phOTOs: NIKLAS MAUPOIX & ALEXANDER LAGERGREN
Göteborg Book fair
26–29 september 2013
Publisher:
Maria Källsson
Editorial Team:
Johan Kollén
Annica Starfalk
Henriette Andersson
Anneli Jonasson
Gunilla Sandin
Graphic Design:
Thomas Glans
Omslag:
Anna Wirsén,
Ananas Art
Technical coordinator:
Siv Falk
Graphic production:
Rivista AB
Print:
Elanders, 2013
Address:
Göteborg Book Fair
SE-412 94 Göteborg,
Sweden
Phone:
+46 31-708 84 00
www.goteborg-bookfair.com
Having your say
T
he 2013 Book Fair is shaped by the items presented in this seminar
programme. Behind each item, there is someone with a story to tell
or an opinion to voice.
Each item is important and unique, but taken together they form a
context. At close range they constitute unique tales and expressions, but
together they form a pattern and a motif.
The motif is our current era, coloured by our history and replete with the signs and phenomena of
our times. With wonderful literature, books, as the common denominator.
This year, we focus on Romania – Romania has the floor! Great storytellers and small stories, ­conveying
culture and history and building understanding. In 16 seminars, we hereby give the floor to Romania!
Bangladesh is a country often associated with disasters in Western media. We have invited five poets
– giving you the opportunity to listen to completely different stories.
Altogether 375 seminars are presented in the Göteborg Book Fair's seminar programme. In this
booklet we present the seminars held in languages other than the Scandinavian.
We are proud to present the 2013 Göteborg Book Fair seminar programme.
Photos above:
Illustration, Isol
Norman Manea
Cecilia Samartin
Marius Chivu
Sofi Oksanen
Niel Bushnell
Maria Källsson
Book Fair Director
Gunilla Sandin
Head of Programme
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Göteborg Book fair
september 26–29, 2013
A celebration for book-lovers
Göteborg Book Fair 2012:
99 136
Numbers of visitors
The Göteborg Book Fair affects many more
­ eople than just the exhibitors, guests and
p
­v isitors – the air vibrates with conversations
about books and culture far outside its walls.
Media coverage, with approximately 1. 555 accredited journalists, massive attention from the
press and live reporting, features and news items
on the radio and television, reaches further afield
than the city, even abroad.
When the first Göteborg Book Fair was held
in 1985, there were 5. 000 visitors. Recently, that
figure has been around 100. 000 – a magical
trend for a fair that makes Göteborg the capital
city of books for four days each year.
935
Numbers
of exhibitors
phOTO: ALEXANDER LAGERGREN
Every September, these are two of the most
common questions that book-lovers ask each
other. Publishers, authors, agents, librarians,
teachers, literature enthusiasts and consumers of
arts and culture travel to Göteborg from Sweden,
Scandinavia and the rest of the world. And for
the people of Göteborg, the fair is a sure sign of
autumn.
phOTO: NIKLAS MAUPOIX
G
öteborg Book Fair is an important
event for many people in the book
business, but it is so much more
than this, it is also:
A manifestation of arts and culture. A literary
festival. A celebration of the written word and
freedom of expression. And, not least, a natural
part of the year’s events for ordinary readers.
“You are going to the fair, aren’t you?”
“I’ll see you in Göteborg then?”
phOTOs: NIKLAS MAUPOIX
The fair at the heart of everything
phOTO: NIKLAS MAUPOIX
The fully-integrated hotel, fair and conference facilities, with The Swedish Exhibition &
Congress Centre and Gothia Towers, are part of
Göteborg’s event area, with arenas such as Scandinavium and Ullevi, the Liseberg amusement park,
the Museum of World Culture, Filmstaden Bergakungen cinema context and the Universeum
­Science Discovery Center.
But the area around the fair also has plenty of
restaurants, cafés, bars and hotels, as well as small
parks and other oases.
Trade visits 2012
It is not only Göteborg’s main railway station
that is within walking/tram distance, but also a
great many of the city’s most important arenas for
art and culture: the Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg City Theatre and the Concert Hall on Götaplatsen, the Stora Teatern theatre on Avenyn and
the Göteborg Opera by the Göta älv River.
Whatever visitors to the fair need, finding it is
always more or less the same:
“It’s just around the corner.”
Education
35
Libraries
24
Booksellers/
Publishers
10
Students
6
Media/Photo
5
Other cultural areas 4
3 446
Total Number of
Programme Items
(per cent)
phOTO: NIKLAS MAUPOIX
G
öteborg Book Fair is at the centre of
things, to say the least. It is difficult
to think of a more strategically located site for this annual celebration of
reading and writing.
Authors
4
Grafic industry
3
Churches/Religious 3
Translators
2
Politicians
1
Others
3
1 555
Numbers of accredited
journalists
Göteborg Book fair
phOTO: NIKLAS MAUPOIX
september 26–29, 2013
Focus 2012:
Nordic literature
Main partners:
Nordic Council/
Nordic Council of Ministers
• The official Nordic co­operation
had its 60th Anniversary, the
Nordic Council prestigious
literature prize was awarded
for the fiftieth time, the new
Nordic prize for c­ hildren and
young people’s literature was
announced at the Fair and last
but not least – Nordic was as
cool as it still is! In other words,
the Nordic Council of Ministers
and the Nordic Council had
many good reasons for c­ reating
the Nordic theme 2012.
Every second of hard work
was worthwhile. Besides the
seminars we had 70 activities
in the 135 square meter stand,
and we were amply rewarded.
Audiences flocked to the stand,
national and inter­national
­media reported, and we continue to watch the triumph of
Nordic literature and culture
around the world.
Bodil Tingsby,
Head of Communications
Nordic Council/
Nordic Council of Ministers
A
specific country or linguistic area, a region
or a topical cultural issue – every year, the
­­Göte­borg Book Fair has a specific theme that
pervades the entire fair. The theme for 2013 is
Romanian literature. These annual themes permeate
the fair, entailing a great deal of positive attention not
only for literature but also for the culture of the relevant
countries and linguistic areas.
phOTO: NIKLAS MAUPOIX
A new focus every year
The 2010 theme, African literature, received extra
attention. There were 68 participating authors from
28 countries, as well as 15 African publishers, and the
­G öteborg Book Fair’s broadest theme so far generated measurably increased interest and a large number
of translations into Swedish and other Nordic languages.
– Our aim is that interest in a particular cultural area
will result in more translations – in both directions. Each
theme causes many ripples on the water, says Gunilla
Sandin, Head of Programme for the Göteborg Book Fair.
Naturally, the Nordic region has been well represen-
ted over the years. This has been done by focusing on
individual countries, as well as by using common Nordic
themes, as in 2012.
The Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
have all been the subjects of individual focus, as have
British, Spanish, Polish, Dutch and German literature.
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Subjects such as freedom of speech, children’s literature,
multiculturalism and indigenous peoples have also all
received special attention.
The Book Fair’s partner in the work towards this year’s
theme is the Romanian Cultural Institute.
In 2014 Brazilian literature will be the focal theme.
Focus 2008: Latvia
Partner: Latvian Literature Centre
• The slogan of the Latvian participation at the Göteborg Book
Fair as the focus country in 2008
was “Let us build a bridge across
the wide sea”, t­ aken from the
title of a novel by Latvian writer
Dzintars Sodums. Just a few
months before the economic
recession hit, this very special
event, actually the widest international exposure of Latvian
literature so far, spotlighted
Latvian literature and also Latvian and Swedish cooperation –
close neighbours yet with an expanse of water between them.
Latvian writers are becoming
increasingly popular in Sweden,
in part owing to our participation in the Göteborg Book Fair
over the years – before and after
the impressive showcasing in
2008. Several translations from
Latvian to Swedish have followed since then.
Janis Oga
Director of
Latvian Literature Centre
phOTO: NIKLAS MAUPOIX
”
The 2012 Book Fair turned out to be an extremely fruitful event for one of the IRC
participants, Bonnier Agency Group. After several bidding sessions that attracted a lot of
attention, the company sold the rights to En Man Som Heter Ove by Fredrik Backman to
Cappelen Damm in Norway, ArtPeople/People’s Press in Denmark and to Fischer Krueger
Scherz in Germany. In addition, the Italian publisher Mondadori bought the rights to the
book just after the fair had finished.
Ewa Bråthe,
Focus 2011: Germany, Austria
and Switzerland
Partners: Goethe-Institut Schweden, The
Frankfurt Book Fair, The Austrian Publishers and Booksellers Association, The
Austrian Chamber of Commerce, The
Austrian Foreign Ministry, The Austrian
Ministry of Culture, The Swiss Booksellers
and Publishers Association, The Swiss Arts
Council Pro Helvetia, The German, Austrian
and Swiss Embassies in Sweden
• We very much enjoyed collaborating
with Bok & Bibliotek 2011 and presenting
German-speaking literature at the Book Fair.
The interest in the focal theme was indeed
beyond our expectations. A lot of new literary voices from Austria, Switzerland and
Germany were translated to Swedish and
the Book Fair definitely helped to introduce
and display them. The Swedish publishing
houses were a great support and we established a lot of new and inspiring contacts.
Some of the authors visiting the Book Fair
2011 are about to come out with new translations – exactly what we were hoping for!
In the years 2009–2012 there were 505
translations made from German to Swedish, and in 2011 alone the number of
translations increased 40 per cent.
Stefan Pluschkat,
Goethe-Institute Schweden
International Sales Manager
Aude Pasquier, Norwegian translator, visited the International Rights Centre last year.
phOTO: NIKLAS MAUPOIX
Business among
the crowd at IRC
phOTO: NIKLAS MAUPOIX
T
he International Rights ­Centre,
IRC, is one of Europe’s most
important meeting places
for trading in Nordic literary
Focus 2010: Africa
Partner: The Nordic Africa Institute
• The African theme at the Göteborg Book
Fair 2010 was a great success. About 70
authors and other guests from Africa attended and the theme was featured in over
100 programme events and received widespread publicity in both the Swedish and the
foreign media. 27 books by African authors
were translated into Swedish and presented
at the fair. An estimate is that around 20
titles have been translated in the years to
follow. We can see that African authors are
frequently invited to Sweden and appear
in literary programs on TV, in media, and in
seminars. Many cultural co-operations take
place in exchange with Africa. The Nordic
Africa Institute was very happy with the
Africa theme and felt that the result was a
great success. A prerequisite for the success
was the involvement of so many publishers,
institutes and organisations.
Susanne Linderos,
Communications, Nordic Africa Institute
rights.
At IRC, publishers and literary agents
book meetings to buy and sell rights, get
an idea of the supply of titles and meet
international colleagues with a specific
interest in Nordic literature. At the fair you
will find the industry’s largest representation of publishing companies, agents and
authors from the Nordic region. This unique opportunity to survey the market is
what makes Göteborg Book Fair the foremost venue for trading in Nordic literary
rights.
Established in the late 1990s, the ever
growing IRC has become a significant
• Contact me for more information:
Ewa Bråthe,
International Sales Manager
Phone +46 31 708 84 11
E-mail: eb@goteborg-bookfair.com
You can also find information on our
website:
www.goteborg-bookfair.com
part of the Book Fair. And a highly appreciated part at that.
– The International Rights ­Centre in
Göteborg has a great atmosphere
­­­
and
is a good space for ­meetings – one has
privacy, yet it’s also very ­communal. The
Göteborg Book Fair is also a great celebration of international authors and it’s inspiring to see how well attended the fair
is by the public, says Andy Hine, Foreign
Rights Director at UK-based Little, Brown
Book Group.
Johanna Kinch, literary agent at Bonnier Group Agency, agrees:
– The Göteborg Book Fair is one of the
nicest fairs. It’s vibrant and accessible
and you get to meet not only a lot of
­Scandinavian publishers, but also many
German, Dutch and French publishers.
