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Saturday 30/9
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11.00 Sara Baume
11.30 Hildur Knútsdóttir
12.00 Antje Jackelén
10.30–10.50
Sunday Business Post and the Independent and named by Hot Press magazine as one of the ”20 Greatest Irish Novels since 1916”, as they discuss their work and the inspiration for it. Language: English
Eka Kurniawan
A wound from Indonesia’s past
“One afternoon on a weekend in March, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for 21 years”. So begins Eka Kurniawan’s novel Beauty is a wound. This is a reading experience beyond the ordinary, at once a yarn, an epic ghost story and a fascinating account of Indonesia’s 20th century history. Kurniawan, who has drawn comparisons to writers such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez, talks about his novel. Moderator: Ika Johannesson, culture journalist. Language: English Org: Nilsson förlag
11.00–11.45 Yuri Andrukhovych, Radu Vancu, Sofia Branco
New Definitions of freedom
Yurij Andrukhovych (Ukraine), Radu Vancu (Romania), and Sofia Branco (Portugal) discuss displacement, discord and reconstruction in Europe. How do definitions shift in literature as the political landscape does? Language: English Org: Eunic
11.00–11.45 Sally Rooney, Sara Baume, Rob Doyle
Voices from Ireland:The Young generation
Building on the legacy of great contemporary writers like John Banville, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and Sebastian Barry, and of canonical giants like Beckett, Wilde and Joyce, a new generation of talented and innovative young writers has emerged with force in Ireland in the last ten years. Join Sally Rooney, whose debut Conversations with friends was published in May 2017 to widespread attention, Sara Baume, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, among others, for Spill simmer falter wither, and Rob Doyle, whose first novel Here are the young men was chosen as book of the year by The Irish Times, Sunday Times,
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11.00 Sally Rooney country. He has been living in exile since 1982. A conversation with literary scholar Ingrid Elam about his writing and his latest anthology. Language: English Org: Volante
Org: Literature Ireland
11.00–11.45 Frances Hardinge, Lena Ollmark
Faith, doubt, science
Until the mid 19th century, the boundary between faith and science was vague. The clergy were also men of science and they were shaken to the core by the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the origin of species in the middle of the century. How did this momentous transformation affect people? And in what way do the religious doubts of that era differ from those of our modern society? Both British writer Frances Hardinge, author of the atmospheric The Lie tree, and Lena Ollmark, Swedish author of Lägret [The camp] have used literary characters to portray the psychology involving faith and doubt. A conversation between the writers and journalist Lotta Olsson. Language: English Org: B. Wahlströms
11.00–11.45 Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Africa – an inside view
For more than 60 years, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o – a constant subject of Noble Prize speculation – has portrayed the issues, challenges and future facing people on the African continent. In a new essay collection, he talks about colonial violence, the political turmoil after the withdrawal of colonial powers, about the struggle for freedom and being imprisoned for it and about longing for financial equality after years of inequality. Ever since the production of his first play in 1962, his prolific literary output, which includes many modern classics, has earned him an indisputable place on the literary scene. wa Thiong’o’s decision to write only in his native language Kikuyu has caused his books to be banned in his native
11.30–11.50 Hildur Knútsdóttir
Children and horror Writing for YA in Iceland – filling the gap Until recently, there has been a big gap in the literature avalible for YA in Iceland. In the past few years, Icelandic authors have made some efforts to fill this gap and Hildur Knútsdóttir, for one, has done it very successfully with her two extremely well received books Winter frost and Winter dark. A converstion about her ideas and works and why she believes children love to read about horror. Language: English Org: Icelandic Literature Center
12.00–12.45 Heinz Schilling, Antje Jackelén
The problematic hero Who was Luther truly, and how does his heritage live on? This year marks 500 years since Martin Luther is said to have nailed his famous theses on the doors of the Wittenberg church. An act that fanned the flames of what we refer to as the Reformation. In a new production from SVT (the Swedish public service television company), Mark Levengood travels through Sweden, Norway and Germany in order to learn more. He chairs a conversation with German historian and writer Heinz Schilling, a leading authority on Martin Luther, and Archbishop Antje Jackelén. Who was Martin Luther, really? How does his heritage live on? And is the Reformation in fact still in progress? Language: English Org: Church of Sweden