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KVERNELAND WILL TAKE TO THE STAGE


AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR STEFFEN


AUDIO SUMMIT Boom box


You may have heard that audio is booming. Partially because of the huge leaps in sales in most corners of the globe—even in its most mature market, the US—FBF has opened a


new bespoke audio area, and it has launched its first Audio Summit, a half-day conference with some of the big cheeses in the audiobook world. One of the most interesting speakers may be Michael Krause, Spotify’s m.d. for Central Europe. The


streaming music company has made a concerted move into podcasts in


Today, 11 a.m.


? Guest of Honour Pavilion, Main Stage, Forum, Level 1


GRAPHIC NOVEL SPOTLIGHT


Kverneland tops the bill of graphic artists


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rguably Norway’s greatest graphic novelist, Steffan Kverneland has been practising his craft for a long


time, having first been published in KOnk (Norway’s answer to Mad magazine) in 1980, at age 16. After working for KOnk and a number of underground comix publishers in the 1980s, in 1993 he released his first graphic novel, De knyttede never (The Clenched Fists), based on the 1911 novel by Øvre Richter Frich. Kverneland is best known internationally for two graphic biographies, Olaf G (2004, in collaboration with Lars Fiske) and Munch (2013). Today’s event is the first of four


Kverneland will feature in during FBF, culminating with a Friday night reading from his latest title, Et Selvmord (A Suicide), a memoir in which Kverneland deals with his father’s suicide.


N-WORD AND GENDER GAP


Translators take on brave new words


Today, 12 p.m. ? Weltempfang Stage, Hall 4.1, B81


recent years, while dipping its toe into audiobooks; its future plans may well be a game changer for the industry. Also on hand are Michelle Cobb, executive director of the US’ Audio Publishers Association; Valérie Lévy-Soussan,


founder of the leading French audio specialist AudioLib; and Helena


Gustafsson, head of global publishing at the Nordic audio behemoth Storytel.


Today, 2 p.m.


? Room Dimension (Hall 4.2)


Today, 11.30 a.m.


? Guest of Honour Pavilion, Main Stage, Forum, Level 1


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or over 20 years, Oslo-born and Lillehammer-raised Åsne Seierstad has reported from


some of the most battle-scarred and dangerous places on the planet, including Chechnya, Kosovo and Iraq. Her months in Afghanistan shortly after the 9/11 attacks, which saw the Northern Alliance displace the ruling Taliban, led to her writing her international hit The Bookseller of Kabul. Seierstad will be largely discussing


Kudos to the programmers of the often politically-charged Weltempfang seminar stream for not shying away from thorny issues in these sometimes overly sensitive times. This FBF will see sessions on the crackdown on free speech in Spain, the dire human rights situation in Eritrea and a raſt on various aspects of climate change. An intriguing event today will tackle the diffi-


culties of translating works with language that may be construed as offensive. The panel of three English-to-German translators—Ingo Herzke, Miriam Mandelkow and Andreas Nohl—and moder- ator Mithu M Sanyal will explore the theoretical and practical perspectives: how best to convey Mark Twain’s use of the N-word in Huckleberry Finn? What pronouns can be used in German for non-binary characters? Should a translator impose present-day standards to older works?


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M SANYAL WILL BE ON THE PANEL


AUTHOR MITHU


one of her home-grown books in today’s talk, 2015’s One of Us, which explores the 2011 massacre in which Anders Breivik killed 77 people in Oslo and the island of Utøya—by far the biggest mass shoot- ing and terror attack in Norway’s history. Her book was the basis for the 2018 Netflix film “22 July”. It is a packed FBF for Seierstad,


who will also be speaking at tonight’s Growing on Crisis panel with fellow Norwegian authors (Frankfurt Pavilion, Agora, 7 p.m.), and will be in conversation with journalist Cathrine Sandnes tomorrow (Guest of Honour Pavilion, Stage 2, 4.30 p.m.).


ÅSNE SEIERSTAD IS IN DISCUSSION WITH JOURNALIST MARIA DELIUS


The age at which Steffen Kverneland’s illustration career began, in kOnk magazine


ONE OF US: EXTREMISM AND POLARISATION


Seierstad shares how terror attacks have inspired her work


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