ENGLISH PROGRAM WELCOME PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS Nordic authors, a dose of new Norwegian drama, WELCOME TO THE FESTIVAL! poetry and food on the menu, it is our pleasure PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS to welcome you to a festival that we hope will not Spring has sprung in the city and it is teeming only entertain, challenge, and inspire you but also OPENING with life. There are books and authors provide you with new knowledge! The opening performance will be a dramatic everywhere you look. It’s finally time for the homage to Sigrid Undset, on her birthday. Ellen Festival of Literature in Lillehammer! Through the literary encounters and lectures you Horn has been cast in the role of Undset. Other will have the chance to experience during this cast members are Norwegian authors Herbjørg Among the international highlights are the year’s festival, an arc is drawn extending all the Wassmo and Synne Lea, along with Croatian Belarusian Nobel Prize nominee Svetlana way from the smallest of stories told in personal author Slavenka Drakulić, and Marie Aljokhina from Aleksijevitsj, one of the leading figures of British voices, to the large social issues about war, peace, the Russian punk poetry group Pussy Riot. literature, Julian Barnes, and the young, Danish democracy and freedom of expression. Read more on page 7 poet Yahya Hassan. Read up ahead of time, so you will get even more out of the We can offer six festival days and more than 200 experience when you see the authors on stage. scheduled events. So if you are fond of literature and debate and are looking for a social meeting With a focus on freedom of expression and place with a focus on books, then Lillehammer is GALA EVENING authors’ struggles with the words, a geographic the place to be on 20–25 May. Feel free to create We will celebrate literature through a multi- plunge into the social conditions and literature of your own festival itinerary by selecting your genre gala evening: Novels, shorts stories and Russia and Eastern Europe, the powerful works of favourites! poetry of significance will fill the evening. We start off with an encounter with Julian Barnes, one of the leading figures of British litera- ture. This will be Barnes’ first appearance on stage at a event, here in meeting and conversation with . In addition there will be a reading by the Danish star poet Yahya Hassan and a meeting with ’s foremost short story author . Read more on page 14

POETRY AND DANCE How might a poem appear if it were expressed through contemporary dance? Dancer Marit Borkenhagen Lina Undrum Randi Høiholt-Vågsnes Annette Seglem Henriette Hamli interprets readings by Steinar Festival Director Mariussen Head of Pegasus and Production Opstad, Gunnar Wærness and Cecilie Løveid. Artistic Adviser project coordinator coordinator Read more on page 9

2 3 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS UKRAINE ON FIRE PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS What are the greatest challenges facing Ukraine today? Don’t miss the meeting with author Andrej Kurkov, who is SVETLANA ALEKSIJEVITSJ considered one of Ukraine’s foremost contemporary authors.

She has written about life following the nuclear accident in Kurkov’s literary breakthrough came with the satirical novel

Chernobyl, about Soviet women’s contribution during the Second Picknick on the Ice, a dark, absurd comedy from post-Sovi- World War and about the life of Soviet people in the aftermath of et Ukraine. He has in recent times lived in the midst of the communism. In the autumn of 2013 she was among those heading ongoing uprisings and violence in Kiev. Read more on page 15 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 TRANSGRESSIONS: THE YEAR’S BJØRNSON LECTURER: SLAVENKA DRAKULIC NORWEGIAN-POLISH SHORT STORY MEETING Slavenka Drakulić has written about life under Do Norwegian and Polish contemporary short fiction have communism, in wartime and violations against women in anything in common, and if so, what? We have invited two article form, novels and non-fiction. As a women’s rights Norwegian and two Polish short story authors to meet for activist she has had a particular focus on the impact readings and conversation: Mikkel Bugge, Laila Stien, Marek of the communist regime and subsequent wars on the Bienczyk and Inga Iwasiów. Read more on page 11 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 FINALE Loneliness and small town life in Norway are recurring region. Drakulić will also take part in the Opening themes in Bjella’s melancholy lyrics. For Vonde visu (Oh Yeah!) Performance and two author meetings. ("Songs of Pain (Oh Yeah!)") he was awarded the Norwegian Read more on pages 7, 10, 12, 13 music prizes Spellemannprisen, Prøysenprisen and Bendiksen- prisen. 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. PUSSY RIOT Read more on page 21 Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina BUY TICKETS IN ADVANCE! Samutsevich were charged with hooliganism and If you have a festival pass, this gives you admission to all events, space permitting sentenced to two years’ inprisonment after having and unless otherwise specified. By purchasing a supplementary ticket for NOK 10 you performed a protest song against Putin in the Cathedral can reserve a seat at the events that may be filled to capacity. Supplementary tickets and of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. They were later pardoned individual tickets can be purchased at eBillett or at the festival office up to 11 PM on the evening and released. Maria Alyokhina are coming to Lillehammer before the day the events take place. Tickets are sold at ordinary price at the