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The Wergeland Lecture 2026
Andrey Kurkov is one of Ukraineâs most central cultural and literary ambassadors. With titles such as Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees, he has gained readers across the world. But when Russiaâs full scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, he was no longer able to write fiction. Instead, he has travelled widely to talk about the reality and brutality of the war, writing essays and a journal from his daily life in the war. Already in 2022, he published Diary Of An Invasion.
Growing up during the Soviet era, Kurkov discovered writers such as George Orwell and Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn through illegal copies. He has experienced first hand what a society without freedom of speech really entails, as well as the role of language and culture in establishing a national identity. Kurkov himself writes in Russian, Ukrainian and English. Part of what Putin is out do destroy is Ukraina as an independent nation, with a culture and a language of its own.
In what ways is Putin appropriating history and culture in his narrative about the invasion? And how has the war â ironically â fortified both Ukraineâs and the rest of the worldâs view of Ukrainian language and culture?
The Wergeland lecture is an annual event. Each year, The House of Literature will invite an international voice who embodies Henrik Wergelandâs spirit in their work and writings.
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Oksana Zabuzhko is one of the central writers of Ukraineâs post-Soviet generation. In 1996, she caused great controversy with her debut novel, Field Work in Ukrainian Sex, in which she challenged the current view won womenâs role in society and in the relationship, where she was expected to be subordinate to the man.
The novel has become a work of reference for Eastern European feminism, and with its exploration of female experience, language and power, it has been compared to writers such as Jamaica Kincaid and Angela Carter.
The novel portrays the destructive relationship between the writer Oksana and the sculptor Mykola, as well as the many challenges Oksana faces as a young female, Ukrainian poet. In an immediate and colloquial language, partly addressed to the reader, partly the narratorâs own stream of conciousness, Zabuzhko navigates what it means to be Ukrainian and what it means to be a woman, at a moment in time when both identities were being negotiated.
Zabuzhko has published a number of award winning novels, essay collections and books of poetry, including The Museum of Abandoned Secrets and The Longest Journey. She has a PhD in philosophy, and she has taught Ukrainian literature at Harvard and the University of Pittsburgh.
Author and historian Lotta Elstad has also explored history and female experience in novels such as Jeg nekter Ä tenke [«I refuse to think»] and the critically acclaimed Xiania series. She joined Zabuzhko for a conversation about sex, love and the view of women in Ukraine.
The conversation was held in English.
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Few historians can match the position of British Anthony Beevor. With his 13 historical book son recent European history, he has become one of the most respected and read writers of history. Especially his books about the Second World War, including Stalingrad and The Second World War have become modern classics.
In his latest book, Beevor delves into the final days of one of historyâs largest empire, the Russian Romanov dynasty. Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs provides a portrait of the «mad monk» Rasputin, and explores how one man seemingly toppled an entire dynasty. Through detailed portraits of the tsar couple, their advisors and the growing revolutionary hunger of the masses, Beevor shows how a combination of political incompetence, religious fanatism and social unrest brought about the catastrophic fall of the dynasty.
The Norwegian author Erika Fatland has travelled all across the former Russian empire. In award winning books like Sovietistan and The Border â A Journey Around Russia, she shows how history affects the region today. She joined Beevor for a conversation about Rasputin, the Romanovs and the fall of an empire.
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No, reading novels is not a solution to our political miseries. For that organization, active resistance, and harder rhetoric is required. But we need stories.
Author Siri Hustvedt said these words during a lecture at the House of Literature in 2017, in Donald Trumpâs first term as president.
Hustvedt is one of those writers who turns to literature as well as organized resistance faced with a harsh political reality. Together with her late husband, the author Paul Auster, she founded Writers Against Trump (today Writers For Democratic Action), a coalition that organizes town hall meetings, protests and political theatre. Hustvedt writes about the beginning of the movement in her latest book, Ghost Stories: A Memoir.
