region. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson created a European urban home at the Aulestad farm in Gausdal and Sigrid Undset built her own beautiful Bjerkebæk just on the outskirts of the city of Lillehammer. A number of festival events are scheduled to take place at Bjerkebæk and Aulestad. Be sure to make time for the guided tours! Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson’s home – Aulestad

Bjørnson and Ibsen hand in hand They were in the same class at school, they both became authors and Norway’s biggest celebrities. They married two childhood friends. On top of all of this, Ibsen’s son Sigrid Undset’s married Bjørnson’s daughter. The wedding home – Bjerkebæk was held in Bjørnson’s study at Aulestad! Guided tour of Aulestad every day at 1:30 pm Poetic garden stroll during the festival. Sigrid Undset lived side by side with flowers and nature her whole life. She created her own In Bjørnstjerne’s home large and lush rock garden at Bjerkebæk. In “But peace is not so precious, as that his will novels, articles and letters, she paints flowers man shows.” Bjørnson lived by his own words. and nature in words enabling us to visualise He spoke out for the cause of freedom and both. Garden stroll at Bjerkebæk every day at justice – at home in Norway and in Europe. 1:30 pm during the festival. The word and the pen were his weapons. He was a nation builder and a Nobel laureate. In the world of books Aulestad inspired him and under Karoline’s Sigrid Undset created her home Bjerkebæk in firm management it became a hospitable two log houses in Lillehammer. Here she wrote urban European home. Here we move more the great novels about Kristin Lavransdatter than a hundred years back in time, but the and Olav Audunssøn for which she received Bjørnsonian activism is always current. the Nobel Prize. She was a single mother of Every day – once an hour – from 10:30 am to three, and she often had to do her writing 3:30 pm (except for 1:30 pm) during the night. Before the war she spoke out against the Germans and was therefore forced to flee the country. She went to America where

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Nama Jafari Nama Opening performance Opening performance 7:00-8:30 PM | MAIHAUGSALEN Come along on a journey into the classroom and out into the unknown. From Pakistan, Romania, Afghanistan, Syria or Iran, and perhaps to Norway? Through words, images, artistic await, experiences music, and dance along with a glimpse into the life and dreams of people who for various reasons have left everything behind to establisha life in exile. Laila Bokhari tells of her Bokhari, father, Yawar who left Punjab and was the firstPakistani resident of Lillehammer. He travelled a long distance and met with a lot of adversity before his business dream, which eventually also financed a school Pakistan,in came true. At this school, girls learn to take the floor and we learn about what education means to Sania Bibi, who is years 17 old and a college student at LAMS. Meet also Zaki Amini, a young refugee from Afghanistan, whotells a thought provoking story from his own life. Stian Carstensen and bass player Finn Guttormsen are accompanied by Giani Lincan on the cimbalom, outstanding an musician who was a refugee from Ceaușescus, Romania. Together they also challenge young dancers of Dance Project to a battle. Lillehammer’s City of Refuge Author, Iranian Nama Jafari, reads his own poetry, and Aasne Linnestå and Maja Ratkje with Guro Skumsnes Moe, Håvard musical- a create Andersen Kristin and Skaset poetic expression on the theme of “refuge”. Awarding the Dobloug of Prize. 300 NOK

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Bob Dylan Bob Dylan 75! | VORSPIEL 5:00-6:00 PM | TELTET Gisle Selnes has written Norway’s first an from Dylan of exploration in-depth true academic perspective. combine We this with Bob’s 75th birthday! Meet Elistabeth Eide, professor at the Institute of Journalism and Media Studies, in a conversation with Selnes led by Fredrik Wanderup. And afterwards there will be a Dylan DJ. In other words, the perfect start for the festival. Come and celebrate birthday Dylan’s with us. NOK 120

ZINK PM | GALLERI 5:00-6:00 Welcome to an exhibition opening featuring Esther Maria Bjørneboe. In the painting exhibition “Re-novasjoner” she has worked on the basis of something she recognises as a cause, or origin for the pictures. It is a matter of memories of events, spaces and works that over time have had a direct impact on and significance for her choice of direction as an artist and her interest in the abstract image. The exhibition will be opened by Anna Lydia Svalastog with a musical segment by the artist Eselet. & Brødet duo Free of charge | The exhibition will hang Juneuntil 12 Tuesday 24 May 24 Tuesday opening: Exhibition Bjørneboe Maria Ester