door starting a and will speak about their work and several filmmakers, half-hour before the event. See the information on p. 23 and for each programme item. artists and activists. Read more on pages 6, 10 4 5 TUESDAY 20 MAY TUESDAY 20 MAY OPENING PERFORMANCE as a whole. The winners of the and TUESDAY 7:00 – 8:30 PM | MAIHAUGSALEN Eckbos Legat’s cultural prize will be announced Herbjørg Wassmo, Slavenka Drakulić, Synne during the opening of the Norwegian Festival of Lea, Ellen Horn and Pussy Riot are among the Literature. artists to be found on stage for the opening Portions of the production will be in English. performance, which this year will take place NOK 300 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 entertai- ning, and ask questions of relevance from both PUSSY RIOT VS. PUTIN a social and artist’s perspective. TUESDAY 2:00 PM | LILLEHAMMER KINO The performance will simultaneously pay What is in fact happening in Russia? homage to Sigrid Undset, on her birthday. We Does Putin want to tighten an iron grip as a enter her literary production at a point in time Russian dictator and come down hard on all where a great deal was at stake, when Undset rebellious and artistic activity? The reactions HÅKON GULLVÅG AND SLIMAN was forced to leave Bjerkebæk and Norway against the feminist punk group Pussy Riot is due to the German occupation in 1940. From just one of several examples of violations of MANSOUR-FESTIVALUTSTILLING 2014 TUESDAY 5:00 PM | GALLERI ZINK | EXHIBITION OPENING exile in America, Undset wrote with passionate freedom of expression and artistic freedom in engagement letters, articles and lectures on the Galleri ZINK welcomes you to the year’s festival the country. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria themes of oppression, resistance, exile, literatu- exhibition, featuring Håkon Gullvåg and Sliman Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich were re and the necessity of self-expression. Actress Mansour. charged with hooliganism and sentenced to two Ellen Horn will perform the role of Undset. years in prison after having performed a protest Works by Palestinian Sliman Mansour and song aginst Putin at the Cathedral of Christ the We have invited Norwegian authors Herbjørg Norwegian Håkon Gullvåg will be presented Saviour in Moscow. They were later pardoned Wassmo and Synne Lea, the Croatian author here, two of the respective countries’ foremost and released. Maria Alyokhina will be in Lille- Slavenka Drakuli , as well as Maria Aljokhina contemporary artists. Both have exhibited their ć hammer together with the filmmakers Taisiya from the Russian punk poetry group Pussy Riot work extensively, both nationally and interna- Krugovykh and Vasily Bogatov and the activists to take part using their own texts. and artists Lusine Dzhanyan and Aleksei tionally. Although their artistic expressions are different, we find a number of convergences, Nekrasov. They will talk about Russia, activism The performance is beautifully framed by not least through a shared interest in issues of and freedom of expression. Film clips from the the music of Ragnhild and Eldbjørg Hemsing. current social relevance. The exhibition will be documentary Pussy vs. Putin. Moderator: Aage Dancers from the Lillehammer & Gjøvik up from 20 May – 15 June 2014. Borchgrevink. Dansesenter will take part under the Organiser: Galleri ZINK | Free of charge NOK 100 | Book signing and sales direction of Silje Onstad Haalien. The event will be in English Jørgen Damskau is director of the production 6 77 WEDNESDAY 21 MAY WEDNESDAY 21 MAY SACRED LAND AND WILD RAGE. which is about the 13-year old Conor and his event. In his keynote lecture he will talk about ART TRANSCENDING BORDERS difficulties handling that his mother has cancer. his life as a reader and author, from his first WEDNESDAY 11:00 AM “There are books that tear down all defence meeting with books as a child, via his book LILLEHAMMER KUNSTMUSEUM, KAFEEN mechanisms. And then there you sit alone with collector’s mania, to the topic of his own writing the book and your own heart,” Tyra T. Tronstad process, and about the challenges of today Sliman Mansour is viewed as one of the wrote about the book on her blog. Meet related to the role of the printed book in the foremost painters in Palestine. In his works, the American author Patrick Ness in conversation digital age. Introduction by Ellen Svendsen. Israeli occupation is a consistent and recurring with Tyra T. Tronstad. NOK 100 | Book signing and sales | The lecture theme, and he is co-author of the book Both Age group: Young people | Free of charge will be in English Sides of Peace. Håkon Gullvåg has held a central The event will be in English 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 POETRY AND DANCE WEDNESDAY 2:00 PM | artworks employing motifs and impressions LILLEHAMMER KUNSTMUSEUM, STORE SAL from acts of war in Gaza and on the West Bank. How might a contemporary poem look if About this he has said: “I have painted in a wild expressed through contemporary dance? rage.” Mansour and Gullvåg met and developed Dancer Henriette Hamli interprets the readings their friendship through their paintings and of three of Norway’s most important poets: together organised the exhibition “Situasjoner” , Gunnar Wærness and Cecilie (“Situations”) in Trondheim and Ramallah in Løveid. Henriette Hamli has studied dance at the National Academy of the Arts and has ISOL 2008. Meet them in conversation with journalist WEDNESDAY 3:00 PM GALLERI ZINK | NEVER A GROWN-UP and former foreign correspondent Sidsel Wold. a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz dance. She now “The illustrator as author. About finding a