• Price List
Table: SEK 4 400
(approx €495)
Shelf: SEK 2 000
(approx €225)
Extra shelf: SEK 1 000
(approx €112)
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In Focus
RomaniaN Literature
A
A Bridge
of Books
few years before Romania’s access
to the EU, in 2007, the Romanian
philosopher and essayist Andrei
Pleşu reflected that Romania had
always considered itself a part of
Europe and that we, Romanians, have Europe in
our blood and our spirit, but even in our libraries
and books. However, this community
spirit was not shared by all of our European fellow countries, possibly because of the isolation that Romania
had lived in during almost half a century of communism. There was still a
distance between us that Pleşu suggested could be surmounted with ”a
bridge of books” – a challenge that
stands true to the present day and
which is one of the best ways to get to
know each other in a profound way.
Romanian lite r atur e , in particular, has
long functioned as a prism for Europe and
the E­ uropean experience: many of our writers
Romanian
writers at
Göteborg book fair
• Gabriela Adameşteanu
• Ana Blandiana
• Svetlana Cârstean
• Mircea Cărtărescu
• Marius Chivu
• Daniela Crăsnaru
• Mircea Dinescu
• Cătălin Dorian Florescu
• Dana Grigorcea
• Florina Iliş
• Dan Lungu
• Norman Manea
• Felicia Mihali
• Ioana Nicolaie
• Ioan Es. Pop
• Varujan Vosganian
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live in other countries and even write in other
­languages, some of them returning to their
­R omanian roots, others taking their adoptive
homes as a starting point. This is the case for
several of this year’s guests, among them Cătălin
Dorian Florescu and Dana ­Grigorcea. At the
same time, we wish to show that the literature
written in Romania during the latest
decades has a highly artistic level.
Topic-wise, it can be about ­existential
issues (Mircea Cărtărescu), Romania’s recent history ­(Gabriela
Adameşteanu), the feminine experience (Svetlana Cârstean, Ioana
Nicolaie), documentary ­realism akin
to the widely ­successful Romanian
movie wave (Dan Lungu) or about
the tragic destiny of the Armenian
people (Varujan Vosganian). This is why Romania is represented at this year’s Book Fair in Göteborg by two equally strong s­ ides: literature written in Romanian, in Romania, and exile literature
written by Romanian writers settled in Canada,
Germany, Switzerland and the United States.
It can be safely stated that Romanian literature
is living a boom that can only be compared with
the blooming interwar period, when names such
as E.M. Cioran, Eugène Ionesco, Mircea E­ liade,
­Gherasim Luca, Benjamin Fondane and Tristan
Tzara engraved themselves into the ­history of
world literature. Through the Romanian-­German
Herta Müller, Romania recently received half
of a Nobel prize, and there is already talk of
other R
­ omanian writers, among them ­Mircea
Cărtărescu and Norman Manea, worthy of
the same honour. At the same time, there are
­numerous others, especially among those who
debuted in the nineties, who have been translated into different world languages, from English
and French to Arabic and Hebrew.
Seminars
included in the Romanian focal theme or related to Romania
THursday
● 13.00–13.45
What’s unique about
Romanian literature?
Participants: Mircea Cărtărescu, Norman Manea,
Gabriela Adameşteanu, Marius Chivu
● 14.00–14.45
Fluid world of words – minority
­languages in globalized literature
Participants: Laimantas Jonušys, Florina Ilis,
Dorota Jovanka Ćirlić, Tora Hedin, Pavel
Zajíček, Mícheál Ó Conghaile, Afonso Cruz
● 14.30–14.50
The Romanian photographer
Carol Popp de Szathmari (in Swedish)
Participant: Dan Shafran
That Romanian literature is strong and exciting is thus proven by its presence in many other
languages, but also by Romania’s participation
as the country in focus to the Book Fair in Göteborg and recently even to the book fairs in Paris
and Turin. We see this status as an honour and
an acknowledgement of the strength of our literature, but also as an acknowledgement of
the efforts of the Romanian Cultural Institute of
Stockholm to make its country’s literature known
to a Swedish public. We believe culture to be
Romania’s big chance to conquer the world, with
literature playing a major role in the process.
● 15.00–15.45
The thing about writing
and reading short stories
Participants: Gabriela Adameşteanu,
Daniela Crăsnaru, Dan Lungu
● 16.00–16.45
The Eastward (in Swedish)
Participants: Anders Bodegård,
Sophie Sköld, Jonas Ellerström
Friday
● 11.00–11.45
A past that haunts
Participant: Norman Manea
● 13.00–13.45
Inside a writer’s brain
Participant: Mircea Cărtărescu
Dan Shafran,
Director of The Romanian
Cultural Institute of Stockholm
● 14.00–14.20
Vägen från svenskstuderande
till översättare (in Swedish)
● 15.00–15.45
The writer’s involvement
in the public arena
Participants: Mircea Cărtărescu,
Norman Manea
● 17.00–17.45
Mutter Courage and her daughters
Participants: Angelika Reitzer,
Dana Grigorcea
saturday
● 11.00–11.45
The image of the Roma
in contemporary literature
Participants: Cătălin Dorian Florescu,
Elisabeth Hjorth, Varujan Vosganian,
Dezideriu Gergely
● 13.00–13.45
Armenian destinies
Participant:
Varujan Vosganian
● 14.00–14.45
Is exile an integral part of
Romanian literature?
Participants: Cătălin Dorian Florescu,
Dana Grigorcea, Felicia Mihali
● 15.00–15.45
The heaven in the belly (in Swedish)
Participants: Ioana Nicolaie, Aase Berg
● 17.00–17.20
A postmodern Romanian voice
Participant: Mircea Cărtărescu
Sunday
● 12.00–12.45
The psychology of storytelling
Participant: Cătălin Dorian Florescu
Participants: Björn Apelkvist, Simona Tentea
Photo: Cato Lein
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Thursday
The seminars in this programme are
held in English, unless otherwise noted.
september 26
Illustration: Isol
10.00–10.45 Code To1000.3
What are academic
publications doing in the library?
The conditions for scientific communication are
changing swiftly to meet increasing demands for
reach, impact and free access to research results.
Libraries are turning into 24-7 stores for scientific
products. From their archives, publications can
be fetched for reading and printing at cost price.
What further demands should libraries meet in
terms of market adjustment, quality control and
ranking? A discussion about how scientific libraries are taking on new challenges.
With: Eva Stensköld, the Ministry of Education
and Research, Margo Bargheer, Göttingen University Press, Germany, Guus van den Brekel,
Central Medical Library, Netherlands, Helena
Francke, The Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Patrick Vonderau, Stockholm
University, Wilhelm Widmark, Stockholm University Library.
Moderator: Birgitta Hellmark Lindgren, Stockholm University Library.
Organizer: Swedish Library Association and Stockholm University
Library
11.00–11.45 Code To1100.2
Lennart Frick, Ieva Lešinska, Marie Lundquist
The freedom to ignore power
Latvian poet Imants Ziedonis (1933–2013) was
an innovative virtuoso and a master of the form,
who also wrote multifaceted prose poems. He
enjoyed immense popularity, almost on the level
of a m
­ ovie star, a popularity no less important as
a form of protection against Soviet oppression.
Four volumes of selected poems are available
in Swedish, most recently Epifanier [Epiphanies]
(2013). Lennart Frick, writer, Ziedonis’s Swedish
publisher and the founder of publishing company
Fripress, Ieva Lešinska, Latvian journalist, critic
and translator and Marie Lundquist, Swedish
poet and translator, in a conversation about one
of Latvia’s most significant poets. Moderated by
Juris Kronbergs, poet and translator.
Language: Swedish and English
Organizer: Latvian Literature Centre
12.00–12.45 Code To1200.3
Frans de Waal
Human morality comes from within
Mankind’s morality does not come from any
­higher power – it comes from within. Morals,
compassion, a sense of right and wrong and even
religion have all been around for as long as humans, and are the result of evolution. This according to Frans de Waal, one of the world’s leading
primatologists and selected by Time Magazine as
one of the hundred most influential people of our
time, in his new book The Bonobo and the Atheist.
de Waal is well known for his vivid stories recounting how bonobos and other mammals to a high
degree possess traits we refer to as “human”. Now
he takes a step further, dragging religion down to
earth. Frans de Waal, himself an atheist, emphasises that religion can play a positive role in society
while criticising some in the New Atheist movement for being dogmatic.
Introduction: Sharon Jåma, journalist.
Organizer: Karneval Förlag
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Isol – 2013 winner of The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Illustration from Numeralia.
12.00–12.45 Code To1200.9
12.30–12.50 Code To1230.2
Isol – 2013 winner of
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
You learn more when it’s fun!
Isol
In the words of the jury: “Isol creates picture books
from the eye-level of the child. Her pictures vibrate with energy and explosive emotions. With
a restrained palette and ever-innovative pictorial
solutions, she shifts ingrained perspectives and
pushes the boundaries of the picture book medium. Taking children’s clear view of the world as
her starting point, she addresses their questions
with forceful artistic expression and offers open
answers. With liberating humour and levity, she
also deals with the darker aspects of existence.”
Meet Argentinian picture book artist, illustrator, writer and singer Isol (Marisol Misenta) in a
conversation with jury member and writer Mats
Kempe.
Organizer: Swedish Arts Council, The Astrid Lindgren Memorial
Award (ALMA)
Sharon Ahlquist
What do you do when someone dumps rubbish
in your street? How do you deal with anti-social
neighbours? How do you organize a street party? These are some of the questions faced by a
class of 11–13 year olds working on Storyline, Our
­Sustainable Street. For five weeks they took on the
roles of families who had moved into a newly built
street in the fictitious English town of Danbury.
Working on tasks linked to the syllabus for English, they developed their skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing – and had fun. Sharon
­Ahlquist, senior university lecturer in English,
talks about Storyline, Our Sustainable Street.
Organizer: Studentlitteratur
Photo: ALEXANDER LAGERGEN
Photo: CATO LEIN
Photo: CATO LEIN
Gabriela Adameşteanu
Mircea Cărtărescu
Norman Manea
12.30–12.50 Code To1230.3
13.00–13.45 Code To1300.1
Prison poetry
Books – a medium in transformation
Mircea Cărtărescu, Norman Manea,
Gabriela Adameşteanu, Marius Chivu
”I was a Presidential candidate in Belarus when I
was assaulted by people dressed in black. I ended
up in a hospital, from which I was abducted by
masked men. In the middle of the night. From the
intensive care unit. Naked. From that moment on,
I recall the horror.” Eva Nyaklyayewa talks about
the new collection of poems by her father, Uladzimir Nyaklyayew, with publisher Maria Söderberg
and translator Janina Orlov.
Language: English and Swedish
Books are no longer what they once were – nor
are our conception of them. With the launch of
e-readers and tablets, the borders of the book –
as well as the reading and writing of them – have
been dissolved. Books are now a medium among
many others. The question is what happens with
the physical artefact once it becomes digital?
What is the e-book capable of and what does the
future look like for printed books? An international
panel of literature scholars, media experts, software designers and strategists discuss the digital
transformation of the book as a medium.
With: Alexandra Borg, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and Bonnierförlagen, Adam Hyde, Booksource, Berlin, Jesper Olsson, Linköping University, and Ben Vershbow, The Institute for the
Future of the Book & NYPL, New York.
Moderator: Pelle Snickars, National Library of
Sweden.
Admittedly, Mircea Cărtărescu has little in
common with Norman Manea, while ­Norman
Manea has little in common with ­G abriela
Adameşteanu. And it’s how it should be,
literature’s foremost voices are always unique.
Still, whenever one tries to outline an abstract
picture of Romanian literature through the times,
there are certain notions that always come up,
such as the avant-garde, black humour or exile.
