place

Norwegian Festival of Literature

1993 establishments in NorwayAnnual events in NorwayCulture in OpplandLillehammerLiterary festivals in Norway
Recurring events established in 1993

The Norwegian Festival of Literature (in Norwegian Sigrid Undset-dagene) is the biggest non commercial literary festival in the Nordic countries taking place in May/June in Lillehammer every year since 1995. The festival includes all the Nordic countries in its scope and has developed into a popular festival where both writers and people from the book publishing industry, both domestic and foreign, are represented. The 2013-festival had over 200 events, 400 artists/writers and counted 24,173 visitors. The program consists of debates, readings, concerts, films, seminars, theater, interviews and more and the visitors are represented by kids, journalists, publishers, up and coming writers, librarians, students, translators, critics, politicians, local readers and the general public. Pegasus is the festival's offering to children and youths and consists of nearly one-third of the program. J.M. Coetzee, Herta Müller, Amos Oz, Zadie Smith, Per Petterson, Märta Tikkanen, André Brink, Margaret Atwood, John Irving, Ko Un, Sofi Oksanen, Shaun Tan, Adonis, Antony and the Johnsons, Abdulrazak Gurnah are amongst the previous guests at the festival.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Norwegian Festival of Literature (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors).

Norwegian Festival of Literature
Wieses gate, Lillehammer

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Phone number Website Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Norwegian Festival of LiteratureContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 61.116 ° E 10.4633 °
placeShow on map

Address

Lillehammer bibliotek

Wieses gate
2609 Lillehammer, Vingnes
Norway
mapOpen on Google Maps

Phone number

call+4761247140

Website
lillehammerbibliotek.no

linkVisit website

Share experience

Nearby Places