Faced with Trumpâs curbing of rights, and ICEâs conduct in a number of American cities, Hustvedt has been a staunch critic. Raised in Minnesota by Norwegian parents, she soon learned of her motherâs resistance to the Nazi occupation of Norway during the second world war. In a much-shared Facebook post, Hustvedt points to a parallel between the Norwegiansâ resistance and todayâs protests in the US: «the moral choice between accepting fascism and opposing it is the same,» she writes.
What is the current situation in the US like for someone like Hustvedt, seeing ICE patrol her hometown? How are Americans responding to the continuous dismantling of their democracy and constitutional state? What is the role of the writer in critical times, and how may literature confront the material and interpersonal challenges that we are currently facing?
Siri Hustvedt is among the most central writers and thinkers in the US. She has written a number of critically acclaimed novels and essay collections, including The Summer without Men, The Blazing World, The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, and A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women.
At the House of Literature, she was joined by writer and journalist Karin Haugen for a conversation about a US unraveling, and about the resistance in art and community.
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After 43 years together, author Siri Hustvedt loses her husband, the author Paul Auster, to an aggressive form of cancer. Now there is only Siri left, in a time in which memories, smells and words from the time before seep in. Eventually, she starts writing; about Auster's illness and his last days, about their early days together and their all-consuming love, about decades of a shared life filled with joy and laughter, with books and stories, worries and sorrow. Hustvedt's writing eventually becomes the book Ghost Stories: A Memoir.
Ghost Stories is a personal account of the life of a popular and critically acclaimed author-couple, as well as an exploration of how grief and loss affect us, physiologically and mentally, in dialogue with philosophy, literary history and neuroscience. The grief from losing her husband mingles with the grief and anger over what kind of country the United States is becoming, what is lost, and what is worth fighting for.
Siri Hustvedt is among the most central writers and thinkers in the US. She has written a number of critically acclaimed novels and essay collections, including The Summer without Men, The Blazing World, The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, and A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women.
Writer and journalist Marte Spurkland has also written a personal account of losing her father to cancer, in the critically acclaimed Pappas runer («Dadâs Runes»). She met Hustvedt for a conversation about grief, memory and shared life.
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In A History of Women in 101 Objects, author Annabelle Hirsch shows us how the things around us arenât just objects, but testimonies to a common cultural history and set of values. Hirsch shows how something as simple as a hair clip can betray power structures and how kitchen appliances have defined womenâs role in society. With a playful tone and a political sharpness, A History of Women is a manifesto for womenâs common history that also defies general perceptions of historyâs progress and universal improvements.
Annabelle Hirsch is a German-French journalist, author and translator. A History of Women is her first book and has garnered wide recognition since its publication in German in 2022.
Now, she visits the House of Literature for a lecture on reading cultural histories out of the objects that surrounds us, where everyday objects can be symbols of liberation as well as subjection.
After the lecture, there will be a short conversation led by author, womenâs rights advocate and Director of the House of Literature, Susanne Kaluza. Kaluza has written two additional chapters for A Historyâs Norwegian publication and will meet Hirsch on stage for a short conversation.
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Albanian Lea Ypi has a talent for combining the personal and the political in history, exploring how we are all shaped by the societies and ideologies surrounding us. In her memoir Free. A Child and a Country at the End of History, she skillfully portrays her own childhood during the socialist regime of Enver Hoxha in the latter half of the 20th century, followed by the stateâs collapse and civil war.
Ordinary humans in the midst of history is also the focus in her new book, Indignity: A Life Reimagined. An unknown photopgrah of her grandmother honeymooning in Mussoliniâs Italy pops up on social media, making Ypi question everything she thought she knew about her family. Was her grandmother a Nazi collaborator? Or perhaps a Communist spy?
This is the beginning of a thorough examination of her grandmothers life, one that takes Ypi back to the Ottoman empire, to Greece and then Albania through alternating regimes and occupants.
Lea Ypi is a professor of political theory and philosophy at the London School of Economics. Her book Free was warmly received by both critics and readers, and is so far translated into 30 languages.
Writer and journalist Simen Ekern has published several books about European and Italian politics and history. He joins Ypi for a conversation about ordinary humans in the midst of history.