It is t­herefore worth discussing whether Romanian literature, history or society have seen any
­undercurrents that have contributed to the actual
shape of Cărtărescu’s, Manea’s or Adameşteanu’s
­writings. Contributing to the talk: Marius Chivu,
one of Romania’s most influential literary critics
and an author in his own right.
Moderator: Jonas Ellerström,
Swedish publisher.
Eva Nyaklyayewa, Maria Söderberg, Janina Orlov
Organizer: Ellips and Litteraturresan/Belarus [Belarusian Literary
Journey]
Alexandra Borg, Adam Hyde, Jesper Olsson, Ben Vershbow
Organizer: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, National Library of Sweden and Bonnierförlagen
13.00–13.45 Code To1300.6
What’s unique about Romanian literature?
Organizer: The Romanian Cultural Institute
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The seminars in this programme are
held in English, unless otherwise noted.
Photo: PRIVATE
Photo: PRIVATE
september 26
Photo: NANY ELLISON
Thursday
Simon Bartram
Niel Bushnell
Michael Kaiser
14.00–14.45 Code To1400.2
14.00–14.45 Code To1400.7
15.00–15.45 Code To1500.9
Simon Bartram, Niel Bushnell
Awardwinning authors
from northern England
Children’s authors Simon Bartram and Niel
Bushnell, live and work in the North East of England. Simon Bartram is an award-winning author
and illustrator; his successful picture books include Dougal’s Deep-Sea Diary and Man on the
Moon, which won the prestigious Blue Peter Book
of the Year Award. Bob and Barry’s Lunar Adventures is Simon’s latest series for young readers. Niel
Bushnell began his career working as a comic
artist before moving into animation on feature
films and for computer games. Niel’s debut fantasy adventure novel, Sorrowline, won a Northern
Writers Award in 2011. The award helped secure
a two-book publishing deal with Andersen Press
for Sorrowline and its sequel, Timesmith. The two
authors will discuss their work and careers with
Swedish journalist Lotta Olsson.
Organizer: New Writing North/Durham Book Festival
14.00–14.45 Code To1400.4
Nanoy Rafael, Sergio Bumatay III
Oh, ooh, oooooh!
Winner of this year’s Peter Pan award.
Filipino picture book Naku, nakuu, nakuuu! (meaning roughly Oh, ooh, oooooh!), winner of this
year’s Peter Pan award, represents a part of the
world rarely found in the children’s section in Swedish book stores. Writer Nanoy Rafael, who has
devoted his time to teaching children read and
write poetry through an association ­called LIRA,
and internationally renowned illustrator ­Sergio
Bumatay III in a conversation with Swedish w
­ riter
Mats Kempe about the universal theme of the
book – getting a sibling. Every year, IBBY Sverige
(the Swedish section of the International Board
on Books for Young People), confers the ­Peter Pan
award for the best translated book from a culture,
country or language rarely represented in Sweden, or a book that introduces a writer unknown
or less known in Sweden.
Organizer: IBBY
Fluid world of words – minority
languages in globalized literature
Translation and translators have a key role to play in
safeguarding and promoting linguistic and cultural
diversity especially in minority languages. Writers
and translators from Czech Republic, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Romania will discuss the
role of minority languages in the concept of cultural
identity and the effects of globalization on translations. The writers will share their unique experience
of writing in minority languages and will debate the
importance of translations into other languages.
Participants: translator Laimantas Jonušys (Lithuania), writer Florina Ilis (Romania), translator Dorota
Jovanka Ćirlić (Poland), translator Tora Hedin (Sweden), writer Pavel Zajíček (Czech Republic), writer
Mícheál Ó Conghaile (Ireland), writer Afonso Cruz
(Portugal).
Moderator: Gunnar Bolin, Culture Correspondent,
Swedish Radio.
Organizer: International Cultural Programme Centre in Lithuania, Romanian Cultural Institute, Czech Centres, Dublin
Unesco City of Literature, British Council in Portugal, WrocławEuropean Capital of Culture 2016/ European Literature Nights project
15.00–15.45 Code To1500.7
Michael Kaiser
Secretary of Culture and corporate healer
”In today’s financial situation, we Americans may
have something to offer Europe,” says Michael
Kaiser, CEO of John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. He has been dubbed America’s Secretary of Culture – even though
such a position doesn’t exist. You also keep hearing the epithet “The Turnaround King”. In plain
English, Kaiser is a wizard at getting private funding for highbrow culture: he has practically made
Kennedy Center the national stadium for the fine
arts and saved The Royal Opera House in Covent
Garden from financial ruin and looming fiasco by
raising 100 million dollars in 18 months. But Kaiser
is controversial, especially in France where they
find his brazen fondness for using private funding
for culture unpalatable. Michael Kaiser, whose
courses in Arts management are available in 70
countries, is here to share his experiences.
Introduction by Bodil Tingsby, Head of Communication at the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Organizer: The Nordic Council of Ministers/The Nordic Council
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Gabriela Adameşteanu, Daniela Crăsnaru, Dan Lungu
The thing about writing
and reading short stories
The New York Times recently proclaimed the short
story to be the ideal literary genre for the new digital world. Short stories have a tradition going
back to the Ancient Greeks and to this day they
continue to engage many prose writers. Some of
them, like Hemingway, Carver, Borges or Munro,
have specialized in the short format and turned
it into a fine art. But what is so special about short
stories apart from the format and how does the
format shape the content? The topic is discussed
by Gabriela Adameşteanu, Daniela Crăsnaru and
Dan Lungu, who have all contributed to the Romanian short story anthology Skräpliv [Trash Life],
first published in Swedish (2013).
Moderator: Jens Liljestrand, author och literary
critic.
Organizer: The Romanian Cultural Institute and 2244
16.00–16.45 Code To1600.4
Marlene Streeruwitz
Is there such a thing as
a literary language?
In her literary work, Austrian writer Marlene Streeruwitz discusses the role of the individual in the
public sphere, addressing themes as diverse as
her country’s attitude towards contemporary Nazi
terrorism and how to survive as a feminist. By a
deliberate use of language, she has created her
very own aesthetic form and a platform for the
subject: her heroines often have names resembling her own in order to highlight the absurdity in
the reader’s attitude towards biographical matter,
especially when it comes to female authors. Meet
award-winning writer and playwright Marlene
Streeruwitz, one of Austria’s most radical voices,
in a conversation with Swedish culture journalist
Yvonne Ihmels about how to survive as a feminist.
Organizer: The Embassy of Austria and culture magazine Cora
FRiDAY
september 28
Frans de Waal, Lone Frank
Are we prisoners of biology?
How natural science turns our
self-image upside down
Frans de Waal
Lone Frank
Photo: DANIEL ABAD
The bonobo is an ape that resembles you – if you
have an innate sense of right and wrong and prefer to settle disputes in a peaceful manner. Studies
of this peace-loving animal form the basis for the
groundbreaking work of primatologist Frans de
Waal, which has convinced many that em­pathy,
morals and a conscience are biologically determined traits, not specifically human constructs. In
his new book, The Bonobo and the Atheist, de Waal
discusses the possibility of an evolutionary basis
for religion as well. In her latest book, science journalist Lone Frank focuses on the very source of
inherited behaviour – the brain. In Mindfield, she
takes a look at both the latest cerebral discoveries
and how an increasingly thorough schematic of
this complex organ affects our self-perception.
Journalist Sharon Jåma helms this conversation
about the significance of biology and whether
there is a natural explanation for everything.
Photo: ROBIN SKJÖLDBORG
Photo: STEFAN TELL
10.00–10.45 Code Fr1000.3
Organizer: Karneval Förlag and Fri Tanke Förlag
11.00–11.45 Code Fr1100.11
Norman Manea, Agneta Pleijel
A past that haunts
The acclaimed Romanian writer Norman Manea
returns to Göteborg with his latest book, The Lair, a
novel examining the Romanian literary diaspora in
the US and the skeletons still inhabiting different
writers’ closets long after they have turned from
East European refugees into respected American
citizens. We encounter a world famous professor
of religions with right-wing extremist sympathies,
his best apprentice who gets mysteriously murdered in a public toilet, as well as several lifelong
friends whose destinies keep intersecting on several continents.
Partner in conversation: Agneta Pleijel, Swedish
writer.
Organizer: The Romanian Cultural Institute and 2244
13.00–13.45 Code Fr1300.5
Mircea Cărtărescu, Sara Danius
Héctor Abad Faciolince
Inside a writer’s brain
Several literary critics have stated that Mircea
Cărtărescu’s books give them the “pleasurable”
feeling of stepping into a writer’s brain. A brain
populated by mythological, hallucinatory beings
and fantastic symbols such as butterflies, dazzling
light, labyrinths, endless carpets and ­doors leading
into other time dimensions. Mircea Cărtărescu
talks with Swedish writer Sara ­Danius about a
body of work that has been described as “majestic” and “grandiose”, “an intoxicating reading
experience” and “a flow with a magnetic quality
to it”.
Organizer: The Romanian Cultural Institute
14.00–14.45 Code Fr1400.8
14.00–14.45 Code Fr1400.11
Colombia beyond magic realism
Bengali poetry from
Rabindranath Tagore till today
Héctor Abad Faciolince
Colombian Héctor Abad Faciolince is one of the
most prominent writers of the generation following the wave of magic realism and iconic Latin
Americans such as García Márquez, Borges and
­Allende. In 1987 Abad Faciolince was forced to flee
when his father, a famous medical doctor and academic who fought against oppression and social
inequality in Colombia, was brutally murdered.
Twenty years later this trauma became the subject
of one of his most famous and acclaimed novels,
Oblivion: A Memoir. Héctor Abad Faciolinces has
also worked as a journalist and translator. Several
of his novels have been translated into English
and many other languages. Here in a conversation
about his writing with Joan M. Álvarez Valencia,
director of Insituto Cervantes in Stockholm.
The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He was
the first writer from outside the European continent to receive this honour. This year we want
to celebrate the 100-years’ anniversary for this
event. Joining us in this celebrations are the Bengali ­p oets Nirmalendu Goon, Ruby Rahman,
Muhammad Samad and Anisur Rahman who
will join in a dialogue with Swedish poets Lars
Häger and Magnus Dahlerus. Their dialogue will
highlight the influence of Tagore and post Tagore
Bengali poetry and even look into contemporary
poetry trends in Bangladesh.
Moderator: Ola Larsmo, president Swedish PEN.
Organizer: Litteraturcentrum Uppsala, Networkers South North,
Voksenåsen-Oslo and Studiefrämjandet in Uppsala County
Organizer: The Embassy of Colombia
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FRiDAY
The seminars in this programme are
held in English, unless otherwise noted.
september 28
Photo: HISTORISKA MEDIA
15.00–15.45 Code Fr1500.5
Mircea Cărtărescu, Norman Manea
The writer’s involvement
in the public arena
When a society has problems, it is most often writers who throw themselves into the public arena,
fighting for the common good. Such involvement
may threaten to overshadow one’s writings and
expose the writer to everything from public hate
to physical danger, especially in autocratic states.
As a result, certain writers refuse to take on a public role, arguing that they have a right to their
ivory tower just like every other citizen. Others are
of the opinion that writers have a responsibility to
be involved in society life, at any price. The theme
is discussed by Mircea Cărtărescu and Norman
Manea, who have themselves experienced most
implications of their civic involvement.
Moderator: Björn Wiman, cultural editor at ­Swedish
newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
Organizer: The Romanian Cultural Institute
Courage and the love of truth
Last year, Syrian novelist and journalist Samar
Yazbek won the Tucholsky award from Swedish
PEN for her reports from the Syrian uprising –
“writings characterised by courage and the love
of truth, grounded in a defence of the dignity of
those individual citizens who are caught in the
middle of the conflict”. Yazbek is one of Syria’s
most important voices in the struggle for human
rights. She was forced to leave the country in 2011
after having being arrested by security forces, and
today she is living in exile in Paris. Cinnamon is
her first novel to be translated into Swedish (as En
mörk strimma av ljus). Samar Yazbek in a conversation with Cecilia Uddén, Middle East reporter for
Swedish Radio, about her book and the horrible
situation in her native country.