unique NOK 100 works as a freelance dancer and has taken part FAMILY SECRETS WEDNESDAY 12:00 AM in both and POP, MOVE and RESIDENS at Dance language for each book.” Isol (Marisol Misenta) GALLERI ZINK | WORDS AND PICTURES House Norway. She has previously interpreted is an Argentenian author of picture books and One morning a little girl gets up earlier than texts through dance with Geir Langslet and Tove an illustrator. She debuted in 1997 with Vida de usual, and she discovers something unbelieva- Tandberg Krafft in a project called Light Of Love. Perros (“A Dog’s Life”). She both writes and ble, something which her mother has until now There will be readings from both published and illustrates her own books, illustrates the works of kept to herself. A secret that makes her and unpublished poems – come and be surprised! other authors, and has for periods of time been her family different from everybody else. How NOK 100 | Book signing and sales the in-house illustrator for one of Argentina’s can she behave normally after having learned largest newspapers. Isol has won a number of this? Meet last year’s ALMA (Astrid Lindgren JULIAN BARNES: «A LIFE WITH BOOKS» prizes and awards, and in 2013 she received Memorial Award) winner, the Argentina author WEDNESDAY 3:00 PM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial A MONSTER CALLS and illustrator Isol (Marisol Misenta) in conversa- KEYNOTE LECTURE Award (ALMA). In addition to Vida de Perros, tion with illustrator Per Dybvig. also Secreto de familia (“Family Secrets”) and WEDNESDAY 12:00 AM | BINGO’N | GROTTEN The British author Julian Barnes has an Moderator: Veronica Salinas. Nocturne: Dream Recipes have been translated A Monster Calls is a project that was started abundant literary production under his belt and For children | Free of charge into Norwegian. Meet Isol in conversation with by British author Siobhan Dowd, but which she in 2011 he received the Man Booker Prize for the The event will be in Spanish and Norwegian the Swedish picture book critic Ulla Rhedin never had the opportunity to finish because she novel The Sense of an Ending. At the Norwegian about the process behind her picture books. was afflicted with cancer and died. Patrick Ness Festival of Literature 2014 he appears for the NOK 100 | The event will be in English picked up the baton and completed the book, first time on stage at a Norwegian literature 8 99 WEDNESDAY 21 MAY WEDNESDAY 21 MAY THE BODY’S EXPERIENCES WEDNESDAY 4:00 PM | NORDIC FANTASY, WHAT IS IT? friends an idea of how they have gone from each with his or her respective new short story. HVELVET | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS MEETING WEDNESDAY 5:00 – 8:00 PM | GALLERI ZINK | SEMINAR being political activists to becoming modern The moderators are Janneken Øverland and For this year’s Bjørnson lecturer, Slavenka In 2013 Seita Meri Vuorela was awarded the first day icons. Eirik Ingebrigtsen. Drakulić, fiction and society cannot be viewed The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s In collaboration with Lillehammer kino In collaboration with Active Communications in isolation from each other: She has written Literature Prize for the book Karikko. She will be NOK 100 | Russian dialog with english text Society, Poland| Made possible by funding novels about the war in the Balkans, about rape interviewed here by Stig Elvis Furset. from the EEA, Polish Ministry and Promotion of in a prison camp in Serbia, about people in need GARDEN PARTY Diversity in Culture and Arts | Free of charge of organ transplants, and she is interested in Karikko is a fantasy book with a difference. Is WEDNESDAY 6:00 – 11:00 PM | THE NANSEN ACADEMY The event will be in Polish and Norwegian women’s experiences of their own bodies, of it an expression of Nordic fantasy literature’s Come along with us, out into the light summer vulnerability, sexuality, aging. What does she own difference? If so, what does the difference evening for a barbecue, wine, readings and think about the relation between reality and consist of, and does it mean that Nordic fantasy music. Monika Fagerholm (FI), Josefine Klougart literature? Slavenka Drakulić meets Mustafa Can literature in general brings something new to (DK) and Ruth Lillegraven (NO) will read. There for a discussion. the genre? These questions will be debated will be an open mike later in the evening for NOK 100 | The event will be in English by a panel offering the reflections of scholarly courageous debut authors and others who want distance and engaged authors. Panel members: to jump in with their own texts. Concert by the Martin Fyrileiv, author, Anna Karlskov Skygge- jazzed-up crossover band Ted Glen Extended.

bjerg, scholar, Mari Moen Holsve, author and In collaboration with The Nansen Academy |

Mette Hofsødegård, critic. NOK 100 | In the event of rain the event will be

Organiser: The Norwegian Institute of held indoors

Children’s Books (NBI) and Norwegian Writers LITERARY DEATH MATCH! WEDNESDAY

