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This Year’s Festival Artist is Nikolai Torgersen
He has been compared to Bjarne Melgaard and Edvard Munch; people stand in line for hours when he has exhibitions. Now he has created a work of art that will adorn the Norwegian Festival of Literature's poster and program booklet for 2023. During the festival, he will...
Hernan Diaz is Coming to Lillehammer
The novel Trust by Hernan Diaz is gaining ground worldwide. You can experience him in Lillehammer this spring. Hernan Diaz was born in Argentina and grew up in Sweden, but he has spent most of his life in the United States. And it is precisely American history that is...
Future Library-authors to Lillehammer
This year's Future Library Author is the German author Judith Schalansky. Her originality, time span and wingspan as a writer and book artist have been greatly celebrated. Schalansky is coming to Oslo this spring to hand over her new manuscript. Author Ocean Vuong,...
The Bjørnson Prize 2022 goes to Niviaq Korneliussen
The Bjørnson Prize 2022 is awarded to Greenlandic author Niviaq Korneliussen for her contribution to highlighting a major social problem through fiction. In Bjørnson's spirit, she writes accessible and popular in a realistic tradition that not least reaches out to...
2022 Programme Launched!
Nobel Laureates, international star writers, freedom of expression and concerts make up Nobel Laureates, international star writers, freedom of expression, and concerts highlight this year's edition of the Norwegian Festival of Literature. We have an extensive...
Lillehammer Rights establishing at the Norwegian Festival of Literature
A new meeting place for literature, purchase and sale of rights Lillehammer Rights is a new meeting place for publishers, agents, and subagents from all over Europe. There is a long tradition of fellowship in Lillehammer and new this year is that we expand the...
Douglas Stuart to the Norwegian Festival of Literature
It's confirmed: Douglas Stuart, the author of the sensation Shuggie Bain, is coming to Norway. He will first visit the House of Literature in Oslo and then the Norwegian Festival of Literature. The author became a star overnight when he won the Booker Prize in 2020. –...
Invitation to Public Meeting on Freedom of Expression
Three Nobel Laureates, local youth and musicians of international class are on stage when newcomers World Expression Forum and Music in Innlandet, in collaboration with the Norwegian Literature Festival and GD, invite to a public meeting on freedom of expression in...
Call for applications: Fellowship program and Lillehammer Rights
NORLA invites foreign publishers, editors, sub-agents, and scouts to apply for the fellowship program at the Norwegian Festival of Literature in Lillehammer, 31 May – 2 June 2022. This year marks the physical opening of the newly established rights centre Lillehammer...
World Expression Forum Establishing in Lillehammer
World Expression Forum (WEXFO) is an international forum for the advancement of freedom of expression. It will take place annually in Lillehammer, in connection with the Norwegian Festival of Literature in May. The festival is a proud partner of WEXFO and will be the...