THE NORWEGIAN FESTIVAL OF LITERATURE
Next festival: 25th to 30th of May 2021!
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“The outcome of festivals like this, is usually that it aquaints more readers with a wider assortment of writers and books. People come to these things to discover.”
Recordings from the festival
Three of Latin America’s most important writers are ready for the literature festival!
The Norwegian Festival of Literature is proud to present three of the most significant voices in contemporary Latin American literature - the award-winning, hard-hitting authors Samanta Schweblin, Mariana Enriquez and Valeria Luiselli. On numerous occasions we have...
The complete program for the mini festival on the Frankfurter Buchmesse
Dag Solstad in Germany, Nature and Literature and in the mind of a writer. These are the names of four of 15 program posts in total...
The literature festival 2019 is still alive – on YouTube
The Norwegian Festival of Literature 2019 is now history, but luckily we have a handful of the program posts from the Lillehammer house of literature and the festival tent at Stortorget on tape. Videos will be released during the summer and autumn at our...
Focus on Spanish language literature in 2020
The next edition of the Norwegian Festival of Literature will be held from the 25th to the 31st of May 2020. As always at Lillehammer, UNESCO City of Literature. This time the main focus of the festival will be Spanish and Latin American literature. More information...
One of the best, and definitely the biggest festival ever!
A huge thank-you to the authors and everyone who contributed on stage at the festival, to the record-breaking audience who contributed to a brilliant festival atmosphere and to all our volunteers who made sure that it became one of the best festivals in the history of...
The Nowegian Festival of Literature on the Frankfurt book fair October 19th 2019
No sooner have we closed the doors on the largest and one of the most successful years of the Norwegian Festival of Literature in Lillehammer, than the details for the festival’s programme in Frankfurt are released. This special edition of the Norwegian Festival of...
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