ENGLISH PROGRAM WELCOME HIGHLIGHTS PROGRAMME 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 Norwegian literature event, here in meeting and conversation with Linn Ullmann. In addition there will be a reading by the Danish star poet Yahya Hassan and a meeting with Norway’s foremost short story author Kjell Askildsen. Read more on page 14 POETRY AND DANCE 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 HIGHLIGHTS PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS PROGRAMME 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 TUESDAY OPENING PERFORMANCE as a whole. The winners of the Dobloug Prize 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 WEDNESDAY SACRED LAND AND WILD RAGE.
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