For the last five years, The Paris Review has participated in the unusual, if not unlikely, Norwegian-American Literary Festival, a series of readings, interviews, and discussions that celebrate contemporary literature from both countries.
The festival, which originated in Oslo in 2011, has introduced Norwegian audiences to the likes of Donald Antrim, Elif Batuman, Lydia Davis, Sam Lipsyte, and John Jeremiah Sullivan. In New York, the festival has helped spread word of contemporary Norwegian masters, including Karl Ove Knausgaard, Joachim Trier, and Dag Solstad.
Join The New Yorker’s fiction editor Cressida Leyshon leads the discussion “New Norwegian Literature after Knausgaard” with Maja Lunde, Helga Flatland, and Johan Harstad.
Karl Ove Knausgaard leads the discussion “Alternative Worlds” with Katie Kitamura, Christian Kracht, and Cathrine Knudsen, authors whose work he has recently published at Pelikanen, his small publishing house in Norway. Readings by Katie Kitamura, Christian Kracht, and Karl Ove Knausgaard.
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