Shahrazad - Stories for life

Students at Bergeland High School will spend one week creating digital stories.

See the full program here!

 Norwegian and Kurdish writers meet.

Baroj Akrayi, poet and short story writer, lives in Stockholm

Norwegian and Kurdish writers meet.

Baroj Akrayi, poet and short story writer, lives in Stockholm

Baroj Akrayi, poet and short story writer, lives in Stockholm

Nazand Begikhani, poet and researcher at the University of Bristol

The author of bestsellers such as Broken Paradise (Drømmehjerte) and Tarnished Beauty (Senõr Peregrino) visits Stavanger in September to talk about her new book Vigil (Salvadoreña).

The prison officer stares at me. I fear to answer his persistent questions. He wears this horrid, wrinkled face of the man of law, solid, unfeeling. But sometimes I think he feels. He keeps asking me the same question every time he has a chance to talk to me, only when there is no other guard nearby, alone with me, as if for the sole purpose of torturing me.

'Did you really do it?' he wants to know.

'Yes, I did,' I answer.

At Easterine Kire Iralu's new website you'll find her poetry, blog, news about her work, stories for children, and even a shop where you can buy her work.

Last week, "Silenced Voices - Rescued Voices" was officially opened at Nasjonalbiblioteket in Oslo.

Zènia is a journalist, poet and novelist, and the ICORN Guest Writer of Barcelona City of Refuge. He writes in the Kabylic-Berber language of Amazigh, and is a human rights activist.

Nada Yousif is a poet and journalist from Iraq. Her writing centers mainly on women's rights issues and the current socio-political situation in Iraq.

Aziz Sangtarash from Iran, former ICORN Guest Writer of Oslo City of Refuge, is a short story writer, editor and poet.

Short story writer, novelist, teacher and journal editor Musa Mutaev was born in Kyrgyztan, but grew up in Chechnya. He is a former ICORN Guest Writer in Trondheim City of Refuge.

Mansour Koushan comes from Iran where he worked as a theater producer and director, television screenwriter and novelist.

Irakli Kakabadze is a prose writer, performance poet and lyricist. He is also a passionate activist. He comes from Georgia, but currently lives in Ithaca where he teaches at Cornell University.