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Will the son of Messi also become Messi also become Will the son of

will be in English studentat LAMS, SajidaNawab who is a teacher at the school, and headmaster Fouzia Tabassum. DagHareide will lead the conversation. Book sales and signing | NOK 120 The event will be in English Organised by: NFF – The Norwegian Translators and Writers Non-fiction Organisation | NOK 120 event The a good football player? Where did the first did the first player? Where a good football What is from? on earth come living creatures mentioned in crime DNA and why is it so often can bumps? How goose get series? Why do we backside? one manage without a seller by the best European In the prize-winning and Floor Rieder we Schutten Dutch Jan Paul to that has led up everything to find an answer About the in today. live we the world creating About Darwin the universe. the earth and age of selection and the About sexual and birds. the humanabout how and the fittest of survival billion four Here a mackerel. like body is still on 160 pages. presented are years is led by Hilde Østby. The conversation The Cloud Crew strikes strikes The Cloud Crew again! | THE 12:00-2:50 PM | SØNDRE PARK HOUR TRANSLATOR’S Mitchell in The British author David translator with his Norwegian conversation with Mitchell’s Omland about the work Stian The 2004. from Cloud Atlas monumental Mitchell and Omland, between collaboration project team a large into evolved with time, many the book from of in which translators with the author together worked countries to the many find solutions and one another to with its six represented challenges the novel explained The mystery BANKEN, 12:00-12:45 PM | KULTURHUSET SEMINAR HOLBØSALEN | NON-FICTION of book The Mystery the children’s was How created? Life

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Bibi SaniaBibi − 11:00-11:50 AM | KUNSTMUSEET CAFÉ CAFÉ KUNSTMUSEET | AM 11:00-11:50 Legacy”), year 17 old Sania Bibi who is a The heading could have been taken from a fairy tale. The story is indeed magical but is also a part of our reality and our times. It is the story of Lillehammer’s firstPakistani resident, many years of futile struggle, an idea that joins Norwegian and Pakistani handicraft traditions, a business dream that came true and culminated Bokhari’s in Yawar establishing the school LAMS in Pakistan. Meet author and terrorism researcher Laila Bokhari, who currently is making headlines with the book Arven etter far The rag mat that created mat that created The rag a school The event will be in English Dutch Jan Paul Schutten and Floor Rieder come to Lillehammer with explanations for everything that led up to creating theworld we live in today. About the age of the earth and the universe. About Darwin and birds. About what DNA is, and how the human body is still like mackerel. a A programme event for all those who find incrediblejoy in life’s diversity! 13 25 May May 25 Life of The Mystery AM | TYRILI | 10:00-10:45 Wednesday Wednesday

Tickets Ticket sales online, at the festival office and festival bookstore close one hour before an event, and open one half-hour before the event at the door. Reed more p. 20 Sofi , he is followed by followed , he is Conrad of film The Book In the South in the town his home to team back a film his formertruly happened to what investigate to burned found body was latter’s Earth. The lover with his hands handcuffed beyond recognition, nonetheless but the police behind his back, This is a true case as a suicide. dismissed the USA, crime in the hate about crime documentary the truth. search for and an author’s In collaboration with Lillehammer Filmklubb with Lillehammer |In collaboration English will be in NOK 120 | The event The vulnerable human being 5:00-5:50 PM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK MEETING NORDIC AUTHORS Sofi Oksanen and Beate Grimsrud meet for conversation a about the vulnerable human being in the city, and in the world in general. In their literary works they have both described human beings in critical situations. These Scandinavian star authors meet now for the first time and compare their novels. The conversation moderator will be Mette Karlsvik. Book sales and signing | NOK 120 The event will be in English

