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The Norwegian Festival of Literature (in Norwegian Sigrid Undset-dagene) is the biggest non commercial literary festival in the Nordic countries taking place in May/June in Lillehammer every year since 1995. The festival is includes all the Nordic countries in its scope and has developed into a popular festival where both writers and people from the book publishing industry, both domestic and foreign, are represented. The 2013-festival had over 200 events, 400 artists/writers and counted 24,173 visitors. The program consists of debates, readings, concerts, films, seminars, theater, interviews and more and the visitors are represented by kids, journalists, publishers, up and coming writers, librarians, students, translators, critics, politicians, local readers and the general public. ''Pegasus'' is the festival's offering to children and youths and consists of nearly one-third of the program. J.M. Coetzee, Herta Müller, Amos Oz, Zadie Smith, Per Petterson, Märta Tikkanen, André Brink, Margaret Atwood, John Irving, Ko Un, Sofi Oksanen, Shaun Tan, Adonis, Antony and the Johnsons are amongst the previous guests at the festival. ==History== The festival originated from the Nansen Academy's Sigrid Undset seminaries in 1993 and 1994. The festival has been named after the Norwegian author and Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset who lived in Lillehammer between 1919 and her death in 1949.Oppland county municipality has provided support for the festival since its inception. In 1999 the Norwegian government contributed financially allocating a grant in the annual state budget as an earmarked part of the budget post for the Maihaugen cultural museum in Lillehammer. In 2001 the Norwegian Publishers Association commenced regularly contributing financially. Since 2006 the festival has been classified as a "Junction Festival", which entails a separate item in the State Budget. Artistic directors: * Øyvind Berg between 1997 and 2003 * Birgit Hatlehol from 2004 till 2006. * Stig Sæterbakken was artistic advisor from 2006 until October 9, 2008. * Endre Ruset 2009-2011. (Lars Mytting had the responability during the 2011-festival.) * Gabriel Moro was artistic adviser for the 2012-festival. * Lina Undrum Mariussen is the current artistic adviser. Festival directors: * Randi Thorsen from 1997 to 2003 * Tone Kolaas from 2003 to 2006. * Randi Skeie from 2006 until 2010 * Kjersti Stenseng 2010-2011 * The present festival director is Marit Borkenhagen starting in 2011. ;Past themes * 1999 – Damned writers * 2000 – Folly and writers * 2001 – Power * 2002 – Myths * 2003 – Crime and poetry * 2004 – Europe * 2005 – Conflict and reconciliation * 2006 – Staging * 2007 – Infidelity * 2008 – Future * 2009 – Truth * 2010 - Break away * 2011 - The city * 2012 - Money * 2013 - Responsibility 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Norwegian Festival of Literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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