for Children (NBU) | Free of charge | Open to 10:00 – 12:00 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, FESTSALEN TRANSGRESSIONS: NORWEGIAN-POLISH general public | The event will be in Finnish, 4 authors, 3 judges, 2 finalists and 1 finale SHORT STORY MEETING Norwegian and English WEDNESDAY 7:00 – 8:30 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, – welcome to an entertaining evening of FESTSALEN Norwegian quality literature, presented with a twist of circus and stunts! Here the audience READING – BLOOD AND ROSES BY KATE PENDRY PUSSY RIOT, A PUNK PRAYER Do Norwegian and Polish contemporary short will witness enthusiastic readings, led by the WEDNESDAY 5:00 – 7:00 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, WEDNESDAY 6:00 – 8:30 PM | LILLEHAMMER KINO | FILM stories have something in common, and if always refreshingly energetic presenter Adrian HOLBØSALEN | DRAMA Mike Lerner and Maksim Pozdorovkin, 2013, 88 min. so, what? What happens to the stories we Todd Zuniga, flown in from the USA for the In Blood and Roses the ghost of Marilyn Monroe When the feminist group Pussy Riot performed tell when we start crossing geographic and occasion. Literary Death Match has travelled all meets Jackie Kennedy as Jackie is praying a 40-second punk prayer in one of Russia’s most cultural borders? The aim of the project «Trans- over the world, with performances in London, beside her dead husband’s coffin in November important cathedrals, they were arrested and gressions» is to increase the knowledge of Los Angeles, and Hong Kong, and now 1963. The production was written in connection charged with religious hate and blasphemy. Polish literature in Norway and of Norwegian Lillehammer’s up! We are betting on a high with the 50-year commemoration of the assasi- The trial awoke attention all over the world. literature in Poland and we have invited four showmanship factor and a large beer factor, nation of John F. Kennedy. Suzie Davis and Mai authors to meet for readings and discussion: good texts and ruthlessly sincere judges. The Lise Rasmussen will give a reading of the work. The Oscar-nominated directors followed the Laila Stien is one of Norway’s foremost short authors on stage this evening are Gine Cornelia Afterwards Hans Petter Blad invites us to a group for six months and give us access to story authors and Mikkel Bugge’s short story Pedersen, Ellisiv Lindkvist, Lars Ramslie and Ola conversation with dramatist Kate Pendry. exceptional footage about the three women collection Tauet (“The Rope”) has won critical Jostein Jørgensen. Jury: Cathrine Sandnes, John In collaboration with The Norwegian Centre behind the colourful balaclavas. While acclaim. Marek Bienczyk and Inga Iwasiów Erik Riley and Torgrim Eggen. NOK 100 | The for New Playwriting and The Writer’s Guild of they defend themselves from a cage in the are prominent and well-known authors from event will be in Norwegian and English Norway | NOK 100 | Performed in English courtroom, we receive through family and Poland and all four will come to Lillehammer, 10 1111 THURSDAY 22 MAY THURSDAY 22 MAY A MONSTER CALLS THURSDAY 10:00 AM unrest in the region. Among her works found in THURSDAY LUNCH THURSDAY 1:00 PM | SØNDRE PARK This year’s Bjørnson lecturer is an internation- GAUSDAL BIBLIOTEK | AUTHORS MEETING Norwegian are Hvordan vi overlevde kommu- | LUNCH IN THE PARK Surrounded by birch trees ally recognised author and women’s rights A Monster Calls is a project started by the nismen – og kunne le av den (How We Survived and cheerful festival guests you can enjoy activist from Croatia, now a resident of Sweden British author Siobhan Dowd, which she was Communism and Even Laughed) and Som om a cup of coffee or a full lunch, while you are and Austria. Here we meet her in conversation never able to carry out, because she was jeg ikke fantes (As if I Am Not There). also served spiritual nourishment. Readings with peace researcher Inger Skjelsbæk and the afflicted with cancer and died. Patrick Ness by Arne Lygre: Ingenting av meg (“Nothing of audience. Organiser: The Nansen Academy in col- picked up the baton and completed the book, Inger Skjelsbæk gives an introduction: «About me”), Dorthe Nors: Minna mangler et øvelokale laboration with Lillehammer University College. which is about the 13-year old Conor and his the Balkans, war, and peace in the writing of (“Minna Needs Rehearsal Space”), Helga NOK 100 | The conversation will be in English difficulties tackling his mother having cancer. Slavenka Drakulić». She is deputy director at Flatland: Det finnes ingen helhet (“There is no “There are books that tear down all defence the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Whole”), and Patrick Ness: The Monster Calls. SIMPLE FARE IN THE SPIRIT OF PRØYSEN mechanisms. And then there you sit, alone with is very knowledgeable about the situation in Moderator: Lina Undrum Mariussen. THURSDAY 5:00 PM | PRØYSENHUSET the book and your own heart,” Tyra T. Tronstad the Balkans. Musical tidbits from the Balkans Free of charge | Book signing and sales «It was possible to survive for a long time on wrote about the book on her blog. Meet the by Emanuel Manolov. In collaboration with The event will be in Norwegian and English gravy and potatoes.» Our hostess Brit, from the American author Patrick Ness in conversation Lillehammer University College, the Nansen Simenstad Guest Farm, offers good, old-fash- with Tyra T. Tronstad. Academy and Maihaugen. Free of charge | Bus SUCCESS STORIES FROM ABROAD ioned farmer’s lapskaus stew with Norwegian For upper and lower secondary school children from the Nansen Academy from Lillehammer THURSDAY 2:00 PM | HVELVET flatbread, and apple and cranberry compote. Skysstasjon at 9:30 AM. Return trip at 12:15 PM | The event will be in English | Free of charge The business of publishing is sometimes For dessert cold rhubarb soup with cream, The event will be in English referred to as «the mystery of publishing». stovetop and bread dough coffee. The meal THE BJØRNSON LECTURE: «PEACE AND What is it that makes a book become a huge will bring back memories of former times and success in some countries, but completely Prøysen’s lyrics. «There should be a pail of cold, DIALOGUE » THURSDAY 10:00 – 12:00 AM LILLEHAMMER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE disappear from sight in others? Publishers from good rhubarb soup.»