Yu Hua reached Yu many Yu Hua 3:00-5:00 PM | LILLEHAMMER KINO | FILM willLauritzen Ellen-Sofie journalist Morgenbladet Conrad of The Book discuss the documentary is CAConrad CAConrad. with the American poet and poets important most North America’s one of USA”. “a different for voice a pronounced The truth behind the poetry readers in Norway. This year he is making The Seventh novel the Day, with and headlines it is our pleasure to be hosts for this brilliant Chinese author. The French newspaper Libération wrote about Brothers that it “takes us from laughter to tears, from jokes globalisation,” to barbarity from tragedy, to in short, a book encompassing just about everything. Would you like to come along on a half-century’s journey through China? Here you will receive an impertinent and amusing perspective on the enormous country that can only be fully described through its fantastic literary tradition. Hua in conversation Yu Harald interpreter and translator his with Bøckman. Book sales and signing | NOK 120 The conversation will be interpreted from Chinese into Norwegian With the book Brothers, Yu Huas Kina Yu 2:00-2:50 PM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK MEETING AUTHORS INTERNATIONAL interlinked narrators, from 1850 to a remote, a remote, to 1850 from narrators, interlinked the the book, Meet future. post-apocalyptic and The Cloud Crew! translator the author, of Association The Norwegian Organiser: charge of | Free Translators Literary English will be in The event

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CAConrad will conclude the entire event. Hostess for the evening: Ellen-Sofie Lauritzen. | TheNOK event 120 will be in English Late night literature night Late PM | TELTET 8:00-8:50 Since America will be our guest at the festival, we thought it would be appropriate to present a medley of Norwegian and American literature. will We feature highlights from the best the in these present and programme Wærness Gunnar style! Norwegian-American will repeat last year’s success, Maja Lunde will read from The History of Bees published last year that quickly became an international bestseller, Alexandra Kleeman gives us an excerpt from the Too novel You Can HaveA Body Like Mine Brødet & Eselet Brødet 10:00 PM-1:00 AM | TELTET The cabaret duo Gunnar Wærness and Henrik Skotte open a show with a bang that will leave you happy and confused. It is not easy to define what Brødet & Eselet actually are, but at the very least certain it’s that the concerts are always sharp, amusing and thought- provoking. After theconcert Teltet will be open until AM | NOK01:00 120

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, one of the major works written The Nansen Academy In collaboration with with collaboration In The Nansen Academy | NOK 120 6:00-11:00 PM | THE NANSEN ACADEMY 6:00-11:00 PM | THE NANSEN ACADEMY This year as well the Nansen Academy extends an invitation to a garden party in There surroundings. lovely academy’s the will be refreshments, mingling and readings! Readings with a Nordic profile by Beate Grimsrud, Ramqvist Karolina and Birger Emanuelsen. The band Svarte svingende will music. the provide A garden partyA garden for everyone! for everyone! is the most comprehensive review of Islamic terrorism in Europe. Meet them in conversation with Cecilie Hellestveit from the International Law and Policy Institute. Book sales and signing | NOK 120 The event will be in English The American journalist Michael Weiss, in collaboration with Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan, haswritten ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror about Terrorism IS so far. researcher Petter Nesser from Norway is making headlines with Islamic Terrorism in Europe: A history 6:00-6:50 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, BANKEN, PM | KULTURHUSET 6:00-6:50 FESTSALEN IS - the world’s most the world’s IS - network terrorist dangerous Thursday 26 May ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror

The forgotten war crime 11:00 AM-1:15 PM | LILLEHAMMER KINO | FILM The Look of Silence is the sequel to the prize-winning film The Act of Killing, in which Joshua Oppenheimer travels to Indonesia to investigate the virtually forgotten genocide The USA’s role in IS of the 1960s. Because charges were never 12:00-12:50 PM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK brought against the executioners, they willingly Michael Weiss, who in collaboration with the agree to do interviews and recreate the horrors Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan, has written for which they were partially responsible. The ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, one of the major documentary has attracted attention all over works written about IS so far, explains the role the world, not just because of its shocking played by the USA in the battle against the