Language: Swedish and Arabic with Swedish
­interpretation.
Organizer: Ordfront
Orlando Figes
Life in the Gulag
In 1946, after five years’ imprisonment, first in
German labour camps and later in the Gulag, Lev
Mishchenko receives an unexpected letter from
his beloved Sveta. Over the following eight years,
they miraculously manage to exchange more
than 1.200 emotionally charged letters. British
historian Orlando Figes struck upon a unique find
when he came across the couple’s letters in a Russian archive. In his celebrated book, Just Send Me
Word, their Gulag-era correspondence presents us
with a rare glimpse into prison life. Orlando Figes,
whose work includes the critically acclaimed The
Whisperers (2009), tells a story of boundless love
and the will to survive during horrible conditions.
16.00–16.20 Code Fr1600.9
Caitlin Moran
The world according to Caitlin Moran
With How to be a woman, she won the hearts of
her readers with a straight-forward and humorous
feminist manifest. In the new book, Moranthology,
Caitlin Moran aims her gaze at the rest of the
world in a series of funny and incisive analyses. A
conversation with publisher Martin Kaunitz.
Organizer: Albert Bonniers Förlag
17.00–17.20 Code Fr1700.6
Cecilia Samartin
Love, alienation and human rights
The best-selling Cuban-American writer Cecilia
Samartin talks about her new novel La Peregrina.
She also describes working as a psychotherapist
and working for human rights in Cuba and among
the poor in today’s Los Angeles.
Organizer: Historiska Media
15.00–15.20 Code Fr1500.8
Patricio Ferrari
Fernando Pessoa’s infinite
literary universe
Samar Yazbek
Orlando Figes
Photo: MANAF AZZAM
15.00–15.45 Code Fr1500.6
16.00–16.45 Code Fr1600.1
Organizer: Bazar Förlag
Samar Yazbek
Photo: JOHN ANDRESEN
Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa published
very little in his lifetime, but left numerous manu­
scripts behind. Literature scholar Patricio Ferrari
presents some of Pessoa’s last published works as
well as some hitherto unpublished material.
Organizer: The Embassy of Portugal, Instituto Camões
17.00–17.45 Code Fr1700.8
Angelika Reitzer, Dana Grigorcea
Mutter Courage and her daughters
Female life stories in contemporary
German-language literature
Austrian writer Angelika Reitzer’s new book Unter
uns [Among us] revolves around a young woman
looking for her place in the world after the dissolution of her family. Baba Rada, by Swiss-Romanian
writer Dana Grigorcea, is about a modern-life
Mutter Courage and her family on the outskirts of
society in post-Ceauşescu Romania. Both books are
fiercely critical of society, turning established patterns of life on their heads through their intimate
portraits of female characters. Angelika Reitzer and
Dana Grigorcea in a conversation about the literary
depiction of the shifting conditions confronting
women in contemporary Europe.
Moderator: Irina Hron-Öberg, German and Literature instructor at Stockholm University.
Language: German
Organizer: The Embassy of Switzerland, Pro Helvetia and The
Embassy of Austria
Cecilia Samartin
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Saturday
september 28
Photo: CLAES HERRLANDER
10.00–10.45 Code Lö1000.1
Liliane Korb, Laurence Lefèvre
Sisters in crime
The phrase “fin du siècle Paris” is sure to evoke
shimmering images of cabarets, elegant salons
and elaborate art nouveau architecture, accompanied by the music of Debussy and the scent of
absinth. That there was a seamy side as well is evident in the works of Liliane Korb and Laurence
Lefèvre, two French sisters who write detective
stories under the shared pseudonym of Claude
Izner. The Assassin in the Marais is their fourth novel about bookseller Victor Legris. The two sisters,
themselves once Seine-side book mongers, have
– among other things – received the prestigious
Michel Lebrun award for Best French detective
story.
Moderator: Maria Neij, Swedish journalist
A leading literary voice in Portugal
A conversation between Ana Luísa Amaral and
publisher Marianne Sandels about the writer’s
life and work. A unique opportunity to listen
to one of the most influential literary voices in
today’s Portugal.
12.00–12.45 Code Lö1200.9
Hanaa al-Ramli
My book is your book
Reading to stay alive
11.00–11.45 Code Lö1100.2
Hanaa al-Ramli
Photo: CATO LEIN
The image of the Roma
in contemporary literature
Roma are undeniably one of the world’s most exposed peoples: constantly persecuted, banished
from large parts of Europe already during the 16th
century, enslaved in others, decimated under Nazi
rule, excluded from society under communist
times, exploited by criminal organizations in the
new, open Europe. In literature, Roma are often
described as struggling people on the outskirts of
society, but also as colorful personalities deeply
intimate with nature’s ancient laws. The topic of
how Roma live on in contemporary literature is
discussed by Cătălin Dorian Florescu, Elisabeth
Hjorth and Varujan Vosganian, who have written about Roma in their latest books, Dezideriu
Gergely, executive director of the European
Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) in Budapest, and KlasGöran Karlsson, writer and historian.
Jordanian children’s rights champion Hanaa alRamli’s passion for books spurred her to use social media to spread her idea about creating libraries in refugee camps around the Middle East, by
collecting books from private donors. The project
also includes activities aimed at encouraging and
motivating children to visit the library and to read.
The initiative, formed in a Palestine refugee camp
in Jordan in 2009, has now spread across the Arab
world. In three years 25 libraries, each comprising
3.000 books, have been constructed in refugee
camps and other underdeveloped areas. Hanaa
al-Ramli in a conversation with Kattis Ahlström,
Secretary-General of BRIS (Children’s Rights in
­Society).
Organizer: Diakonia, Save the Children, Swedish study association Bilda, Behold Man/The Church of Sweden and Postkodlotteriet
13.00–13.45 Code Lö1300.1
David Safier
German humour
– about being reborn as an ant
Organizer: The Romanian Cultural Institute, Norstedts,
The Swiss Embassy and Pro Helvetia
11.00–11.45 Code Lö1100.4
Ana Luísa Amara, Marianne Sandels
Organizer: The Embassy of Portugal, Instituto Camões
Organizer: Kabusa Böcker
Cătălin Dorian Florescu, Elisabeth Hjorth,
Varujan Vosganian,Dezideriu Gergely,
11.00–11.20 Code Lö1100.10
Varujan Vosganian
Photo: Erwin Elsner
Richard Ford
The mysterious forces that drive mankind
In spite of suffering from dyslexia, American writer Richard Ford decided to study literature. He
never regarded his reading and writing difficulties as a handicap. “Being forced to read slowly
has only made my relationship to language more
profound.” In 1996, Ford was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for his novel Independence
Day. His latest novel, Canada, recently translated
into Swedish, is a story about mankind’s darkest,
most powerful and most enigmatic driving forces.
The writer transports us to 1950s America where
the Parsons – a married couple – commit a bank
robbery in Montana, setting the stage for a winding journey for the family. Meet Richard Ford in a
conversation about his latest novel and his writing
career with literature critic Ingrid Elam.
David Safier’s funny, but fundamentally serious,
book Bad Karma is about a successful TV celebrity
named Kim Lange. She dies when a sink from a
Russian space station falls on her head and she
awakes in an ant-hill, sporting six legs. She realises that this is the price she has to pay for all the
bad karma she has accumulated. Bad Karma is the
debut novel from the award-winning German
script-writer David Safier, with domestic sales
figures upwards of 1.5 million copies. He has initiated the foundation Gutes Karma Stiftung, which
supports school projects worldwide. Meet Safier
in a conversation with Swedish journalist Lotta
Olsson about his writing and about constantly
being asked whether Germans really have a sense
of humour.
Organizer: Bazar Förlag
Organizer: Brombergs Bokförlag
Richard Ford
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Saturday
september 28
The seminars in this programme are
held in English, unless otherwise noted.
13.00–13.45 Code Lö1300.8
14.00–14.45 Code Lö1400.5
15.00–15.45 Code Lö1500.3
Armenian destinies
Living literature
and contemporary Bangladesh
Ordinary people and the meaning of life
Varujan Vosganian
Very little is known about the Armenian Genocide,
despite it being one of the worst catastrophies
of the 20th century, counting a death toll of at
least a million and innumerable refugees. V
­ arujan
Vosganian’s celebrated Cartea şoaptelor [The Book
of Whispers] has captured Armenian voices scattered all over the world – from the author’s own
family, stranded in Eastern Romania, in yet another dictatorship, to those who sought refuge in
South America or those who believed in communist propaganda and settled in Soviet Armenia.
Varujan Vosganian discusses with Ola Larsmo,
president of the Swedish PEN, about Armenia’s
forgotten dead, but also about the survivors and
how they managed to transplant their ancient traditions to foreign soils.
Organizer: The Romanian Cultural Institute and 2244
14.00–14.45 Code Lö1400.2
Caitlin Moran
Dickens with tits
With How to be a woman, she won the hearts of
the readers with her straight-forward and humorous feminist manifest. In the new book,
­Moranthology, Caitlin Moran takes on the rest of
the world: Downton Abbey, Prime ministers, panic
attacks, Rolling Stones, caffein, careers and Sherlock Holmes. And a bit about the downfall of the
welfare state and the closing down of UK libraries.
Caitlin Moran has dubbed herself a “shit Dickens
or Orwell, but with tits”. Swedish journalist Jan
Gradvall meets the British columnist and writer in
a conversation about life, writing and what ­really
happened that time she got told off by Prime
­minister David Cameron at a garden party.
Bangladesh is a highly productive literary country.
In spite of political crises and economic hardship,
the country experiences the production of hundreds of literary magazines annually, by professionals and amateurs alike, as well as publications of
thousands of books of creative literature. Newspapers present volumes of literary supplements
every weekend. Thousands attend poetry festivals
from morning till midnight. Month-long book fairs
draw crowds all day long. People buy books after
queuing for hours. Readers buy thick volumes of
literary supplements to mark religious, national
or cultural occasions. Bangladesh introduced a
month-long book fair in the capital Dhaka in the
1970s to commemorate the Mother Language
Movement of 1952. All this spectacularly exciting,
growing and living literary heritage, however,
are overlooked by the international media when
they narrow their attention to news about political crises, floods and cyclones. The Bengali poets
Nirmalendu Goon, Ruby Rahman, Muhammad
Samad, Anisur Rahman and Mrittika Goon
will share their experiences with their Nordic colleague Arne Ruth (Sweden) Kristian Carlsson
(Sweden).
Moderator: John Y. Jones, head of the Dag Hammarskjöld Program at Voksenåsen-Oslo.
Organizer: Litteraturcentrum Uppsala, Networkers South North,
Voksenåsen-Oslo and Studiefrämjandet in Uppsala County
Organizer: Albert Bonniers Förlag
Cecilia Samartin
In her novels, Cuban-born, best-selling writer
­Cecilia Samartin weaves tales of magic, inspired by her own family and her work as a psycho­
therapist and social worker among people from
Mexico, South America and Central America. “My
characters are often ordinary people pondering
big questions about the meaning of life, who
they are and where they are going. They embrace
the mystery.” Her latest novel, La Peregrina, is the
second part of a trilogy about Jamila and Señor
Peregrino. Three of her previous books have been
translated into Swedish. Cecilia Samartin, who lives outside Los Angeles, talks about her life and
writing. In a conversation with Swedish journalist
Jenny Strömstedt, she describes the importance
of having a close relationship with one’s readers.