Slavenka Drakuli from Croatia will give a England, , Finland and the Nether- ć If you have taken part in the Prøysen seminar lecture about peace and dialogue from the lands share their best success stories with one during the day, or planned to attend the perspective of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. another and the audience. In collaboration with theatre concert Out for a sail on Mjøsa lake. Through a diverse and internationally rec- The Norwegian Publishers Association, NORLA Prøysen and Wreswiik in the same boat ognised body of literary work, Drakuli has and Norwegian agents | Free of charge ć in the evening, a serving of simple fare in the written about life under communism, war, and The discussion will be in English READINGS BY ICORN GUEST WRITERS spirit of Prøysen is both fitting and welcome! violations of women, in articles, novels and THURSDAY 11:00 AM | SØNDRE PARK | MORNING IN THE PARK In collaboration with Prøysenhuset and non-fiction. As a women’s rights activist she They are all in exile in Norway after having Simenstad Guest Farm | NOK 200 has had a particular interest in the impact of provoked the authorities of their respective (not included in festival pass) both the communist form of governance and countries with their literature. This year we will fill subsequent wars on the situation of women this hour with readings from four former ICORN OUT FOR A SAIL ON MJØSA LAKE. in the Balkans. Drakulić focuses on stories of guest writers, all of whom are poets: Nada Yousif families and individuals rather than on geo- PRØYSEN AND VREESWIIK IN THE SAME BOAT from Molde/Iraq, Basim Mardan from Skien/Iraq, THURSDAY 6:00 PM | PRØYSENHUSET | THEATER CONCERT political issues and ideas about modern day Manal Al-Sheikh from Stavanger/Iraq and Asieh Here songs and texts by two neighbouring warfare. She left Croatia due to threats in Amini from Trondheim/Iran. Moderator: Carl A CONVERSATION WITH SLAVENKA DRAKULIC countries’ great troubadours will be presented: response to her unflinching depictions of the Morten Iversen. Free of charge | The event will be THURSDAY 2:00 – 3:30 PM | THE NANSEN ACADEMY Alf Prøysen, born just before the First World human beings and the cultural and political in Norwegian, English and Arabic – How shall one write about war and violation? War, and Cornelis Vreeswijk, born just before 12 1313 THURSDAY 22 MAY FRIDAY 23 MAY the Second. Their music captured the spirit of Lea, Arnt Birkedal, Christian Valeur, Heidi We start out with a meeting with author Julian their times like none other. Sævareid and Isol (winner of ALMA in 2013). Barnes, one of the leading figures of British Host: Jon Ewo. literature, and the winner of the Man Booker Prøysen from the countryside, from the austere In collaboration with Norwegian Writers for Prize in 2011 for his novel The Sense of an era when people got married once in a lifetime, Children (NBU) | Free of charge | The event will Ending. On this occasion Barnes will appear the time of the little people of humble means be in Norwegian and English for the first time on stage at a Norwegian

in northern Europe, those prone to abstruse- literature event, in conversation with ness of speech more than hyperbole – the Linn Ullmann. origin of his songs is in the folk song tradition of the Norwegian-Swedish small towns and KURKOV AND KIEV forests. Vreeswijk from the city, Amsterdam/ FRIDAY 11:00 AM | LILLEHAMMER KUNSTMUSEUM, KAFEEN | Stockholm, with powerful wartime experi- THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT ences, of an urban generation who married Andrej Kurkov is considered one of Ukraine’s several times, the international artist influenced most prominent authors and experienced his by blues, samba, the Swedish sailor’s waltz, great literary breakthrough with the satirical Finnish tango, French chansons, protest songs novel Picknick on the Ice, a dark, absurd from many countries. comedy from post-Soviet Ukraine. As a

BANAZ – A LOVE STORY Ukraine citizen with a Russian background and Prøysen with his fear of water, terrified of THURSDAY 6:00 – 8:30 PM | LILLEHAMMER KINO | FILM language, Kurkov has one foot in each world, being out on the ocean. Vreeswijk an avid Director: Deeyah Kahn. Duration: 70 min. transcending Russian and Ukrainian identities swimmer, open-sea diver, sailboat skipper. We look forward to a powerful reading by A Norwegian-British documentary from 2012 and affiliations. He has in recent times lived Great contrasts. And nonetheless, great simi- the Danish star poet and debut author Yahya about Banaz Mahod, the British-Kurdish in the midst of the uprisings and violence in larities. Prøysen Norway’s Bellman, the founder Hassan, who has had more than 100,000 woman who was murdered in an honour killing Kiev, and has written a number of reports from of the Norwegian folk song tradition — two poetry books sold and otherwise incited in 2006. Banaz filed for divorce and went to Ukraine for the British media. We ask Kurkov centuries after the Swedish fountainhead, the the wrath of large portions of the Danish the police several times to seek protection how he sees Ukraine’s immediate future and work of whom Cornelis Vreeswijk both learned immigrant community with his autobiographi- from her 17 years older, violent husband how the development of the country, since the from and cultivated. Håkon Paulsberg plays the cal poems. from an arranged marriage. She was killed dissolution of the Soviet Union, is depicted in guitar and performs the songs, is by her family for having fallen in love with contemporary literature. Moderator: Ane our literary guide, storyteller and poetry reader. Norway’s leading short story author Kjell another man. The film won the prestigious Tusvik