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The history of the Vikings is usually told from the top down, through powerful characters such as chiefs, commanders and royalty, with raids, looting and war at the centre of the narrative. But what about all the others? What was it like to live a normal life as farmer, a merchant, wife or child?
This is the central question in a recent book by British Eleanor Barraclough, Embers of the Hands. Taking her starting point from archaeological finds in order to tell the story of ordinary peopleâs lives in the Viking Age, she reveals how, beneath the surface, we find stories equally dramatic to the great heroic tales of those on the top.
On stage, she will be joined by her Norwegian colleague Tore Skeie. With books such as his award winning The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons, and the battle for the North Sea Empire, Skeie depicts a both vivid and brutal Viking Age rife with decisive events. Skeieâs approach to history is mainly through the upper class, such as through Saint Olaf or the nobleman Alv Erlingsson.
Skeie and Barraclough write the history of the Viking Age from two different perspectives; from the bottom up and from the top down. What can these two ways of reading history learn from each other?
The conversation was moderated by Carline Tromp, writer, critic and old norse philologist.
The event was part of the Festival of Non-Fiction 2025.
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Arinze Ifeakandu is a literary shooting star from Nigeria, with a characteristic, lyrical prose, who has been advocated by authors such as Damon Galgut og Colm TĂłibĂn. Godâs Children Are Little Broken Things from 2022 is his literary debut, winning him several literary prizes, including the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize. In addition to the short story collection, Ifeakandu has published several shorter pieces of both fiction and non-fiction, and is currently working on his first novel.
This is Ifeakandu's reading list:
* Chinua Achebe
* Peter Abrahams, Mine Boy
* Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers
* NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names
* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
* Toni Morrison
* James Baldwin
* Maya Angelou
* Gbenga Adesina
* I.S. Jones
* Ebenezer Agu
* Logan February, Painted Blue with Salt Water
* Gbenga Adeoba
* Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, The Tiny Things Are Heaviest
* Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
* Chukwuebuka Ibeh, Blessings
* Gbolahan Adeola
* Otosirieze Obi-Young from Open country magazine
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«Everything» has become political â what you eat, what you wear, where you work, what you dream of. Political engagement permeates society, and movements like Occupy Wall Street, the Yellow Vests, and Fridays for Future emerge and create headlines, before disappearing just as quickly. Yet this politicization does not lead to real social change, only to disillusionment and frustration.
This is how Belgian historian Anton JĂ€ger defines our times in his book Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences. JĂ€ger describes how we are caught between continuous politicization and political apathy, where the focus has shifted from institutions to short lived movements and social media.
TorbjĂžrn RĂže Isaksen is the political editor in the business newspaper E24, and he has read JĂ€gerâs book with great interest. In addition to his long experience as an MP and from various ministerial positions in government for the Norwegian conservative party HĂžyre, he is the author of several books, including Ingen tror pĂ„ nĂ„tiden (No one believes in the present) from 2023. He joined JĂ€ger during the Festival of Non-Fiction 2025 for a conversation about our hyperpolitical present, and what to do about it.
The event is part of the Festival of Non-Fiction 2025.
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South African Koleka Putuma is an author, a playwright, an editor, amentor, and she has become a cult figure in the activist poetry community. In a direct style that pulls no punches, she writes about homophobia and transphobia, gender and racism, while each line pulses with compassion and love. Putuma entered the literary world with a bang in 2017, with her debut collection Collective Amnesia, which explores South Africaâs historic racism and its consequences, both institutionally and within the culture. Since then, she has published two more critically acclaimed poetry collections.
This is Putuma's reading list:
* Vuyelwa Maluleke
* Maneo Mohale, Everything Is a Deathly Flower
* Busisiwe Mahlangu, Surviving Loss
* Octavia Butler, The Parable of the Sower
*Arinze Ifeakandu, Godâs Children Are Little Broken Things
* Dâbi.young
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After the second world war, many of the biggest war criminals from Nazi Germany flee to South America in the hope of avoiding penalty. One of them is the SS officer Walter Rauff, who settles in Chile, and ends up with a central role in the bloody regime of Augusto Pinochet. How are these two men, their stories and destinies, connected?