Thursday 26 May Thursday contents, but also because of the unique film terrorist group. What will change after the editing, done by Danish Niels Pagh Andersen. election in 2016, and how did it all begin? In The Look of Silence the focus is instead on Can the USA’s three previous wars in the the victims of the tragedy, those who were Middle East be a factor behind the spared, got away or were left behind. The film emergence of the terrorist group? depicts their meeting with the executioners. A NOK 120 | The lecture will be in English conversation between Ivo de Figueiredo and Joshua Oppenheimer on Skype. The film will be The Bjørnson lecture: shown after the conversation. The Women’s War In collaboration with Lillehammer Film Club 12:00-1:30 PM | HIL and The Norwegian Film School | NOK 120 Finnish Sofi Oksanen has reaped international The conversation will be in English acclaim. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages since her literary debut The rag mat that with Stalinin lehmät (“Stalin’s Cows”) (2003). created a school In 2010 she received the Nordic Council’s 11:30 AM-12:15 PM | TYRILI literature prize for the novel . In 2013 she The heading could have been taken from a received the Swedish Academy’s Nordic Prize, fairy tale. The story is indeed magical but is and Helsingin Sanomat named Purge the best also a part of our reality and our times. It is the Finnish novel of the 2000s. This year’s novel, story of Lillehammer’s first Pakistani resident, Norma, is a dark family drama spotlighting many years of futile struggle, an idea that human trafficking and the exploitation of joins Norwegian and Pakistani handicraft women in the world today. Oksanen’s work as traditions, a business dream that came true an author is characterised by a strong social and culminated in Yawar Bokhari’s establishing commitment. She has addressed themes such as the school LAMS in Pakistan. Meet author and family relationships, eating disorders, anxiety, terrorism researcher Laila Bokhari, who is violence and occupation. Introduction by Birgit currently making headlines with the book Arven Bjerck. etter far (“My Father’s Legacy”), 17-year-old Bus from the Nansen Academy 11:30 AM via Sania Bibi who is a student at LAMS, Sajida Skysstasjonen to Lillehammer University College Nawab who is a teacher at the school, and (HiL). Return around 1:45 PM. Free of charge. headmaster Fouzia Tabassum. In collaboration with Lillehammer University 13–15 years of age | Free school College (HiL), The Nansen Academy and performance | The conversation will be in Lillehammer museum | Free of charge English The lecture will be in English

12 Keynote speaker: New American poetry David Mitchell 3:00-3:50 PM | CAFÉ STIFT 2:00−2:50 PM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK The three American poets on the programme Of Mitchell’s seven novels, two have been meet their Norwegian translators, and we short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. From are presented with readings in English and the time of his literary debut in 1999 with Norwegian. Essentially the best from the USA Ghostwritten, he has consistently published and the best from Norway: Ariana Reines critically-acclaimed novels and contributed and Anna Kleiva, CAConrad and Gunnar short stories to the world’s leading literary Wærness, Julian T. Brolaski and Leif Høghaug. journals. For Norwegian readers he is perhaps Booksales and signing | NOK 120 best known for the book Cloud Atlas which Parts of the event will be in English was made into a film starring Tom Hanks in the leading role. The book caused a sensation among critics and in academia; the American literature critic legend Fredric Jameson described the novel as a new sci-fi version of the historical novel and that it was “defined by 26 May Thursday its relation to future fully as much as to past”. Not a bad reference! Mitchell is currently making headlines with the novel Slade House which immediately moved onto the Top 10 list of the world-famous industry publication Rebecca Dinerstein Publishers Weekly. He is moreover the year’s

Future Library art project author. Don’t miss Richard Ford out on David Mitchell’s lecture about ghosts! NOK 120 | The lecture will be in English

Dark Eastern Destinies 3:00−4:15 PM | THE NANSEN ACADEMY THE BJØRNSON DISCUSSION Sofi Oksanen will be featured here in a discussion with Eastern Europe expert Aage Linn Ullmann Borchgrevink about Oksanen’s focus on women’s identity and their lives in the former Soviet states. How does one live branded as Literary gala a whore? How does one live with oneself? 7:00-9:00 PM | MAIHAUGSALEN Oksanen’s female characters fight for self- The year’s gala will give you both something understanding and self-respect when they new and something you knew you liked. are confronted with the idolisation of beauty, With Rebecca Dinerstein as compère, we eating disorders, harassment and trafficking. invite the public to a formal session with Linn How does one avoid passing on pain to Ullmann and Richard Ford, in conversation subsequent generations? The audience will be with magazine editor John Freeman. They invited to ask questions. both have a lengthy and well-recognised In collaboration with Lillehammer University literary production to their names, and one of College (HiL), The Nansen Academy and the things they have in common is that they Lillehammer museum | NOK 120 | The have written about mothers, Ullmann in the discussion will be in English autumn’s book De urolige (“The Register of Disquiet”) and Ford in the essay “My mother, in memoriam”. The literary challenges such a theme brings to the writer’s desk is one of

