Programme

 

FRIDAY

THE AUDITORIUM/MODERNA BAR
7.00-8.00 pm Opening | Translation of the Year | Samar Yazbek (Swedish/Arabic)
8.00-11.00 pm Opening party in Moderna Bar

SATURDAY

THE AUDITORIUM
10.30-11.15 am Aminatta Forna; Key Note Speaker (English)
11.45 am-12.30 pm Juan Gabriel Vásquez & Lena Andersson (Spanish/Swedish)
1.00-1.45 pm Ying Chen & Meriç Algün Ringborg (English)
2.15-3.00 pm Edmund White & Aykan Safoglu (English)
3.30-4.15 pm Nthikeng Mohlele & Elisabeth Hjorth (English)
4.45-5.30 pm Enrique Vila-Matas & Daniel Sjölin (Spanish/Swedish)

BOOK SIGNINGS
11.25-11.35 am Aminatta Forna
12.05-12.15 pm Samar Yazbek
12.40-12.50 pm Juan Gabriel Vásque
1.55-2.05 pm Ying Chen
3.10-3.20 pm Edmund White
4.25-4.35 pm Nthikeng Mohlele
5.40-5.50 pm Enrique Vila-Matas

READINGS ON STAGE
10.50-11.20 am The translator behind the book (Swedish)
11.30 am-12.00 pm Samar Yazbek reads with Irene Lindh (Arabic/Swedish)
12.10-12.40 pm Nthikeng Mohlele (English)
12.50-1.20 pm Juan Gabriel Vásquez reads with Björn Granath (Spanish/Swedish)
1.30-2.00 pm Mikhail Shishkin reads with Gunilla Nyroos (Russian/Swedish)
2.10-2.40 pm Josefine Klougart reads with Julia Dufvenius (Danish/Swedish)
2.50-3.20 pm Sofi Oksanen reads with Magnus Ehrner (Finnish/Swedish)
3.30-4.00 pm Aminatta Forna (English)
4.10-4.40 pm Carol Ann Duffy (English)
4.50-5.20 pm Edmund White (English)

THE CINEMA
12.30-1.00 pm Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright by Akram Zaatari (video, 11:45 min), 2010.
1.30-2.15 pm Rebecka by Miriam Bäckström (video, 40:46 min), 2004.
3.30-4.15 pm Off-White Tulips by Aykan Safoglu (video, 23:54 min), 2013.
4.30-5.15 pm A World of Blind Chance by Meriç Algün Ringborg (video, 32:27 min), 2014.

EXHIBITIONS
12.00-12.45 pm Som man brukar säga (As They Say), performance by Miriam Bäckström & Rebecka Hemse, the Pontus Hultén Study Gallery
1.00-1.45 pm Poetry walk with Hannes Meidal, in the exhibition Sculpture after Sculpture
2.00-2.45 pm Som man brukar säga (As They Say), performance by Miriam Bäckström & Rebecka Hemse, the Pontus Hultén Study Gallery

SUNDAY

THE AUDITORIUM
10.30-11.15 am Extra event TBC
11.45 am-12.30 pm Michail Sjisjkin & Sofi Oksanen (English)
1.00-1.45 pm Goran Vojnovic & Akram Zaatari (English)
2.15-3.00 pm Josefine Klougart & Anna Clarén (Danish/Swedish)
3.30-4.15 pm Carol Ann Duffy (English)
4.45-5.30 pm Álvaro Enrigue & Carina Burman (English)

BOOK SIGNINGS
11.25-11.35 am Extra event TBC
12.40-12.50 pm Michail Sjisjkin & Sofi Oksanen
1.55-2.05 pm Goran Vojnovic
3.10-3.20 pm Josefine Klougart
4.25-4.35 pm Carol Ann Duffy 5.40-5.50 pm Álvaro Enrigue

READINGS ON STAGE
10.50-11.20 am Extra event TBC
11.30 am-12.00 pm Goran Vojnovic reads with xx (Slovenian/Swedish)
12.10-12.40 pm Ying Chen reads with Nina Fex (French/Swedish)
12.50-1.20 pm Álvaro Enrigue reads with Irene Lindh (Spanish/Swedish)
1.30-2.00 Reading by Meriç Algün Ringborg with Hannes Meidal (English)
2.10-2.40 am The translator behind the book (Swedish)
2.50-3.20 pm Enrique Vila-Matas reads with Lil Terselius (Spanish/Swedish)
3.30-4.00 pm Translated poetry with Lil Terselius and the translators (Swedish)

THE CINEMA
12.30-1.00 pm A World of Blind Chance by Meriç Algün Ringborg (video, 32:27 min), 2014.
1.30-2.15 pm Rebecka by Miriam Bäckström (video, 40:46 min), 2004.
3.30-4.15 pm Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright by Akram Zaatari (video, 11:45 min), 2010.
4.30-5.15 pm Off-White Tulips by Aykan Safoglu (video, 23:54 min), 2013.

EXHIBITIONS
11.00-11.45 am Som man brukar säga (As They Say), performance by Miriam Bäckström & Rebecka Hemse, the Pontus Hultén Study Gallery
1.00-1.45 pm Poetry walk with Hannes Meidal in the exhibition A Way of Life