In his loose trilogy about European history, lawyer Philippe Sands takes us through the major developments of international law, from the Holocaust up to our time. Beginning with East West Street, the trilogy combines the historical, judicial and personal in a literary masterpiece about one of humanityâs most commendable ambitions: That the people behind historyâs biggest crimes are held accountable.
Now, Sands concludes his trilogy with 38 Londres Street, about the dictator Augusto Pinochet, the Nazi Walter Rauff and the international legal systemâs long effort to catch up with them.
Philippe Sands is a French British writer and human rights lawyer specializing in international law. He has written several award-winning books, and as a lawyer, he has argued a number of high-profile cases in international courts, including for Mauritius, the Phillipines and recently for Palestineâs self-determination.
Critic and writer Karin Haugen is among those who have followed Sandsâs work and writing over the years. Now, she will join him for a conversation about the dictator, the Nazi, and the long arm of the law.
This conversation took place during the Festival of Norwegian Non-Fiction 2025.
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In the recent memoir of Indian star author and activist Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me, we are given the raw and honest story of Royâs life and childhood with a many faceted mother who was far from easy to live with.
Arundhati Royâs mother Mary took her two small children and left her alcoholic husband, brought her own family to court in order to abolish the discriminatory inheritance laws in her home state, and built a unique school that made her a beloved and almost mythical figure of her community and beyond. Towards Roy and her brother, however, she was volatile, sharp and cruel. Still, Roy insists that this forced her to see the world from different vantage point, turning her into the writer she is today.
The memoir also depicts Royâs own path, leaving home for a world of film, literature and activism, towards a backdrop of Indiaâs growing Hindu nationalist movement, spearheaded by Modi. We witness Royâs incessant fights against this movement, on behalf of the environment, of local communities and minorities.
As in Royâs earlier literature, Mother Mary Comes to Me shows us how the personal and political is intimately linked for all of us. Roy portrays her own path as well as those around her with both warmth and bite, in the precise, inventive, and deeply original language that has become one of her distinctive features.
Arundhati Roy is the author of the Booker prize winning The God of Small Things, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and a number of non-fiction books, including My Seditious Heart, Kashmir: The Case for Freedom og Walking with the Comrades.
At the House of Literature, Roy was joined by poet and writer Athena Farrokhzad, for a conversation about her mother, her childhood, and becoming the writer and activist she is today.
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Poet and writer Ocean Vuong has in just a few years established himself as a leading literary voice of his generation. With his own life as a point of departure â born in Vietnam and grown up in a working-class family in the US â his raw and crystal-clear writing deals with war and trauma, immigration experiences, class, masculinity, sexuality and alienation.
In his latest novel, The Emperor of Gladness, we meet 19-year-old Vietnamese-American Hai, as he is about to end his own life, but he is saved by a chance meeting with an old and senile Lithuanian woman, Grazina, and an eclectic group of co-workers in a run-down fast food restaurant.
In Vuongâs America, the idea that the outsiders of society and the working-class poor can escape poverty through hard work is exposed as a lie. The closest they get to a break from their dead end days are drugs, pills or a breather in the restaurantâs freezer. But through the story of Grazina, Hai and his colleagues, he shows how unexpected friendships and care for those around us can be a respite in all the hopelessness.
Ocean Vuong is the winner of the American Book Award, the Mark Twain Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whiting Award, to name a few. He is known for the award-winning and critically acclaimed titles Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Time Is A Mother and On Earth Weâre Briefly Gorgeous. His poetry is also clearly visible in his novels, vibrating with lyricism and metaphors that say with you after reading.
At the House of Literature, Vuong was joined by the Norwegian poet and editor Priya Bains for a conversation about loss and grief, chosen families and writing about the working-class poor.
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Soukaina Habiballah is from Morocco, and the author of four award-winning poetry collections, a short story collection, a novel and a play, Nini Ya Momo.