Bonde. NOK 100 In collaboration with Prøysenhuset | NOK 200 | Askildsen is considered one of the greatest Emmy Award for the best international TV The conversation will be in English The performance is in Norwegian documentary in 2013. In collaboration with prose writers of Norwegian post-war literature. He will talk about how he looks back on a long Lillehammer kino and Lillehammer filmklubb ART MARKET FRIDAY 11:00 AM 4:00 PM SIGRID CHILDREN’S BOOK BAR NOK 100 life filled with short stories. He meets Alf van − | THURSDAY 6:00 PM | CAFÉ STIFT der Hagen for a conversation. UNDSETS PLASS Some of the foremost handicrafts- men and women from Norway exhibit their Six authors present their books for children Host for the evening: Linn Ullmann. Music by GALA EVENING works of ceramics, textiles, jewellery, glass, and and young people and this evening they will Kristin Sevaldsen and Lars Andre Kvistum. THURSDAY 7:00 - 9:00 PM | MAIHAUGSALEN more. The artisans will be on site and speak read for curious adults. Hear some of the best NOK 200 | Book signing and sales We celebrate literature with a gala evening that about their artworks. Organiser: Lillehammer of more recent literature for young people. An The first part is in English transcends genre definitions. Important novels, Sentrum and Galleri Zink exciting and fun hour with Lene Ask, Synne short stories and poetry will fill the evening. 14 1515 FRIDAY 23 MAY FRIDAY 23 MAY FRIDAY LUNCH And finally, in-between readings by Linda Polkabjørn and Kleine Heine will give you an FRIDAY 1:00 PM | SØNDRE PARK | LUNCH IN THE PARK Klakken from her poetry debut entitled experience you will never forget. At Holbøsalen Have a cup of coffee and take pleasure in Mamma, kone, slave (“Mum, wife, slave”)– a Kate Pendry changes tack for the occassion the spring weather to the accompaniment manifesto and declaration of love for lesbian to appear as her alter ego Johnny Johnson. of readings by Julian Barnes from The Sense mothers. Moderator: Ellen Svendsen. Finally, Balkan rhythms will lead you out into of an Ending, Cecilie Enger from Mors gaver NOK 100 | Book signing and sales the summer night and you can dance up a (“Mother’s Gifts”), Peter Fröberg Idling from Parts of the conversation will be in English SVETLANA ALEKSIJEVITSJ sweat to Solfrid Molland and the local heroes Sang til den storm som skal komme (Song for ABOUT THE WOMEN’S WAR Jo Skaansar and Hayden Powell, who for the an Approaching Storm) and Ellen Fjestad from occasion have with them Pascal de Loutchek FRIDAY 5:00 PM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK | from Russia. Tickets NOK 350. The evening’s Sammen skal vi holde himmelen (“Together we INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS MEETING will hold heaven”). Moderator: Ane Nydal. bank director: Adrian Todd Zuniga from USA With the documentary book The Unwomanly Free of charge | Book signing and sales Face of War, Svetlana Aleksijevitsj went The event will be in Norwegian and English. POETRY SLAM 8:00 PM HOLBØSALEN against the official Soviet depiction of the BOWIE IN ! 9:00 PM CAFÉ STIFT war effort during the Second World War. The FAREWELL TO MOTHER FRIDAY 2:00 PM discussion will revolve around how the book POLKABJØRN LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK | NORDIC AUTHORS MEETING came about, and delve into women’s concrete AND KLEINE HEINE 10:00 PM FESTSALEN At this event we will bid farewell to two experiences from the war, and how these KATE PENDRY A.K.A. mothers and welcome new mothers. experiences deviate from those of men. Alek- JOHNNY JOHNSON 10:30 PM HOLBØSALEN sijevitsj provokes and challenges the Soviet SOLFRID MOLLAND TRIO Cecilie Enger received the Booksellers Prize WHAT’S NEW FROM GREAT BRITAIN? Union’s idealised self-image and sense of pride WITH PASCAL DE LOUTCHEK 11:30 PM FESTSALEN last year for the novel Mors gaver (“Mother’s FRIDAY 4:00 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, FESTSALEN following the victory in this war – here she will Gifts”). As her mother’s memory is gradually INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS MEETING speak about how this was received when her POETRY SLAM erased by Alzheimer’s, the family history British-Somali Nadifa Mohamed took the book was published and present the women’s FRIDAY 8:00 PM | CAFÉ STIFT is brought to life when Cecilie finds her reading public by storm with her debut novel own stories. Svetlana Aleksijevitsj in conversa- A poetry slam is a competition situated mother’s meticulously detailed lists of all of Black Mamba Boy in 2010, in which she tells tion with her Swedish publisher Ola Wallin. somewhere between a poetry reading, the Christmas gifts from four decades. This is her own father’s story from East Africa. She NOK 100 | Interpretation of the conversation stand-up and the spoken word. Participants a warm and gripping story about memory and has now written a second novel also available into Russian and Norwegian are judged on the basis of both the text forgetting. in Norwegian translation: The Orchard of they perform and how they perform it. The Lost Souls (De tapte sjelers land). Mohamed’s audience decides! The Norwegian poetry Icelandic Sölvi Björn Sigurdsson meets death BANK NIGHT writing moves between cultures and national slam championship is being organised this with a good portion of humour in the novel FRIDAY 8:00 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN borders, between Somalia and London. She year for the ninth time and the winner in Siðustu dagar móður minnar (“My Mother’s During Bank Night, it will simmer and seethe was chosen for Granta’s list of Great Britain’s Lillehammer will go on to the final which will Last Day”). The son Herman accompanies his both inside