Literature Days: Dagsprogram laurdag

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10.30 GUIDED TOUR IN VINJESTOGA V/ANNE ROMTVEIT

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12.00 FORCES OF DOOM AND SALVAGE “Vesaas’s most voluminous powerhouse,” wrote author Inger Bråtveit about the four Klas Dyregodt novels. Bråtveit will give the traditional Vesaas lecture on the series of novels that started with Father’s Journey in 1930 and ended with The heart hears its homeland tones i 1938.

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13.00 BEREFTNESS AND LOSS OF NATURE Journalist and author Marit Beate Kasin has written the book The Nature Paradox, where she writes about nature loss, including in Vinje municipality.
Meet her in conversation with Anne Natvig, curator at Nynorsk kultursentrum.

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14.00 THE POWER OF ART In the fall of 2023, author Svanhild Amdal Telnes wrote a poem about the conflict in Gaza.
What power can literature have in the face of war and conflict?
Telnes reads and leads the reading with Somaya El-Sousi from Palestine and Tesfaldet G. from Eritrea.

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15.15 POWER DEVELOPMENT IN LITERATURE How are the major developments depicted in Norwegian literature in the first half of the last century?
Based on, among other things, Gro Holm’s The white coal (1936), Eirik Vassenden, Professor of Nordic Literature at UiB, provides an overview.