This is Soukaina Habiballahâs reading list:
Iman Mersal, Traces of Enayat, (trans. Robin Moger)
How To Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts (trans. Robin Moger)
Abdelfattah Kilito, Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language, (trans. WaĂŻl S. Hassan)
Laila Lalami, The Moorâs Account
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With his seventh novel, Collapse, Ădouard Louis has now completed his celebrated family saga about his own upbringing and family.
Louis writes ruthlessly and skillfully about subjects such as class distinctions, violence, racism, gender, and political power and powerlessness, and his writing has become a point of reference and inspiration for writers across the world. Through the seven novels making up his family saga, he portrays the social structures that are the basis for the violence he experienced as a child, as well as his ambivalence towards his own family and the wider working class. However, he is most ruthless when exposing his own life and flaws.
Louis has two new novels out this year: Collapse and Monique Escapes. In Collapse, Louis explores his older brotherâs decline, one he both feared and came to for safety, and who died, aged 38, after a life of alcoholism, poverty, neglect and self-inflicted violence.
In Monique Escapes, he portrays his motherâs escape from yet another destructive and violent relationship, marked by alcohol and degrading treatment. The novel depicts her struggle to find a way out when she has neither money, an education certificate nor a driverâs license.
In both novels, Louis explores how social and economic structures shapes and limits peopleâs possibilities to create a free life. âThe most political thing I do, is portray that which is invisible,â Louis said last time he visited the House of Literature. He returned now to talk about completing his family saga, his literary ruthlessness and the way ahead. He was joined by writer colleague and critic Erlend Loe, who has followed Louisâs body of work closely.
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En octobre 2022, Annie Ernaux a reçu le prix Nobel de littĂ©rature, en tant que premiĂšre femme française, « pour le courage et l'acuitĂ© clinique avec lesquels elle dĂ©couvre les racines, les Ă©trangetĂ©s et les contraintes collectives de la mĂ©moire personnelle ». Avec des livres comme Les AnnĂ©es, Une femme et L'ĂvĂ©nement, qui font tomber les barriĂšres entre autobiographie, fiction et sociologie, Ernaux a gagnĂ© un large lectorat dans le monde entier, et a agrandi ce qui est considĂ©rĂ© comme un langage littĂ©raire. D'une Ă©criture Ă©conomique et non sentimentale, elle fait Ă©merger des expĂ©riences collectives Ă travers des histoires personnelles, et montre comment la classe, le genre et les structures sociales nous façonnent, et comment des Ă©vĂ©nements apparemment mineurs peuvent changer toute une vie.
Les livres d'Ernaux sont Ă la fois une archĂ©ologie personnelle et une analyse sociologique, et montrent comment ce qui est profondĂ©ment personnel, aussi toujours est politique. La double conscience de classe occupe une place centrale dans son expĂ©rience et son Ćuvre. Elle s'est dĂ©crite comme une « Ă©migrante de classe » ou une « transfuge de classe », quelqu'un qui a quittĂ© le monde de la classe ouvriĂšre sans pour autant trouver complĂštement sa place dans la bourgeoisie.
Cet automne, Ernaux a deux nouvelles publications en norvĂ©gien, toutes deux traduites par Henninge Margrethe Solberg. L'Autre fille est Ă©crite comme une lettre Ă la sĆur qu'elle n'a jamais rencontrĂ©e, un texte sur le manque, la culpabilitĂ© et comment le silence familial peut ĂȘtre aussi formateur que ce qui est effectivement dit. Dans Les Armoires vides, le premier roman d'Ernaux de 1974, s'Ă©tablit la voix implacable et profondĂ©ment existentielle qui devait marquer toute son Ćuvre. Y est racontĂ©e l'histoire d'une jeune femme qui tente de surmonter l'expĂ©rience d'un avortement illĂ©gal, et qui doit dĂ©mĂȘler le passĂ© pour comprendre comment son Ă©ducation a façonnĂ© son identitĂ©.