13 the topics they will talk about. But before Coeur de Lion in Scandinavia we get that far you will meet the crème de la 12:00-12:50 PM | LILLEHAMMER crème of American poetry, friend of Norway, KUNSTMUSEUM Ariana Reines and the poet referred to as his In 2007 the long-poem Coeur de Lion was generation’s Allen Ginsberg, CAConrad! It is published in the USA, and since then this book all framed in, as is geographically fitting, by has become a generation-defining publication Julian T. Brolaski’s old time country music. that unequivocally put Ariana Reines on the Book sales and signing | NOK 300 map as a poet. The book was translated into The event will be in English Norwegian and Danish last year, and in that context we want to find out what influence it has had in the Scandinavian countries. Translator Anna Kleiva and Ariana Reines in conversation with Danish Caspar Erik. NOK 120 | The event will be in English

Julian T. Brolaski

Julian and Rio 11:00 PM-1:00 AM | TELTET Julian T. Brolaski is not just one of the most gifted poets in the USA these days, he is also David Mitchell among those spearheading the new queer country music movement. Together with the Friday 27 May Friday backing band Rio Bravo from Gjøvik, he will Mitchell Meets Lunde serve up old time country in the tradition 1:00-1:50 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, of Hank Williams. The rumours on the FESTSALEN Lillehammer prairie claim that the audience The successful author David Mitchell is will both dance and weep! NOK 120 predominantly known for the novel Cloud Atlas, which was also made into a film. When Maja Lunde wrote the critical and sales success Bienes historie (“The History of Bees”), Friday 27 May she found great inspiration in precisely this novel. Magazine editor John Freeman will lead Freeman’s own the way when Mitchell and Lunde meet for a 11:00-11:50 AM | CAFÉ STIFT conversation about the writing process and John Freeman, former editor of Granta, started influences. Book sales and signing his own magazine last year: Freeman’s Own. In NOK 120 | The event will be in English this journal he has combined submissions from some of the world’s leading authors. This is a A poetry tour of images project worth following and at Café Stift you in slow motion will experience a presentation that will make 1:00-1:20 PM | LILLEHAMMER KUNSTMUSEUM you want to take part in the journey. Poetry and photography. Experience the NOK 120 | The event will be in English exhibition SaKte bilder (“Images in slow motion”) with a selection of the festival poets. Actress Eline Holbø Wendelboe performs texts by these poets, chosen by Mathias R. Samuelsen and Janeke Meyer Utne. In collaboration with Lillehammer Kunstmuseum | NOK 50

14 Richard Ford than 20 different countries and are more than about life with Frank merely political refugees. They represent 2:00-2:50 PM | LILLEHAMMER KUNSTMUSEUM the countless independent, critical and Frank Bascombe would most prefer to live a creative voices fighting for democracy and peaceful and retiring life in the suburbs. Over a humane society, and who for that reason the years he has popped up in book after book are persecuted, imprisoned and killed. This by the American author Richard Ford. In Ford’s afternoon at Teltet, the audience will hear an most recent novel, Let me be Frank with you, abundance of persecuted voices. which will be released in Norwegian this spring, In collaboration with Norwegian PEN | Free he is sought out by old friends, an ex-wife and of Charge | The event will be in Norwegian complete strangers – and perhaps he needs and the native languages of the writers these people just as much as they need him? Ellen-Sofie Lauritzen talks with Richard Ford Capitalism under scrutiny about Frank and in particular his last book 4:00-4:50 PM | LILLEHAMMER which is set in a hurricane-ravaged USA. KUNSTMUSEUM Book sales and signing | NOK 120 Professor of Economics Anwar Shaikh has The event will be in English taught political economics at The New School in New York for more than 40 years and is currently From Indiana to making headlines with his latest and important Lillehammer work Capitalism. Competition, Conflict, Crisis. 3:00-3:50 PM | GALLERI ZINK The book takes to task the way the discipline of Terje Thorsen meets Frank Bill for a economics is taught in universities around the conversation about hard core prose. The world, and offers a wholly innovative model that universe of Bill’s short stories are far afield from Shaikh hopes will provide the foundation for a the universe frequented by most Norwegians, more realistic teaching approach in this field. but from cartoons, films and television series The objective, in a time of crises and increasing 27 May Friday Norwegians do have a relation to the America inequality, is to provide a better understanding he depicts. What is frightening is that where of how capitalism actually works. Shaikh will be the author comes from, this is reality. It is no interviewed by Ola Innset, a research fellow in exaggeration to state that Frank Bill’s books are history and an author. a real punch in the stomach. In collaboration with Manifest magazine Book sales and signing | NOK 120 NOK 120 | The event will be in English The event will be in English Digital nostalgia An abundance of 4:00-4:50 PM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK persecuted voices Many Norwegian readers learned of the French 3:00-4:30 PM | TELTET literature professor Antoine Compagnon Presentation of City of Asylum through the book A Summer with Montaigne. Writers in Norway Now he is back with a book about what it In Norway there are more than 50 authors, would have been like had Baudelaire, Proust writers and artists who are so-called City of and Montaigne had a social media presence. Asylum writers. All of these individuals have The book is composed, in the same way as A experienced persecution, censorship, gag Summer with Montaigne and A Summer with orders, and other threats as a result of their Proust, of 40 short pieces which reflect upon form of expression. For this reason they have the digital reality, sewing it all together with been invited to and granted asylum in one of classical French literature. The lecture is based the 14 Norwegian Cities of Asylum for writers on the recent Norwegian edition of Petits under persecution and in this manner have spleens numeriques (“Digital melancholy”). reclaimed their freedom of expression. City Book sales and signing | NOK 120 of Refuge writers in Norway come from more The event will be in English