Organizer: Bazar Förlag
15.00–15.45 Code Lö1500.6
Ioana Nicolaie, Aase Berg
The heaven in the belly
Ioana Nicolaie’s Cerul din burtă [The Heaven in the
Belly] is a poetic diary of a 25 year old woman’s first
pregnancy. Using boldly wilful images, the author associates body changes and the baby’s growth with
memories from her own childhood and pregnancy
experiences voiced by other women. Due to its style
and its topic, Cerul din burtă was a literary happening
when it came out in Romania. Nicolaie talks with
Aase Berg, the first volume of whose celebrated maternity trilogy, Transfer fat, describes a pregnancy from
the point of view of the fetus, in whose life the animal
and the human blend into a symbiosis.
Moderator: Madeleine Grive, editor of 10TAL magazine.
Language: Swedish and Romanian with Swedish
interpretation.
Organizer: The Romanian Cultural Institute and 10TAL Bok
14.00–14.45 Code Lö1400.3
Cătălin Dorian Florescu, Dana Grigorcea, Felicia Mihali
Is exile an integral
part of Romanian literature?
How many know that Paul Celan, E. M. Cioran,
­Eugène Ionesco, Herta Müller and Tristan Tzara
were born in Romania? And what difference
does it make if they were? What does one take
along to a new country and a new language? Has
­Romanian literature a right to lay claim to those
who have moved away? And is exile literature an
inseparable part of Romanian literature in particular? The topic is discussed by three young and
successful exile writers originating from Romania:
Cătălin Dorian Florescu, author of the acclaimed
Jacob beschliesst zu lieben [Jacob decides to love]
(settled in Switzerland), Dana Grigorcea (settled
in Switzerland) and Felicia Mihali (settled in Canada).
Moderator: Jonas Ellerström, Swedish publisher.
Organizer: The Swiss Embassy, Pro Helvetia, AIEQ (Association
Internationalie des Études Québécoises), FLF/AEF (French
teachers’ association in Sweden) and The Romanian Cultural
Institute
Caitlin Moran
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16.00–16.45 Code Lö1600.5
Sofi Oksanen
Surviving between the superpowers
How did the Estonians survive? After her international breakthrough with Purge, Finnish writer
Sofi Oksanen adds a new volume to her quartet
about the history of Estonia with When the Doves
Disappeared. There she portrays an Estonia that
has spent the entire 20th century in the shadow of
Germany and Western Europe and then the Soviet
Union. In following Roland, a resistance fighter, his
cousin Edgar and his wife Juudit, who falls in love
with a German officer, Sofi captures a country and
an era when it was necessary to lead two p
­ arallel
lives – the official one, and another one in the
­safety of your home. In 2013, Sofi Oksanen was
awarded the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize. Meet
her in a conversation with Athena Farrokhzad,
poet, literature critic and teacher at Biskops Arnö.
Organizer: Albert Bonniers Förlag
17.00–17.20 Code Lö1700.4
Mircea Cărtărescu
A postmodern Romanian voice
Mircea Cărtărescu is one of Romania’s leading
poets, essayists and novelists, a number of whose
books have been translated into Swedish. Travesti
[Travesty] is a taut, short novel about memories,
hallucinations and dreams. Meet him in a conversation with publisher Gunnar Nirstedt.
Photo: Knut Koivisto
Photo: Gareth Iwan Jones
Organizer: Albert Bonniers Förlag
Muhammad Samad, Nirmalendu Goon, Ruby Rahman, Mrittika Goon and Anisur Rahman.
Voices from Bangladesh
most prominent
writers will visit Göteborg Book Fair to talk
about a country where newspapers present volumes of literary supplements every
weekend and month-long book fairs draw
crowds all day long.
The Bengali speaking writers N
­ irmalendu
Goon, Ruby Rahman, Muhammad Samad,
Mrittika Goon and Anisur Rahman will
participate in two seminars and other
events at the fair.
The first seminar (Friday 14.00–14.45)
will highlight the influence of the Bengali
poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) and
­post-Tagore Bengali poetry and look into
contemporary poetry trends in Bangladesh. As the first writer from outside the
European continent Tagore won the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1913. This year is the
Five of Bangladesh's
100-years' anniversary for this event.
The second seminar (Saturday 14.00–
14.45) focuses on Bangladesh as a highly
productive literary country. In spite of political crises and economic hardship, the
country experiences the production of
hundreds of literary magazines annually as
well as publications of thousands of books
of creative literature. All this spectacularly
exciting, growing and living literary heritage, however, are overlooked by the international media when they narrow their
attention to news about political crises,
floods and cyclones.
Voices from Bangladesh is a cooperation
between Göteborg Book Fair, Litteraturcentr­
um Uppsala, Networkers South North, Dag
Hammarskjöldprogrammet Voksenåsen
and Studiefrämjandet in Uppsala County.
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Sunday
The seminars in this programme are
held in English, unless otherwise noted.
Photo: TONI HÄRKONEN
Photo: SEBASTIAN SCHMIDT
september 29
Photo: PRIVATE
David Safier
Cătălin Dorian Florescu
Sofi Oksanen
12.00–12.45 Code Sö1200.4
12.30–12.50 Code Sö1230.3
13.30–13.50 Code Sö1330.2
The psychology of storytelling
Bad Karma
The Estonia novels
Romanian-Swiss Cătălin Dorian Florescu is considered one of the foremost German-speaking
authors of today. In his vivid family chronicle ­Jacob
beschliesst zu lieben [Jacob decides to love], the
psychology trained writer skilfully blends a chunk
of Romanian and European history into the main
character’s dramatic experiences during the first
half of the 20th century. A central theme in the
book is the capacity of the human being to survive
under extremely harsh conditions without losing
one’s reason and hope. What is the significance of
earlier generations’ experience in this context? Can
love conquer all?
Moderator: Klas-Göran Karlsson, writer and historian.
About accumulating good karma with your first
novel David Safier, one of Germany’s best-selling
novelists, presents his humorous novel Bad Karma,
explaining why he created the Gutes Karma foundation using the proceeds from the book.
With Purge, Finnish writer Sofi Oksanen saw
her international breakthrough. When the Doves
­Disappeared is the third part in her grand tale of
the history of Estonia and their daily struggle for
survival, wedged in between the superpowers. In
2013, Sofi Oksanen was awarded the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize. Meet her in a conversation with
translator and interpreter Janina Orlov.
Cătălin Dorian Florescu
Organizer: The Swiss Embassy, Pro Helvetia, The Romanian Cultural Institute and 2244
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David Safier
Organizer: Bazar Förlag
Sofi Oksanen
Organizer: Albert Bonniers Förlag
participants
Göteborg Book fair 2013
In red, participants in seminars held in languages other than the
Scandinavian. Altogether 375 seminars and 724 participants.
A
Aagaard, Harriet
To1200.10
Abad Faciolince, Héctor
Fr1400.8
Acchiardo, Maria-Paz
To1500.3
Adameşteanu, Gabriela To1300.6, To1500.9
Adbåge, Lisen
To1500.6
Adelsohn, Ulf
Sö1100.8
Agebäck, Ann Katrin
To1030.2
Agnsäter, Håkan
Lö1530.1
Ahlbom, Jens
Fr1500.3
Ahlgren, Kjell
Fr0945.1
Ahlquist, Sharon
To1230.2
Ahlström, Kattis
To1300.8, Lö1200.9,
Sö1300.1
Ahrnstedt, Simona
Sö1200.8
al-Ramli, Hanaa
Lö1200.9
Alkarp, Magnus
To1400.1
Allén, Sture
Sö1100.7
Almqvist Tangen, Gerd
To1530.1
Alsbjer, Peter
To1000.4
Altrov Berg, Linda
Fr1000.1
Álvarez Valencia, Joan M.
Fr1400.8
Alvtegen, Karin
Lö1300.6
Amaral, Ana Luísa
Lö1100.10
Andersson, Christina
Sö1200.1
Andersson, Lars-Gunnar
Sö1300.4
Andersson, Lena
Fr1300.2, Fr1600.7,
Lö1030.2
Andersson, Pelle
To1700.2
Andréasson, Ola
Sö1100.1
Angerborn, Ingelin
To1200.5
Angsell, Marie
To1300.8
Apelkvist, Björn
Fr1400.5
Aquilonius, Charlotte
Lö1300.3
Ardelius, Gunnar