De retour Ă la Maison de littĂ©rature, Ernaux a rencontrĂ© Kjerstin Aukrust, maĂźtre de confĂ©rences en littĂ©rature française Ă lâUniversitĂ© dâOslo, pour une conversation sur la classe, le travail de mĂ©moire et sur comment l'Ă©criture peut devenir une forme d'archĂ©ologie de sa propre vie.
La conversation a eu lieu dans la Salle des fĂȘtes de l'UniversitĂ© dâOslo.
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«The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single questions, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?» One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad
The lack of a response from the West to Israelâs brutal war in Gaza reveals how the West values certain lives more than others, according to author and journalist Omar El Akkad. For El Akkad, born in Egypt and raised in Qatar, the West long represented the polar opposite to everything he hated about the Middle East: The corruption, the censorship, the surveillance, the exaltation of corrupt leaders.
As a teenager, El Akkad moved with his family to North America, and became a part of the liberal Western world order. Despite a few reservations, he kept his faith in the West as a region committed to human rights, freedom, justice and respect for the law. Until October 8th, 2023, when Israel launched their latest war against Gaza.
The essay collection One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a reckoning with what El Akkad considers to be the Westâs double standards. He exposes rhetoric and euphemisms that allow murder on innocent civilians, that necessitates the new acronym WCNSF (wounded child, no surviving family), and shows how the Gaza war is part of a longer history of us versus them.
Omar El Akkad is an award-winning author and journalist of many years. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is his first non-fiction book, it has garnered broad attention and is under translation into a number of languages.
At the House of Literature, El Akkad was joined by author and journalist Yohan Shanmugaratnam for a conversation about anger, the suffering in Gaza and Western double standards.
The event was supported by NORAD.
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When Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie publishes her first novel in 12 years, it is a real event. With award winning and critically acclaimed titles such as Americanah, Half of a Yellow Sun and We Should All Be Feminists, Adichie has attracted a large readership across the world.
Both in her novels and in her non-fiction, she explores what it means to be a woman and a feminist in the world today, and through her own books as well as the many aspiring writers she mentors and influences, she contributes to a greater diversity of stories and literary voices.
In her new novel, Dream Count, we follow four women who, each in their own way, come up against societal expectations and limits as to what women can do and ask for. Chiamaka spends the pandemic lockdown recounting all her failed relationships, Zikora tries to track down her ex, who left her when she became pregnant, Omelogor starts a blog addressed to men, and the maid Kadiatou tries to carve out a new life for herself and her daughter in the US.
Weaving together their histories, and in close portraits of the four women, Adichie explores female experiences such as societyâs expecations for when you are to marry and have children, darker themes like abortion and female genital mutilation, but also female solidarity and sisterhood.
Since her literary debut in 2003, Chimamanda Adichie has become a literary and feminist icon, and she has introduced African literature to readers across the world.
She has been awarded the Commonwealth Writerâs Prize, the Orange Prize and the US National Book Critics Circle Award, just to mention a few. Her books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
In Oslo, she was joined by journalist and editor Jessika Gedin for a conversation about womenâs experiences, societyâs expectations and the universal need to be loved.
The conversation took place in the University of Osloâs Ceremonial Hall and was supported by NORAD.
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Wole Talabi is a Nigerian science fiction author. He is best known for his short stories, most of them collected in the collections Incomplete Solutions and Convergence Problems. His latest novel Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon won the prestigious Nommo award for best novel. Talabi has also edited the anthologies Africanfuturism and Mothersound, both central publications in African fantasy and science fiction.
This is Talabiâs reading list:
- Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon
- Kojo Laing, Woman of the Aeroplanes
- Lauren Beukes, Zoo City
- Tade Thompson, Rosewater
- Tlotlo Tsamaase, Womb City
- T. L. Huchu, Library of the Dead
He also mentions:
- Ben Okri
- Chinua Achebe
- Wole Soyinka
- Carmen Maria Machado
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Isaac Asimov
- Larry Niven, Ringworld
- Jerry Pournelle
- Cyprian Ekwensi
- Flora Nwapa
- Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots
- Amos Tutuola, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and The Palm-Wine Drinkard
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