15 Hot off the press Ferdigsnakka LIVE American prose 9:00-10:00 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, 5:00-5:50 PM | TELTET FESTSALEN Ellen Sofie Lauritzen will speak with Rebecca Again this year we will take it away with Dinerstein and Alexandra Kleeman about Ferdigsnakka LIVE! The concept mixes their latest novels. The two rising literary stars new Norwegian literature and music, in a from New York have each in their own way revision of the audio book that has had a described addiction and love within different profound impact on the way we think about traditions of the novel. Kleeman writes in the the performance of literature. The literature tradition of Margaret Atwood and Dinerstein will be performed by Hanna Dahl, Christelle in the tradition of Paul Auster, but the themes Ravneberget, Liv Køltzow, Rebecca Dinerstein converge on a number of points. and Vigdis Hjorth. The soundscape is supplied Book sales and signing | NOK 120 by Bendik Hovik Kjeldsberg, Nils Martin Larsen The event will be in English and Emile The Duke. Banknatta Broen 7:00 PM-3:00 AM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN During Banknatta it will simmer and boil both inside and out at Kulturhuset Banken. Join in cheering on the best poetry slammers from Norway, Sweden and Denmark who will give their all in Holbøsalen. In Festsalen you can experience an extraordinary concert when Ferdigsnakka LIVE takes the stage featuring Hanna Dahl, Christelle Ravneberget, Liv Køltzow, Rebecca Dinerstein and Vigdis Hjorth in inter- action with Bendik Hovik Kjeldsberg, Nils Martin Larsen and Emile The Duke. Hear Liv Gulbrand- sen tell the story of Knausgård’s My Struggle, Broen volume by volume, and experience Torstein 11:00 PM-00:30 AM| KULTURHUSET BANKEN, Andersen’s Bukowski monologue, before finally FESTSALEN jumping into a wonderful closing with Broen. Broen has gained a large and enthusiastic following through its exuberant mixture of

Friday 27 May Friday Min kamp 1-3 19:00 Cafè Stift Britpop, hip-hop, acid punk, Paul Simon, the (My Struggle 1−3) spoken word and West African rhythms. When Poetry Slam 20:00 Holbøsalen Heida Karine Jóhannesdottir Mobeck (tuba), Bukowski 20:00 Cafè Stift Hans Hulbækmo (drums), Marianna S.A. Røe Ferdigsnakka LIVE 21:00 Festsalen (vocalist), Lars Ove Fossheim (guitar) and Anja Min kamp 4-6 22:00 Cafè Stift Lauvdal (synth) enter the stage, the audience (My Struggle 4−6) finds their way to the dance floor. Broen 23:00 Festsalen DJ Vogt og Kleiva 00:30 Festsalen DJ Vogt og Kleiva 00:30-2:30 AM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, NOK 350 for the entire evening FESTSALEN The bank director of the night: CAConrad. Anna Kleiva returns to Gudbranddalen to DJ for us. She has brought along her author friend Stina Vogt, and together they make up DJ-Vogt og Kleiva.

