LIS: Kjersti A. Skomsvold og Kristin Vego: Å skrive seg gjennom livet

We open the autumn season with two of the Nordic region's most prominent author voices:
Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold and Kristin Vego.

What happens when life sets the premises for writing? How is a writer's work shaped by reading, by illness, by motherhood – and by conversations with other writers?

Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold is currently working on "I Write to Become a Human", a book that stems from her literary conversations with some of the most important authors of our time. Through essays and reflections, she examines how reading, writing and encounters with other people shape both life and literature. She has previously written openly about how writing became a way of processing experiences with serious illness, including in "Monstermenneske", and has explored motherhood in her later novel "Barnet".

Kristin Vego is currently working on the long essay "Maybe It's My Heart", in which she writes about literature and motherhood. When she herself became a mother, she experienced that fiction came to a standstill. Instead, she turned to the books she loved, to explore what literature can do – and how reading can open new paths into writing.

This evening they will meet for a conversation about reading and writing as a life practice, about literary role models, about the art of finding one's own voice - and about how experiences from life find their way into literature.

Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold debuted with "The Faster I Go, the Smaller I Am", which received the Tarjei Vesaas' debutant prize and became an international success translated into a wide range of languages. She has since published novels, essays, poems and children's books, and was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 2015.

Kristin Vego debuted with the short story collection "See All the Beautiful for the Last Time", which received both the Tarjei Vesaas Debutant Prize and the Bogforum Debutant Prize in Denmark. The novel Sent på dagen solidified her position as one of the most interesting young authors in the Nordic region, and in 2025 she was awarded the Wassmo Scholarship.

Book sale at NORLI Arkaden.

Ticket prices:
Ordinary: 250
LIS member: 200
Students: 150
Link to purchase LIS membership: http://bit.ly/4askN9G

Photo (Skomsvold, Kjersti A.): Olve Sande
Photo (Vego, K.): Birgit Solhaug