and out of Kulturhuset Banken. ten most important young authors for this be held in Oslo in the autumn. Show up and mother on a final trip to Amsterdam, where Take part in cheering on the best poetry decade, and thereby represents a new and take part in choosing the national champion! she wants to check in at the Lavland clinic for slammers who will come out swinging in the important generation of authors. Moderator: Do you want to take part in the slam? Contact one last soothing treatment before she dies of Holbøsalen. Move on down to Café Stift to be Ellen Svendsen. NOK 100 | Book signing and [email protected]/ 406 06 499. See terminal cancer. But first she is determined to led into a world of Bowie and Berlin. If you sales | The event will be in English www.foreningenles.no. In collaboration with enjoy life and have one final spree. wish to expand your repertoire with a bit of yodelling, you can stop by at Festsalen, where Foreningen !les | The event will be in Norwegian 16 1717 FRIDAY 23 MAY SATURDAY 24 MAY BOWIE AND BERLIN FRIDAY 9:00 PM | CAFÉ STIFT Grieg Academy in Bergen and has grown out cultural heritage is the theme! breaking when the book was published in the Torgrim Eggen wrote his first article about of the shadow of his former mentors. It is im- Musicians: Soviet Union in the 1980s. She has also inter- David Bowie’s Berlin period for the journal possible to be fully prepared emotionally for Solfrid Molland (vocals, accordian, piano) viewed hundreds of people who experienced Ballade in 1983. In this music lecture, based on what you will experience at Kulturhuset Banken Pascal de Loutchek (vocals, guitar) first-hand the consequences of the Chernobyl the book Berlin. Det 20. århundrets hovedstad, on this evening. Hayden Powell (trumpet) accident in the book Voices from Chernobyl. (”Berlin. The capital of the 20th century”) he Jo Skaansar (contrabass) Åsne Seierstad has as an author and reporter will tell us about the powerful convergence of worked with descriptions of the realities in a Bowie’s musical and political ideas for a period SATURDAY MORNING SATURDAY 11:00 AM number of regions at war. In this conversa- of a few of years in the shadow of the Wall. SØNDRE PARK | MORNING IN THE PARK tion they will speak about how they work with The result was a type of music that set the A refreshing start to the day with readings documentary materials and approach this tone for an entire generation and which is still by Mona Høvring from Camillas lange netter reality by allowing the personal voices, stories experienced as current, even 37 years later. The (“Camilla’s Long Nights”), Josefine Klougart and eye witness accounts emerge. Moderator lecture was held for the first time at the House from Om mørke, (“On Darkness”) along with Ellen Svendsen has worked in Jerusalem and of Literature in September and has been met Andrej Kurkov ("Picnic on Ice") and Eivind Kabul, and has a background from freelance with great enthusiasm on the part of many and Evjemo ("Det siste du skal se er et ansikt av journalism. vexed the eardrums of others. kjærlighet"). Moderator: Ane Nydal NOK 100 | Simultaneous interpretation of the The event will be in Norwegian. JOHNNY IN THE BANK Free of charge | The event will be in Norwegian conversation into Russian and Norwegian. | FRIDAY 10:30 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, HOLBØSALEN and English Book signing and sales A rare opportunity to meet Johnny Johnson – Kate Pendry’s friend, alter ego, and the man ART MARKET GARDEN STROLL SATURDAY 11:30 AM | AULESTAD inside every woman! «At her best, Kate Pendry SATURDAY 11:00 AM | SIGRID UNDSETS PLASS Get to know Aulestad’s garden where Bjo- can conjure up the now deceased comedian Some of the foremost handicraftsmen and ernsstjerne Bjoernson lived. Gardener Bjørn Bill Hicks. With an aggressive and profoundly women from Norway exhibit their work in Mølmen takes us on a stroll and tells us about felt humanism they both have the ability to hit ceramics, textiles, jewellery, glass, etc. The the original garden and how it came to be the the nail on the head of political issues and they artists themselves will be on site and talk about garden we see today. share the same off-colour humor.» POLKABJØRN AND KLEINE HEINE FRIDAY 10:00 PM their own artworks. Organiser: Aulestad | NOK 100 Morgenbladet The event will be in English | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, FESTSALEN | CONCERT Organiser: Lillehammer Sentrum and Galleri Spur of the moment participation in the Zink SATURDAY LUNCH SOLFRID MOLLAND TRIO (NORWAY) Yodelling Festival in Huttwil, Switzerland in SATURDAY 1:00 PM | SØNDRE PARK | LUNCH IN THE PARK WITH PASCAL DE LOUTCHEK (RUSSIA) the summer of 2007 produced the duo Polk- THOSE WITHOUT VOICE TAKE THE FLOOR Readings by Nadifa Mohamed The Orchard FRIDAY 11:30 PM | KULTURHUSET BANKEN, of the Lost Souls, Nina Lykke Oppløsnings- abjørn & Kleine Heine. A mere five years later, FESTSALEN | CONCERT SATURDAY 11:00 AM | LILLEHAMMER BIBLIOTEK they have performed for both royalty and INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS MEETING tendenser (“Disintegration”), Knut Nærum The evening is wound up by a concert with ragamuffins, literally. Polkabjørn is not only Svetlana Aleksijevitsj from the Republic of Nordmenn som rimer (“ Who a Eastern European flavour, in the manner of one of Northern Europe’s best yodeller but in conversation with Åsne Seierstad. Rhyme”), Maria Parr Tonje Glimmerdal and Yrsa Russian and Romanian music and Molland’s he has also become a proper overtone singer. Drawing from her book The Unwomanly Face Sigurðardóttir (”The Unwanted”). Moderator: own compositions in rapid transitions between Accordion virtuoso Kleine Heine was at the age of War