16 Saturday 28 May

Paper marbling workshop 9:00-12:00 AM AND 12:30 PM-3:30 AM LILLEHAMMER KUNSTMUSEUM Take part in a paper marbling workshop and receive an introduction to the handicraft related to classical book design! It takes many years to learn paper marbling, but through this practical workshop you will receive a quick introduction with a focus on experi- Hassan Blasim mentation and learning-by-doing. When the workshop is over, you will leave with all the basic knowledge and inspiration you need to should interest many Norwegian readers. In begin on your own. The workshop will be led conversation with Ane Nydal. by Apen Apen, a project group established by Book sales and signing | NOK 120 Thomas Kjellberg, Mats Omland and Steinar The event will be in English Borø. Be sure to wear clothing that won’t mind a Pub hopping bit of paint splatter | NOK 600 09:00 PM-01:00 AM | HAAKONS, PADDYS, NIKKERS, TELTET A spring day with Join author buddies Levi Hendriksen and Compagnon Christer Mjåset for an evening of pub 1:00-1:50 PM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK hopping. The evening will be concluded with | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS MEETING a concert by Levi Henriksen’s band, in our Fredrik Wandrup pays literary homage to the elegant Spiegeltent. Levi Henriksen & Babylon best-selling French author and professor of Badlands take listeners along on a furious literature Antoine Compagnon. Fortunately journey with the rock music that changed their they will both speak in English for the lives when they were young men, and which occasion! Compagnon, whose book A Summer now, considerably further north in life, has with Montaigne became a surprise best seller, proven to be a life-long love. That is precisely explains the background of the project and the leitmotif of “The Best Band in Heaven”. The Saturday 28 May 28 Saturday perhaps he has theories of his own about why songs are about the powerful feelings that the book became so popular! are mobilised the first time one really listens NOK 120 | The event will be in English to music and feels that the world will never be the same again, the almost Old Testament-like Surrealism after Saddam recognition of how important rock is for the 2:00-2:50 PM| CAFÉ STIFT feeling of identity. But wait, there’s more! With INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS MEETING lyrics like «Jeg lærte å bøye både hode og Ten years ago author and filmmaker Hassan knær/Mamma fødte meg i en bakevjyeby. Alt Blasim left post-Saddam Hussein’s Iraq as jeg ikke ble det ble jeg her/Mamma fødte meg a refugee to seek asylum in Finland. From i en bakevjeby» (“I learned to bow my head there he has written books that have been and knees/ Mama birthed me in a backwater successful in a number of languages, and town. Everything I never was, I became it here/ this spring the novel The Corpse Exhibition Mama birthed me in a backwater town”), the is available in Norwegian. Blasim’s mixture band penetrates the heart of another of rock’s of humour and darkness, absurdity and important core themes: this business of not gravity puts him in the tradition of Kafka and fitting in and simultaneously yearning to get Daniil Kharms. In other words, a legacy that away.

17 Sunday lunch Sunday 29 May 1:00-1:50 PM | SØNDRE PARK LUNCH IN THE PARK Hungry? For literature, for spring, for food? If you come to the park at lunchtime, you will have the chance to enjoy the festival’s final readings in the park by Frank Bill, Tomas Espedal, Hassan Blasim and Tore Stavlund. Introductions by Ane Nydal. Free of charge | Parts of the event will be in English A hundred and one poems 7:00-8:00 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, Alexander Rybak FESTSALEN | CONCERT The festival winds down as Lars Saabye Christensen reads a selection of own poems accompanied by Mathias Eick on the trumpet and Eyolf Dale on the grand piano. The concert is based on Hundre og ett dikt (“A Hundred and One Poems”), in which the poet Jan Jakob Tønseth has made a selection from a series of Lars Saabye Christensen’s poetry collections. Eick and Dale’s melodious music creates a framework for Christensen’s texts Who’s that trip-trapping which will impress and bring joy to old and over my bridge? new readers and listeners. 12:00 noon-3:00 PM | MAIHAUGEN NOK 300 A Day of Trolls at Maihaugen Bring along the entire family for a day full of theatre, dance and workshops! Alexander Rybak and Dennis Storøy will assemble the hordes at Dansarvollen with their production about Trolle og den magiske fela (“Trolle and the Magic Fiddle”). Before this, Gry Moursund, the illustrator responsible for the popular Bukkene Bruse på badeland (“The Billy Goats Gruff at Swimland”) and Bukkene Bruse vender tilbake (“The Return of the Billy Goats Gruff”), will teach you how to draw trolls, Lisa Aisato will talk about Tambar, while Ove Røsbak will speak about his book Trollstenen (“The Troll Stone”). There will be dance and theatre by

Sunday 29 May Sunday Gausdal Kulturskole and Fron Kulturskole, and the trolls Trollgeir and Onkel Nut will put in an appearance, played by Helena Klarén and Henrik Slåen. Organised in collaboration with Maihaugen and Teater Leven.