To1100.1, To1300.2
Arnald, Jan
To1600.9, Fr1000.1,
Lö1200.7
Arnborg, Beata
To1100.4
Arnstad, Henrik
To1100.1, To1330.1
Arping, Åsa
To1100.7
Arrhenius, Lars
Fr1200.5
Askergren, Petter Alexis
Fr1300.4
Askestad, Einar
To1600.9
Asplund, Mia
Lö1000.6
Atterling, Helene
Lö1530.4
Augustsson, Marie
To1130.3, To1300.9,
To1530.2, Fr1300.8, Fr1700.2
B
Bakhtiari, Marjaneh
Lö1430.1
Bargheer, Margo
To1000.3
Barker, Daniel
To1500.1
Bartram, Simon
To1400.2
Batal, Camilla
Fr0945.1
Baumgarten-Lindberg,
Lö1400.8
Marianne von
Beckman, Åsa
Fr1000.9, Lö1100.8
Beischer, Sara
Fr1700.7
Bengtsson, Elin
To1600.5
Berg, Aase
Lö1500.6
Berg, Mattias
Lö1000.9
Berggren, Anna
To1400.3
Berggren, Mats
To1000.4, To1430.4
Bergh, Magnus
To1400.9, Sö1030.1
Bergman, Erika
Fr1000.6
Bergman, Lotta
To1030.1
Bergmark Elfgren, Sara
Fr1700.2
Bergstrand, Mikael
Sö1130.1
Bergström, Helena
Fr1200.9
Bergström, Malin
Lö1300.4
Bergting, Peter
Bernhardtz, Victor
Billgren, Elsa
Bjerregaard, Maria
Bjärbo, Lisa
Björfors, Tilde
Björkman, Joakim
Bodegård, Anders
Bojner Horwitz, Eva
Bolin, Gunnar
Bonaventura, Linda
Borg, Alexandra
Boström, Mattias
Bravinger, Håkan
Bredow, Katarina von
van den Brekel, Guus
Brissman, Samuel
Bross, Helena
Brunila, Mikael
Brunnberg, Moa
Bumatay III, Sergio
Burman, Carina
Burton, Nina
Bushnell, Niel
Bylund, Henrik
Byström, Gabriel
Börjesson, Tore S
Fr1630.3
Lö1600.1
Sö1300.7
Fr1030.1
Fr1000.8, Fr1630.4
Fr1300.1
Fr1400.3
To1600.1, Fr1200.4
Sö1300.8
To1400.7
Fr1200.5
To1300.1
Sö1400.2
Lö1400.10
To1000.1, To1530.2
To1000.3
Fr1000.4
Fr1000.5
To1700.1
Fr1030.2
To1400.4
Fr1700.5
To1600.6
To1400.2
To1500.5
To1000.2
Lö1300.9
C
Calleman, Catharina
Carlberg, Ingrid
Carling, Maria
Carlsson, Christoffer
Carlsson, Gunilla
Carlsson, Kristian
Carlsson, Pia
Cărtărescu, Mircea
Carter, Lulu
Casta, Stefan
Cederborg, Staffan
Cervenka, Andreas
Charles, Alexandra
Chivu, Marius
Chrispinsson, John
Claesson, Maths
Corneliuson, Cay
Crăsnaru, Daniela
Cruz, Afonso
Fr1230.3
To1100.1
Lö1000.6
Fr1600.5
To1000.2
Lö1400.5
To1700.3
To1300.6, Fr1300.5,
Fr1500.5, Lö1700.4
Lö1530.5
To1600.8, Fr1400.4
Lö1330.4
Fr1100.7
Sö1300.8
To1300.6
To1700.3, Fr1130.1,
Fr1300.1, Fr1400.7,
Lö1500.11, Sö1300.4
Lö1030.3, Sö1200.6
To1500.5
To1500.9
To1400.7
D
Dahl, Arne
To1600.9, Fr1000.1,
Lö1200.7
Dahl, Johan
Fr1130.3
Dahlberg, Gunilla
To1000.4
Dahle, Gro
To1300.10
Dahlerus, Magnus
Fr1400.11
Dahlgren, Eva F
Sö1130.3
Dahlgren, Helena
Lö1430.3
Dahlin, Eva
To1230.1, To1530.1,
Fr1230.2
Dahlin, Petrus
To1300.9
Danielsson Levin, Anna
To1630.2
Danius, Sara
To1400.9, To1600.2,
Fr1200.4, Fr1300.5
Darnell, Jonas
Fr1630.3
Demirbag-Sten, Dilsa To1700.3, Sö1100.6
Di Leva, Thomas
Sö1500.4
Diaz, Patricia
To1500.1
Dolatkhah, Mats
To1300.7
Donner, Jörn
Fr1730.3, Lö1300.5,
Sö1200.9
Dregen
Lö1300.9
Duke, Yukiko
Fr1000.8, Fr1430.2,
Lö1100.6, Lö1400.7
E
Eberan, Barbro
Eberhard, David
Edlund, Annika
Ehrstrand, Börje
Einhorn, Lena
Einhorn, Stefan
Ekberg, Peter
Ekendahl, Maria
Ekengren, Kerstin
Ekerwald, Carl-Göran
Ekis Ekman, Kajsa
Eklund, Jeanna
Ekman, Henrik
Ekman, Kerstin
Ekman, Oskar
Ekström, Susanna
Elam, Ingrid
Ellerström, Jonas
Ellervik, Ulf
Engberg, Martin
Engdahl, Horace
Engholm, Bengt-Erik
Engström, Ida
Engvall, Caroline
Enquist, PO
Ericson, Bengt
Eriksson, Jessica
Eriksson, Kjell
Eriksson, Lena
Espedal, Tomas
Espelund, Görrel
Espmark, Kjell
Everdahl, Göran
Fr1100.8
Lö1430.2
To1500.8
To1700.3
Lö1330.2
Lö1500.2, Sö1200.1
To1600.8, Sö1200.6
To1700.2
Fr1000.6
To1500.4
Fr1100.7
Fr1330.3, Fr1500.2
Lö1300.7
To1600.6, Fr1000.9
Fr1200.5
To1000.4
To1000.2, Fr1000.1,
Lö1100.4
To1300.6, To1600.1,
Fr1100.6, Lö1400.3
Fr1630.2
Sö1030.5
Lö1230.4, Lö1600.3
Lö1330.4
Sö1500.8
To1230.4
Lö1600.8
Sö1430.3
Fr1100.10
Lö1500.1
To1300.10
Fr1100.2
Lö1200.10, Lö1400.9
Lö1600.3
Lö1700.1
F
Fant, Mikael
Fr1730.2
Farran-Lee, Stephen
Lö1600.10
Farrokhzad, Athena
Lö1600.5, Sö1100.5
Farzaneh, Farzad
To1100.9
Fazlhashemi, Mohammad
Fr1300.3
Fenti, Henok
Sö1500.8
Ferrari, Patricio
Fr1500.8
Fexeus, Henrik
Fr1500.2, Fr1700.1
Fichtelius, Erik
To1030.2
Figes, Orlando
Fr1500.6
Fioretos, Aris
To1600.6
Florescu, Cătălin Dorian Lö1100.2, Lö1400.3,
Sö1200.4
Flygt, Torbjörn
Lö1230.3
Ford, Richard
Lö1100.4
Forssberg, Lars Ragnar
Sö1100.3
Forssberg, Manne
Lö1300.4
Forster, Martin
To1100.6
Franck, Eskil
Lö1330.5
Francke, Helena
To1000.3, To1300.7
Frank, Lone
Fr1000.3
Fred, Eva
To1300.10, Lö1400.8
Fredriksson, Anna
Fredriksson, Karl G.
Fredriksson, Lilian
Frenkel, Kristoffer
Frick, Lennart
Fridolin, Gustav
Friedner, Maria
Fuglesang, Christer
Lö1000.2
Lö1700.3
Lö1700.3
Lö1530.2
To1100.2
Lö1000.5, Lö1300.4
Lö1100.3
Lö1630.4
G
Gahrton, Måns
Fr1000.5
Lö1200.5
Galaczy, Melinda
Fr1400.3
Gardell, Jonas
Fr1530.1
Fr1730.1
Lö1500.7
Gavanas, Anna
Fr1230.3
Lö1000.7
Gedin, Eva
Lö1030.1
Lö1330.2
Lö1500.4
Lö1700.1
Gergely, Dezideriu
Lö1100.2
Gessle, Per
Sö1200.2
Gillberg, Malin
Fr1300.10
Gonzalez, Malin
Sö1100.6
Goon, Mrittika
Lö1400.5
Goon, Nirmalendu
Fr1400.11
Lö1400.5
Gradvall, Jan
Fr1200.4
Lö1400.2
Grandin, Karl
Sö1500.8
Granqvist, Carl Jan
To1600.3
Grebe, Camilla
Lö1200.7
Grigorcea, Dana
Fr1700.8
Lö1400.3
Grive, Madeleine
Lö1500.6
Grutzky, Eduardo
To1430.3
Grähs, Gunna
To1300.10
Grönkvist, Sofia
To1300.8
Grönlund, Lena
To1500.5
Grönvall, Camilla
Fr1100.10
Guillou, Jan
Fr1100.3
Lö1400.6
Sö1100.9
Guldbrandsson, Lennart
To1000.5
Gustafsson Chen, Anna
Lö1100.7
Gustafsson, Lars H
Sö1300.9
Gustafsson, Lisbeth
Lö1000.10
Gustafsson, Madeleine
To1600.6
Gustavsdotter, Maria
Lö1330.1
Gustavsson, Leif
Fr1200.2
Gustavsson, Per
To1300.8, To1600.3,
Fr1100.4, Fr1500.3
Gäddnäs, Katarina
Lö1000.2
Gärdén, Cecilia
To1300.7
Göransson, Jan
Sö1200.9
Göransson, Mattias
Fr1500.4
H
Haapala, Tuomo
Fr1300.1, Sö1300.5
Hadenius, Patrik
To1200.1, Lö1600.9
Hadenius, Pingis
Sö1230.1
Haegerström, Johanna
To1200.8
Hagberg, Mattias
To1400.1, Sö1400.4
Hagen, Cecilia
Fr1500.9, Sö1100.8
Haglund, Lena
Lö1300.7
Hahr, Sofia
To1630.1
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participants
Göteborg Book fair 2013
Hallberg, Lin
To1230.1, Fr1300.8
Halldin, Magnus
To1600.6
Hallin, Cecilia
Sö1330.1
Halvardson, Sven
Fr1300.3
Hamberg, Emma
Sö1100.4
Hammarén, Pontus
To1000.2
Hammargren, Lena
To1600.9
Hammarstedt, Pecka
Sö1100.5
Hampson Lundh, Anna
To1300.7
Hansegård, Jens
Lö1630.4
Hansen, Peo
To1200.2
Hansson, Jan
To1200.6
Harding, Gunnar
To1600.6, Fr1100.6
Harris, Ted
Lö1000.10
Harrison Lindbergh, Katarina
Fr1600.8
Harrison, Dick
Fr1400.7, Fr1600.8
Hasselgren, Gunilla
Fr1500.9
Havstad, Bitte
Fr1200.3
Hedengren, Sania
Lö1700.2
Hedenmark, Veronica
Lö1500.8
Hedensjö, Katarina
Lö1100.5
Hedin, Tora
To1400.7
Hedman, Magnus
Sö1300.1
Hedström, Kajsa
To1200.4
Heed, Jesper
Sö1400.5
Helander, Karin
Fr1200.11
Hellberg, Amanda
Sö1300.6
Hellberg, Hillevi
Fr1330.2
Hellmark Lindgren, Birgitta
To1000.3
Hellsing, Johanna
Lö1000.9
Hellsing, Lennart
Lö1000.9
Hemmingsson, Nina
Lö1500.5
Hermele, Bernt
Fr1200.7
Hilding, Stefan
To1330.1, To1530.4,
Sö1130.2
Hilton, Johan
To1300.4, Fr1530.1,
Lö1200.8, Lö1600.1
Hjort, Madeleine
To1600.8, Fr0945.1
Hjorth, Elisabeth
Lö1100.2, Lö1400.10
Hjulström, Carin
To1000.4
Hjörne, Eva
To1100.3
Hoffstedt, Gustaf
To1000.2
Holmer, Linda
Fr1430.4
Holmer, Louise
Sö1100.7
Holmgren Larsson, Pernilla
Fr1030.3
Holmqvist, Anette
Fr0945.1
Holmqvist, Ivo
Lö1130.3
Holmström, Johanna
Fr1600.2
Houltzén Hammarberg, Eva
Fr1200.6
Hron-Öberg, Irina
Fr1700.8
Hyde, Adam
To1300.1
Håkansson, Jan
To1300.3
Häger, Lars
Fr1400.11
Hägg, Göran
Fr1600.7, Lö1500.10
Hägglund, Maggan
Sö1500.3
Högberg, Stefan
To1000.5
Höglund, Johan
To1300.5
I
Ihmels, Yvonne
Ilis, Florina
Ingemarsson, Kajsa
Ingvar, Martin
Ingvarsson, Stefan
Isol
Israel, Dan
Izner, Claude
To1600.4
To1400.7
Sö1030.3
Lö1630.3
To1100.1, To1400.6,
To1600.1
To1200.9
Sö1100.3
Lö1000.1
J
Jackert, Cilla
Jacobsson, Anders
Jacobsson, Ritta
Jansdotter, Nina
20
To1530.2
Sö1500.6
Lö1400.1
Sö1400.4
Janson, Malena
Jansson, Anna
Jansson, Bo
Jarl, Stefan
Jensen, Caroline L
Jinghede, Anna
Johansson, Annelie
Johansson, Carolina
Johansson, Jessica
Johansson, Karin
Johansson, Kjell
Johansson, Per
Johansson, Stefan
Jonasson, Jonas
Jones, John Y.