Aleksijevitsj offers insights on her work Ane Nydal. passionate velocity and beautiful melancholy. of 14 a well-established jazz musician and was of documenting Soviet women’s history from Free of charge | Book signing and sales | The The music culture of the Romani people and also renowned jazz musician Ola Kvernberg’s World War II, something which was ground- event will be in Norwegian and English their positive influence on our European former sidekick. Heine is now studying at the 18 1919 SATURDAY 24 / SUNDAY 25 MAY EXHIBITIONS ELENA SATURDAY 5:30 PM | LILLEHAMMER KINO | FILM Palestine. In Mansour’s works, the Israeli Russian drama (2011) by Andrej Zvjaglntsev. occupation is a consistent and recurring 1 hour and 50 min. theme. He is co-author of the book Both The winner of the jury’s prize at Cannes 2011 Sides of Peace. Håkon Gullvåg was born in and the prize for the best film at the Tromsø Trondheim in 1959, and works primarily in International Film Festival, the film asks a Trondheim and Oslo. As a painter he has held a number of fundamental moral questions and key position on the Norwegian arts scene since is simultaneously a subtle analysis of today’s his artistic breakthrough at Galleri Dobloug in Russia. The tension in the film is propelled 1983, and his work has been purchased by a forward by the main character’s dillemma and number of important institutions. Since 1995 the choices she makes. In the exquisite, long Gullvåg’s ornamentation of churches has given takes, often without dialogue and sparingly him a position as one of the country’s foremost accompanied by Philip Glass’ original music, artists in the field of church art. Parallel to this STEIN TORLEIF BJELLA SUNDAY 8:00 – 9:30 PM | he has received great recognition for his many CUBAN AUTHORS MEETING director Andrej Zvjagintsev and actress KULTURHUSET BANKEN, FESTSALEN | CONCERT SATURDAY 6:00 PM | CAFÉ STIFT Nadezhda Markina produce a strong character portraits of persons of significance in Norway. Loneliness and the life of small town Norway Meet two of Cuba’s most prominent and cel- study and a nuanced portrait of a woman who In the past ten years Gullvåg has also worked are recurring themes in Bjella’s melancholy ebrated authors who are visiting Lillehammer is neither a heroine nor a victim. NOK 100 with the graphic arts and is best known for lyrics. He has called for greater awareness of the together for the first time. Leonardo Padura is his lithographs but in recent years has also importance of lyrics on the part of Norwegian Cuba’s king of crime fiction. He has received developed an interest in gravure printing. ICELANDIC HORROR WITH YRSA musicians and is considered one of Norway’s a number of awards and commemorations for Organiser: Galleri Zink | Exhibition opening SIGURÐARDÓTTIR foremost lyricists. For Vonde visu (Oh Yeah!) his prolific literary production and his work 20 MAY at 5:00 PM SUNDAY 12:00 AM | CAFÉ STIFT (Songs of Pain (Oh Yeah!)), released in 2011, has also been translated into a long list of She has been nominated for the Nordic Glass he was awarded the Norwegian music prizes languages. He is especially well-known for the A THOUSAND THREADS Key award and is considered Iceland’s queen of Spellemannprisen, Prøysenprisen and Ben- Havana quartet, where we meet the unconven- the crime fiction genre: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is diksenprisen. In Heim for å døy (Home to die) – A STORY TOLD IN TEXTILES tional investigator Mario Conde who brings With this comprehensive exhibition the the author behind the series about Thóra Gud- (2013), his last album, a darker Bjella emerges. us along into a Cuba we had no idea existed. Lillehammer Art Museum and Maihaugen mundsdóttir and also a number of individual With greater variation and a rougher expression Wendy Guerra has made her mark internation- join forces in throwing light on the history of crime novels. Her most recent crime novel, De he delivers a modern Norwegian classic. ally especially for her novels, which offer an textile art’s beautiful creations, from utility uønskede, (”The Unwanted”) follows the hero NOK 350 | The event will be in Norwegian. unvarnished portrait of the living conditions Óðinn Hafsteinsson and his investigation of objects to freestanding and thought provoking in Cuba. Although she is still not allowed to suspicions of child abuse at Krokur, a treatment contemporary artworks. A selection of textile publish her novels in her own country, she facility for boys from the 1970s. The investiga- EXHIBITIONS: works from the 900s up to the 1800s provides has established herself as a nationally known tions disclose an inhuman regime under which the framework for the Maihaugen presentation. radio voice and poet. Meet the authors, both of two boys have died under brutal circumstanc- FESTIVAL EXHIBITION FEATURING HÅKON The Lillehammer Art Museum continues the whom are launching books during the festival, es. In conversation with Mette Karlsvik. GULLVÅG AND SLIMAN MANSOUR story by allowing the textile objects to depart in conversation with literary scholar and Cuba Free of charge | Book signing and sales from the realm of usage and instead take the The artists meet: Håkon Gullvåg and Sliman expert Hans Jacob Ohldieck from the Univer- The event will be in English pulse of the contemporary expression of today. sity of Bergen. Mansour 20 MAY until 14 juni Organiser: Lillehammer Kunstmuseum and NOK 100 | Simultaneous interpretation of the Sliman Mansour is a Palestinian painter. He Maihaugen | The exhibition will run from conversation into Spanish and Norwegian. is viewed as one of the foremost artists in 23 Nov. 2013 – 1 June 2014. 20 2121 EXHIBITIONS INFO

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