{"id":262426,"date":"2008-05-29T07:49:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T07:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/05\/29\/lillehammer-day-one\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:10","slug":"lillehammer-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/05\/29\/lillehammer-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Lillehammer Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good news on two fronts from Lillehammer: the internet is free, and they have free coffee in the lobby of the hotel via a Nespresso<\/a> machine—I’ll have to get one for myself soon.<\/p>\n

The festival started off for us yesterday with a lecture by Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad at the Lillehammer Kunstmuseum<\/a>. The overall theme of the talk, “Viscosity, or just hanging around: The meaning of presence in contemporary literature”, was a little bit lost on me—I think you needed to be pretty familiar with all of the authors Kjell talked about to see the connections he was drawing—but it was a good overview of contemporary Norwegian literature nonetheless, touching on Graywolf’s Per Petterson<\/a> and Dag Solstad<\/a>, our Jan Kjaerstad<\/a> (whose last name I spent a long time trying to learn how to pronounce over drinks, I think I almost have it), Erlend Loe, Inger Br\u00e5tveit (more on her later), and Hanne \u00d8rstavik (who the people from Forlaget Oktober all really love).<\/p>\n

After a nice reception\/dinner buffet in the museum, the crowd moved on to Bingo’n<\/a>, a club that is hosting a bunch of events at the festival. Last night’s event featured Inger Br\u00e5tveit and Jenny Hval of Rockettothesky<\/a>. They alternated reading (Inger read from her forthcoming, unfinished novel) and singing—when Jenny Hval first started singing I was absolutely blown away; the songs I linked to on her myspace page don’t do her live performance justice. For the most part it was in Norwegian (some of the songs were in English), so I didn’t understand a word, but the crowd seemed appreciative, although nobody could explain to me exactly what went on when I asked after the performance.<\/p>\n

All in all it was a very interesting first day. Today a few Norwegian authors will be presenting their books to us, and then I have a few meetings. I’ll try to post another update tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Today’s “Norway-is-expensive” item: 1 bottle of Heineken costs 61 NOK<\/span>, which is a little more than $12.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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