For the whole family | Standard ticket to Mathias Eick Maihaugen | Free of charge with Festival Pass

18 Slow Motion

Lisa Aisato

Exhibitions: for her choice of direction as an artist and her interest in the abstract image Birds and fishes and Free of charge | Organiser: Galleri Zink everything in between The exhibition will hang until 12 June GALLERI ZINK Paper marbling, or the art Lisa Aisato is one of Norway’s foremost of painting on water illustrators and in 2015 was named one of CAFÉ STIFT Norway’s ten best authors under the age Marbled paper is best known from book covers of 35. She is also the children’s literature and the end paper of old books, but it has also project “Boklek” author for this year and has been used to decorate the inside of cans, for been travelling this spring through Oppland packaging medicine, as pictures on the wall county meeting preschool children. During the and as wallpaper. Suminagashi or “floating festival, Aisato will exhibit illustrations from ink” is the marbling of paper with water and several of her books, including En fisk til Luna ink to transform it into something colourful (“A Fish for Luna”), Odd er et egg (“Odd is an and organic. The technique arose in Japan as Egg”) and Fugl (“Bird”). far back as in the 13th century. Marbled paper Free of charge | In collaboration with has a history from East Asia, Central Asia and Galleri Zink | The exhibition will hang until the Islamic world, Europe and the USA. The 12 June paper marbling works have been created by Apen Apen, a project group formed by Thomas Ester Maria Bjørneboe Kjellberg, Mats Omland and Steinar Borø. GALLERI ZINK Free og charge Exhibitions In the painting exhibition “Re-novasjoner” Ester Maria Bjørneboe has worked on the basis Hallvard Blekastad – of something she recognises as a cause, or Norway of Old in Paris origin for the pictures. These are memories of AULESTAD events, spaces and works which over the years Gausdølen Hallvard Blekastad (1883–1966) have had a direct impact on and significance was a storyteller, gatherer of words and visual

19 artist who continued to educate himself Seminar: throughout his entire life – in Gausdal, in Norway and in Europe. He remained loyal to International Publisher his Norwegian roots, but was also inspired by seminar European art, such as the work of Cézanne and 24 - 27 MAY | SCANDIC VICTORIA HOTEL Matisse. During the Norwegian Festival of Literature Free of charge | Organiser: Aulestad in Lillehammer, the Norwegian Publishers Association and NORLA invite foreign publishers to attend a seminar about Norwegian literature and publishing. Publishers from Italy, Spain, France, Great Britain, USA and Canada will participate. Organisers: The Norwegian Publishers Association and NORLA | Financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs | For invited guests only

Practical Info Images in slow motion – Contemporary FESTIVAL OFFICE photography The festival and press office is located at LILLEHAMMER KUNSTMUSEUM First Hotel Breiseth, right by the train station, The exhibition gives a perspective on entrance from Jernbanegata. Open 23 May Norwegian art photography at a time when 3:00-6:00 PM, 24 - 28 May 9:00 AM−8:00 PM, the digital image’s ephemerality dominates. 29 MAY 12:00 noon -3:00 PM. The artists participating in the exhibition TEL: 61 24 77 24 / 970 11 516 renew in different ways the idea of what is specific to photography. Through different TICKETS means they create delays in the experience Tickets can be purchased in a number of of the images so a silence and space for ways: reflection arises. The exhibition includes 1. Ticket sales close one hour before an event, the presentation of a photography book in and open one half-hour before the event at the collaboration with Forbundet Frie Fotografer door. (Norway’s National Organisation of 2. Click on «Program 2016» on our website Photographers) and Fotogalleriet. www.litteraturfestival.no/en and find the Curators: Christine Hansen and Janeke Meyer event you want to attend. Select “kjøp billett” Utne. (buy ticket). Free of charge | Organiser: LIillehammer 3. If you have a smart phone you can Kunstmuseum | The exhibition will hang upload the app eBillett and add Norsk until 11 September Litteraturfestival (Norwegian Festival of Literature) as a site.

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