Jonsson, Cecilia
Jonsson, Inge
Jonsson, Stefan
Jonstoij, Tove
Jonušys, Laimantas
Jordahl, Anneli
Josefsson, Dan
Josefsson, Pernilla
Jovanka Ćirlić, Dorota
Jungersten, Sara
Jungstedt, Mari
Jåma, Sharon
Jägerfeld, Jenny
Jönsson, Martin
Jönsson, Mats
Fr1200.9
To1630.1
Fr1300.7
Fr1100.7, Sö1200.9
Lö1430.3
Lö1330.1
Fr1100.10
Lö1000.10
Lö1300.2
To1000.7
Lö1600.2, Sö1430.2
Fr0945.1
Sö1045.1
Fr1500.11, Lö1200.3
Lö1400.5
Fr1000.2
To1330.3, To1600.6
To1200.2
To1600.3
To1400.7
Fr1100.3
Lö1300.10
To1600.8, Fr1200.2
To1400.7
Fr1600.2
Lö1300.3
To1200.3, To1600.2
Fr1000.3, Fr1700.1
Fr1000.8
To1400.8
To1200.4
K
Kadefors, Sara
Kahle, Sigrid
Kaiser, Michael
Kallentoft, Mons
Kalmteg, Lina
Kampås, Ingrid
Kapla, Marit
Karlsson, Anne-Marie
Karlsson, Klas-Göran
Karlsson, Peter
Kastevik, Janina
Kaunitz, Martin
Kempe, Mats
Kerstell, Cecilia
Kieri, Katarina
Kindstrand, Gunilla
Kirchsteiger, Ernst
Kivelä, Malin
Kleen, Björn af
Klingspor, Agneta
Knausgård, Karl Ove
Knutsson, Cecilia
Koljonen, Johanna
Kollberg, Ewa
Kolu, Siri
Korb, Liliane
Kornhall, Per
Korsström, Tuva
Krogh, Torbjörn von
Kroksmark, Tomas
Kronbergs, Juris
Kronlöf, Bianca
Krook, Caroline
Kumm, Björn
Lö1400.11
To1500.4, Fr1030.4
To1500.7
Lö1200.11
Lö1430.1
Sö1200.7
Fr1100.7, Lö1200.4
To1430.1
Lö1100.2, Sö1200.4
Lö1630.1, Sö1200.3
Lö1030.3
Fr1600.9
To1200.9, To1400.4
Sö1300.9
To1100.1
Fr1600.7, Lö1400.8
Lö1600.9
To1130.2
To1530.3
Lö1200.8
Fr1600.6
To1300.3
To1400.5, To1700.2
Fr1600.2, Lö1500.5
Sö1200.6, Sö1500.7
To1000.4
To1130.2
Lö1000.1
Fr1300.7
Lö1100.9
To1400.8
Fr1230.4
To1100.2
To1000.7
Fr1100.7
To1400.1
L
Laestadius Larsson, Anna
Lagercrantz, Agneta
Lagercrantz, David
Sö1030.4
Sö1200.1
Lö1400.8
Lagerström, Ann
Lahger, Håkan
Landström, Lena
Landström, Olof
Lans, Håkan
Larsmo, Ola
Fr1400.6, Lö1130.4
Sö1130.2
Fr1500.1
Fr1500.1
Fr1300.1
Fr1400.11, Lö1300.8
Lö1600.6
Larsson, Barbro
Fr1530.2
Larsson, Björn
Fr1300.2
Larsson, Lisbeth
To1100.4
Lassén-Seger, Maria
To1100.9, Fr1100.4
Fr1700.10
Leander-Engström, Paul
Lö1200.7
Leandoer, Kristoffer
To1300.2, To1600.2
Fr1200.8, Lö1600.7
Lefèvre, Laurence
Lö1000.1
Leffler, Yvonne
To1600.2
Leijnegard, Micke
Sö1100.9
Leijnse, Emma
Fr1300.7
Lempert, Larry
Fr1200.9
Lennér Axelson, Barbro
Lö1200.2
Lešinska, Ieva
To1100.2
Liberg, Caroline
Fr1500.7, Sö1300.4
Lidén, Alexandra
Lö1530.5
Lidheimer, Jonas
Fr1400.3
Lidström, Anna
Sö1030.6
Lidström, Clara
Sö1030.6, Sö1300.7
Lidström, Kristin
Fr1430.4
Liedman, Sven-Eric
Fr1400.6
Liljegren, Bengt
Lö1400.9
Liljestrand, Jens
To1500.9, Lö1000.2
Limberg, Louise
To1300.7
Lindberg, Niclas
To1030.2
Lindbäck, Johanna
Fr1400.10, Fr1630.4
Linde, Peter
To1600.7
Lindenbaum, Pija
To1530.1, Fr1100.4
Fr1430.2, Fr1700.10
Lö1030.1
Linder, Karin
Fr1400.2
Linderborg, Åsa
Fr1200.8, Lö1500.9
Lö1600.2
Lindh, Jenny
Fr1400.2
Lindholm, Jessica
Fr1100.5
Lindqvist, Annelie
Lö1700.2
Lindqvist, Elise
To1500.2
Lindqvist, Herman
Lö1500.11, Sö1400.1
Lindqvist, Maja
Lö1400.1
Lindström, Eva
To1500.8, Fr1330.1
Lindström, Fredrik
Fr1700.4
Lindström, Jonathan
To1530.4, Fr1000.7
Fr1600.7, Lö1630.4
Lindström, Sven
Sö1200.2
Linnell, Björn
To1100.5, To1300.3
Fr1300.2, Fr1500.7
Lö1030.2, Lö1200.2
Lö1600.7
Ljunggren, Magnus
To1230.1
Ljungqvist, Christin
To1630.2
Lotass, Lotta
Lö1230.4
Lucassi, Elin
To1300.7, Fr1300.10
Ludvigsson, Ann
To1100.8
Lundberg Hahn, Kerstin
To1300.9
Lundberg, Christer
Sö1500.4
Lundberg, Kristian
Lö1530.4, Sö1100.5
Lundberg, Patrik
Fr1300.8
Lundberg, Sara
To1700.3
Lundgren, Gunilla
To1500.3, Lö1400.8
Lundgren, Ulf P
To1300.3
Lundholm, Åsa
To1300.2, Fr1500.7
Lundquist, Marie
To1100.2, Fr1100.6
Lungu, Dan
To1500.9
Luther, Annika
Fr1000.7
Luuk, Kristian
Fr1700.4
Lysander, Elisabeth
Lö1200.4
Läckberg, Camilla
Sö1200.5
Lärn, Viveca
Fr1400.1
Löfving, Christina
Fr1300.1
Löwengrip, Isabella
Lövestam, Sara
Lövgren, Erica
Sö1230.1
Lö1530.3
Fr1600.7
M
Malmberg, Carl-Johan
Fr1430.3
Malmgren, Sven-Göran
Sö1100.7
Manea, Norman
To1300.6, Fr1100.11
Fr1500.5
Manfred, Christian
Fr1430.3
Mankell, Henning
Lö1230.1
Mansén, Elisabeth
Sö1230.2
Marklund, Mette
Lö1200.1
Martens, Monica von
Sö1100.7
Mattsson, Erik
Fr1100.9
Mazetti, Katarina
Fr1230.1
Mazzarella, Merete
Fr1300.6
Melin, Martin
Lö1630.2
Melin, Olav S
To1700.1
Mendel Westberg, Malin
Sö1100.2
Midander, Erik
Fr1200.3
Midthun, Arild
Fr1600.7
Mihali, Felicia
Lö1400.3
Mikkelsen, Jens
To1100.5
Mohtadi, Lawen
To1500.5
Moran, Caitlin
Fr1600.9, Lö1400.2
Myrberg, Mats
Sö1300.4
Månsson, Erik
Sö1430.1
Mårtenson, Jan
Lö1030.5
Möller, Beate
Sö1400.4
N
Naumann, Cilla
Neidestam, Lina
Neij, Maria
Fr1530.4
Sö1500.7
Fr1700.5, Lö1000.1
Lö1500.1, Sö1300.6
Sö1400.2
Nesser, Håkan
Sö1030.1
Nicolaie, Ioana
Lö1500.6
Nilson, Cecilia
To1000.1, Fr1200.11
Fr1600.4
Nilsonne, Åsa
Lö1300.6, Lö1600.7
Nilsson Spets, Anna
Lö1000.3
Nilsson Thore, Maria
Fr1100.4, Fr1230.2
Nilsson, Isabella
Fr1430.4
Nilsson, Mats-Eric
Lö1100.1
Nilsson, Matz
Fr0945.1
Nilsson, Moni
To1100.9
Nilsson, Per
To1030.1, To1400.10
Fr1400.4
Nilsson, PM
Sö1430.1
Nirstedt, Gunnar
Lö1700.4
Nohrstedt, Jon
Sö1100.1
Nordell, Andreas
Sö1100.5
Nordenhök, Hanna
Lö1400.10
Nordin, Magnus
Fr1000.8
Nordin, Sofia
Fr1600.4
Nordin, Svante
Lö1400.9
Nordqvist, Sven
To1600.8
Nordstrand, Lena Maria
Fr1000.6
Nordstrand, Staffan
Fr1030.3
Normell , Margareta
Fr1100.1
Nyaklyayewa, Eva
To1230.3
Nyberg, Lars
Fr1330.2
Nygren, Maria
Fr1500.2
Nyqvist, Michael
Lö1400.7
O
Ó Conghaile, Mícheál
O’Yeah, Zac
Odensten, Per
To1400.7
Lö1500.1
Lö1500.4
Ohlsson, Kristina
Oksanen, Sofi
Oldsberg, Ingvar
Olsson, Ingrid
Olsson, Jesper
Olsson, Jojje
Olsson, Lotta
Olsson, Lotta
Olsson, Mattias
Olsson, Sören
Olsson, Vibeke
Orlov, Janina
Ormes, Nene
Oscar K.
Oscarson, Stina
Osika, Walter
Osten, Suzanne
To1600.3, Lö1130.1
Lö1600.5, Sö1330.2
Sö1100.3
To1000.1
To1300.1
Lö1200.6
To1400.2, Fr1200.11
Lö1300.1
To1530.1
To1600.8
Sö1500.6
Fr1530.3
To1130.2, To1230.3
Sö1330.2
Lö1400.4
To1300.10
To1000.2
Sö1300.8
Lö1300.11
P
Palm, Olle
Fr1000.6
Palmaer, Andreas
Fr1200.11, Lö1230.5
Palmer, Brian
Lö1600.6
Pascalidou, Alexandra To1300.4, Fr1200.5
Persson, Annika
To1100.4
Persson, Johan
Fr1500.4
Persson, Klara
Fr1330.1
Persson, Leif GW
Fr1600.3, Lö1600.10
Persson, Magnus
To1030.1, To1400.5
Fr1400.2
Persson, Åke
Lö1030.4
Petrén, Ann
Lö1300.11
Petri, Kristian
Fr1200.8, Lö1430.5
Pettersson, Cecilia
To1600.2
Pettersson, Ylva
To1200.1
Pichler, Gabriella
Sö1200.9
Pleijel, Agneta
To1600.6, Fr1100.11
Poohl, Daniel
To1700.1, Lö1500.9
Pramling Samuelsson, Ingrid
Fr1300.1
R
Rafael, Nanoy
To1400.4
Rahman, Anisur
Fr1400.11, Lö1400.5
Rahman, Ruby
Fr1400.11, Lö1400.5
Rainer, Lena
Sö1100.8
Ranelid, Björn
To1700.3, Lö1130.5
Reichenberg, Monica
Sö1100.6
Reitzer, Angelika
Fr1700.8
Renman, Hans
To1500.1
Reuterstrand, Siri
Fr1000.7
Rhedin, Ulla
To1300.10, Fr1330.1
Riedel, Georg
To1600.3
Ringdahl, Ola
Lö1630.3
Rockberg, Ola
Lö1530.2
Rodin Lundberg, Margareta
Fr1400.2
Roland, Per Øystein
Fr1000.7
Romanus, Susanna
Lö1230.3, Sö1130.1
Rosengren, Elin-Love
Lö1000.6
Rosin, Hanna
Lö1200.10
Rossi, Oscar
Fr1100.2
Rottböll, Grethe
To1100.9, To1500.6
Roxberg, Ester
Lö1300.2, Lö1600.1
Rudberg, Denise
Fr1700.5
Rudberg, Johannes
Fr1000.1
Rundström, Marianne Fr1500.9, Lö1200.3
Lö1300.6
Runge, Björn
Lö1600.4
Ruth, Arne
Lö1400.5
Rutherhagen, Johan
Sö1400.5
Rynell, Elisabeth
To1200.7
Rådström, Niklas
To1600.6, Lö1000.8
Sö1100.5
Rödöö, Bibi
Sö1330.1
S
Safier, David
Said, Sami
Salmson, Jo
Samad, Muhammad
Samartin, Cecilia
Sandberg, Katarina
Sandels, Marianne
Sandén, Mårten
Sanders, Hanne
Sandström, Daniel
Lö1300.1, Sö1230.3
Lö1030.2
Lö1030.3, Sö1200.6
Fr1400.11, Lö1400.5
Fr1700.6, Lö1500.3
To1330.4
Lö1100.10
To1130.3, To1600.3
Lö1130.3
To1200.8, To1400.5
Fr1200.4
Savic, Vladislav
Sö1300.2
Schibbye, Martin
Fr1500.4
Schiefauer, Jessica
Sö1030.5
Schlingmann, Per
Fr1700.1
Schreeb, Johan von
To1130.1
Schueler, Kaj
Fr1200.1
Schulman, Ninni
Sö1300.6
Schwarz, Åsa
Lö1100.3
Schyman, Gudrun
Fr1700.3
Sehlberg, Dan T
Sö1400.3
Selander, Marie
Lö1000.7
Selling, Åsa
Lö1330.3, Sö1100.2
Shafran, Dan
To1430.2
Sheppard, Sarah
Fr1330.3
Sigurdson, Ola
To1700.1
Simonson, Nisse
Sö1500.2
Sjöberg, Fredrik
Fr1330.4, Lö1000.4
Sjöberg, Lena
To1500.6, Fr1700.10
Sjöberg, Thomas
Fr1400.9
Skarp, Ann-Marie
Fr1700.5
Skoglund, Lotta
Sö1300.3
