The Seminar programme - Bok & Bibliotek

The Seminar programme
September 23–26 · The Swedish Exhibition Centre · Göteborg · www.goteborg-bookfair.com

Some Prominent Guests at the Göteborg Book Fair over the years
Douglas Adams · Adonis · Ama Ata Aidoo · Boris Akunin · Alaa al-Aswany · Isabel Allende ·
Appignanesi · Ryôji Arai · John Ashbery · Hanan Ashrawi · Nadeem Aslam · Kate Atkinson ·
Bansode · Hoda Barakat · Julian Barnes · Sally Beamish · Antony Beevor · Ari Behn · Gioconda
Hector Bianciotti · Wolf Biermann · Maeve Binchy · Lygia Bojunga · Dermot Bolger · Willy Brandt
Anthony Burgess · John Burnside · Ian Buruma · Meg Cabot · Lydia Cacho · Ernesto Cardenal ·
Chevalier · Noam Chomsky · Hugo Claus · Paulo Coelho · Jackie Collins · Maryse Condé ·
Cunningham · Roald Dahl · Bei Dao · Mahmoud Darwish · Robertson Davies · Régine Deforges
E. L. Doctorow · Milo Dor · Roddy Doyle · Margaret Drabble · Slavenka Drakulić · Vladimir
El-Saadawi · Jan Eliasson · Harlan Ellison · Buchi Emecheta · Michael Ende · Elke Erb ·
· