OPENING PERFORMANCE

The theme of this year’s literature festival is The World, and this will truly be represented in the opening performance. From different corners of the globe, authors will present a tasting menu of some of the world’s finest contemporary literature.
The authors on stage have all been on a journey, moving between continents, cultures and identities. They write stories with inspiration, based on experiences which together form a large global literary community.
This will be a wonderful hour combining catchy rhythmic music, inherited oral storytelling traditions, autobiographical experiences, imaginative sonorous poetry and reports from the outbreak of war.
Authors:
Koleka Putuma, South Africa
Fatemeh Ekhtesari, Iran/Norway
Athena Farrokhzad, Iran/Sweden
Oksana Zabushko, Ukraine
Åsne Seierstad, Norway
Quynh Tran, Finland
Amitav Ghosh, India
Music: Urban Tunélls Klezmer Band
Director: Victoria Bakke
Scenographer: Christine Lore
Light: Jostein Kjorstad
Presentation of the Bjørnsonprisen and the Norske Doblougprisene.

Tuesday 23. May

19:00-20:30

380
Maihaugsalen