Skott, Julia
Lö1500.5
Skugge, Linda
Fr1430.1
Skytte, Göran
Lö1130.2
Sköld, Markus
To1400.3
Sköld, Sophie
To1600.1
Snickars, Pelle
To1300.1
Sol, Mikael
Fr1630.3
Sommardal, Göran
Lö1100.7
Stadling, Anna
Sö1100.5
Stalfelt, Pernilla
Fr1030.2
Stark, Ulf
Fr1000.5, Lö1400.8
Stehn, Malin
To1430.4
Steiner, Ann
To1400.5, To1700.2
Sten, Viveca
Sö1500.1
Stenberg, Magnus
Fr1300.3
Stensköld, Eva
To1000.3
Stenström, Paula
Sö1045.1
Stielli, Christina
Lö1230.2
Strandberg, Mats
Fr1700.2
Streeruwitz, Marlene
To1600.4
Ström, Eva
To1600.3, Fr1200.1
Strömgård, Katarina
Fr1100.4
Strömstedt, Jenny
Lö1300.4, Lö1500.3
Sö1300.7
Stuart, Carola
To1100.3
Ståhlberg, Johan
Lö1530.2
Sucksdorff, Jens
Lö1300.7
Sundström, Lena
To1100.5
Svedjedal, Johan
To1600.6, Fr1000.1
Sveland, Maria
Fr1700.3, Lö1100.8
Svensson, Amanda
To1200.8
Svensson, Pelle
To1400.6
Svensson, Per
Fr1600.6
Swärd Bergström, Anna
Fr1100.5
Säljö, Roger
To1100.3
Söderberg, Eva
To1200.6
Söderberg, Jana
Fr1130.2
Söderberg, Maria
To1230.3
Söderlind, Therése
Fr1000.9
Söderlund, Petra
Lö1430.4
T
Tahvanainen, Sanna
Fr1600.2
Taikon, Fred
To1500.3
Taivassalo, Hannele Mikaela
Lö1430.3
Takala, Anna-Stina
To1500.5
Talgre, Maarja
Lö1000.4
Tandefeldt, Henrika
Lö1500.11
Tarkiainen, Kari
Fr1130.1
Tarkiainen, Ülle
Fr1130.1
Taube, Karin
Sö1300.4
Teir, Philip
Fr1300.2, Lö1000.2
Tengblad, Cajsa
Sö1300.1
Tenngart, Paul
Fr1330.2
Tentea, Simona
Fr1400.5
Themptander, Christer
Lö1530.1
Theorell, Töres
Sö1300.8
Theorin, Johan
Lö1100.6
Thorburn, Annakarin
To1330.4
Thorell, Julia
Sö1500.7
Thorgren, Gunilla
Sö1100.9
Thylefors, Ingela
Lö1200.2
Tingsby, Bodil
To1500.7
Titusson, Erik
Fr1500.1
Tollgård, Sigrid
Fr1430.1
Torbiörnsson, Tove
Sö1200.9
Trosell, Aino
Lö1630.1
Törnqvist, Anna Clara
Fr1400.4
Törnqvist, Marit
To1100.9
Fr1700.10
U
Widsell, Ulrika
To1400.8
Wieslander, Jujja
To1330.2, Fr1500.3
Wigers, Valle
Sö1030.5
Wigorts Yngvesson, Susanne
To1400.8
Willis, Helena
Fr1230.2
Wiman, Björn
Fr1500.5, Lö1500.7
Viotti, Sofia
Sö1200.1
Wirsén, Carin
To1630.1
Witt-Brattström, Ebba
Lö1100.9
Wixe, Kerstin
To1200.7, Fr1200.1
Vonderau, Patrick
To1000.3
Voors, Barbara
Fr1400.5
Wopenka, Johan
Lö1700.3
Vosganian, Varujan
Lö1100.2, Lö1300.8
Wänblad, Mats
To1300.8
Wästberg, Per
Fr1700.9
Lö1000.4
Y
Yazbek, Samar
Z
Zacke, Susanna
Lö1700.2
Zajíček, Pavel
To1400.7
Zaremba, Maciej
To1400.6, Fr1300.9
Zschiedrich, Odd
Sö1100.7
Zweigbergk, Helena von
Lö1100.8
Lö1600.8
Å
Uddén, Cecilia
To1500.4, Fr1600.1
Ukotic Zetterlund, Boris
Fr1200.6
Ulvegren, Frida
Sö1500.7
Unenge, Johan
Fr1330.3, Fr1400.3
Lö1200.5, Sö1100.6
Uusma, Bea
Sö1200.3
Åberg, Lars
Åhlin, Per
Åhlund, Jannike
Åhlund, Rebecka
Åkerstedt, Rachel
V, W
Ö
de Waal, Frans
Wagner, Katia
Wahlberg, Karin
Wahlström, Johan
Waldemarsson, Jerry
Wall, Gunnar
Waller, Karin
van den Brekel, Guus
Wejryd, Anders
Wennerberg, Tor
Wernlid, Eva
Vershbow, Ben
Wester, Ada
Wester, Johanna
Westerberg, Anders
Westerlund, Ulrika
Westin, Birgitta
Westin, Elisabeth
Westin, Signe
Westlin, Birgitta
Westman, Johanna
Westö, Kjell
Wetterberg, Gunnar
Weyler, Svante
Wiberg, David
Widell, Hannah
Widén, Klas
Widerberg, Siv
Widmark, Martin
Widmark, Wilhelm
To1200.3, Fr1000.3
To1100.5
Lö1330.3
Fr0945.1
Sö1100.8
Fr1630.1
Lö1400.4
To1000.3
Fr1600.3
Lö1130.4
Fr1530.2
To1300.1
To1330.4
To1600.5
Lö1230.5
Fr1530.1
To1500.6
To1300.3
Fr1400.2
Sö1100.5
Fr1030.2
Fr1400.6, Lö1000.2
Lö1600.2
Fr1500.10
To1530.3, Fr1300.9
Lö1430.5, Sö1430.2
Fr1000.8, Sö1045.1
Sö1500.5
Lö1000.9
To1330.2
Fr1130.4, Fr1500.7
Sö1100.6
To1000.3
Fr1600.1
Öberg, Hans-Olov
Öhlund, Annika
Öhman, Anders R.
Östberg, Kjell
Österlund, Mattias
Östling, Brutus
Östlund, Cecilia
To1430.3
Lö1200.4
Fr1700.4, Lö1300.5
To1200.5
Fr1030.4
Lö1630.5
Sö1045.1
To1600.6
Fr1400.7
Fr1700.3, Lö1200.7
Sö1030.2
To1430.1
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information
Göteborg Book Fair september 26–29, 2013
• Open for trade visitors
Thursday 9 am–6 pm
Friday
9 am–2 pm
• Open for all
Friday
2 pm–7 pm
Saturday 9 am–6 pm
Sunday 9 am–5 pm
• Tickets
Thursday to Friday 2 pm:
SEK 220 (approx €24) per day
Friday 2 pm to Sunday:
SEK 160 (approx €17) per day
• Seminar cards
For details on all seminar card prices, please
see our website www.goteborg-bookfair.com
To pre-book tickets, contact:
info@goteborg-bookfair.com
• Seminar halls
An up-to-date list s­ howing where each
­seminar is held will be available at the
­information desks at the Book Fair.
The list will also be avail­able at our website
www.goteborg-bookfair.com from mid-­
September.
• How to find us
Göteborg Book Fair takes p
­ lace at the Swedish
­Exhibition & Congress Centre in Göteborg.
How to find us:
By car: Exit the E6 / E20 ­motorway at the
“Mässan Scandinavium Liseberg” exit.
By train: From Central Station in Göteborg,
take tram 2 or tram 4 from Drottningtorget to
Korsvägen.
By air: From Landvetter airport you can take
airport buses which stop at Korsvägen out­side
the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre.
By tram: Trams 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 13 all stop at
Korsvägen. For more information on time­
tables, prices and tickets, please see
www.vasttrafik.se
• Timetables for buses and trams
In Entry 5, the main entrance, there is a monitor displaying up-to-date bus and tram arrival
and departure times from Korsvägen. Time­
tables are also available online at
www.vasttrafik.se
• Information desks
There are manned information desks
throughout the exhibition centre.
• Website
Information about the ­Göteborg Book Fair,­
­programme changes and additions see:
www.goteborg-bookfair.com
• Press centre
The press centre is located on the second floor
and is equipped with computers, printers and
copy machines.
PHoto: Niklas Maupoix
• Cafés, restaurants and bars
There are more than twenty cafés, restaurants and bars within the Swedish Exhibition
& Congress Centre. Collect a map at one of
the information desks.
• Accessibility
• Hotel rooms
May be booked through
Svenska Mässan Hotel S­ ervice,
SE-412 94 Göteborg
Tel: +46 31 708 86 90
Fax: + 46 31 708 87 59
E-mail:
hotelservice@svenskamassan.se
• Basic access is available to all our exhibition
halls, conference premises and restaurants.
• Cash dispenser / ATM
Two cash dispensers are located outside
the main entrance, Entry 5. Open 24 hours.
A cash dispenser / ATM is also located within
Pressbyrån newsagents on Korsvägen.
• Taxi
There is a taxi rank outside Hotel Gothia
­Towers’ e­ntrance.
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• The Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre’s
goal is that all activities within the e
­ xhibition
area should be accessible to our visitors regardless of their individual abilities.
• The Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre,
Göteborg Convention Centre and Hotel
­ othia Towers are certified in accordance with
G
quality’s a­ ccessibility criteria.
• There is free admission for companions of
­visitors with disabilities who require the
­assistance of a companion.
• Guide dogs for people with impaired vision
are permitted in all the premises.
Thank you
Göteborg Book Fair has over one hundred partners working
with us this year. We would like to thank you all!
A special thank you
is due to our main
partner within this
year's theme:
The Romanian
Cultural Institute.
A thank you also to Litteraturcentrum
Uppsala, Networkers South North, Voksenåsen-Oslo and Studiefrämjandet in
Uppsala County who have made Voices
from Bangladesh possible.
Nobel Prize Laureates
at the Göteborg Book Fair
Willy Brandt, 1990
Joseph Brodsky, 1988 & 1993
Shirin Ebadi, 2006
Dario Fo, 2005
Nadine Gordimer, 1989 & 2010
Günter Grass, 1994
Seamus Heaney, 1995
Imre Kertész, 1996 & 2003
Doris Lessing, 1986 & 1995
Herta Müller, 1993, 2008 & 2011
Kenzaburo Oe, 1992
Orhan Pamuk, 1995, 2005 & 2006
José Saramago, 1991
Isaac B. Singer, 1985
Wole Soyinka, 1987 & 1996
Tomas Tranströmer, 1988, 1990,
1996, 2000 & 2012
Desmond Tutu, 2007
Derek Walcott, 1993
Mario Vargas Llosa, 2011
Elie Wiesel, 1996
Avsändare:
Bok & Bibliotek i Norden AB /
Göteborg Book Fair
SE-412 94 Göteborg
Excellence
Elanders AB
+46 31 750 00 00
info@elanders.com
www.elanders.com