Literature Days: Daily program Friday

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12.00 THE POWER OF CHANGE: AASMUND OLAVSSON VINJE AND DØLEN How is Vinje a classic and how is what he wrote alive for us today?
Editor and author Trygve Riiser Gundersen talks about Vinje’s ability and willingness to change, as a linguistic and journalistic pioneer.

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13.15 SHORT STORIES WITH DRIVE AND POWER Monica Goksøyr was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas Debutant Prize 2023 for her short story collection Bad Girls. Meet her in conversation with author Olaug Nilssen.

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14.30 ROMANTIC PAST, DYSTOPIAN FUTURE What does literature say about nature?
Can literature empower action in the face of the climate crisis? In 2022, Bernhard Ellefsen published the book What gets lost.
Møt han i samtale med Thor Magnus Tangerås som i 2024 gav ut diktsamlinga Landscape with wind turbines.
Samtaleleiar er professor i nordisk litteratur ved Universitetet i Bergen, Eirik Vassenden.

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15.30 BLUE WELD What is the power of the unseen?
In 2023, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to author, poet and playwright Jon Fosse.
Actor and director Hildegun Riise and fiddler and composer Benedicte Maurseth perform the poetry concert Blue hover based on Jon Fosse’s authorship.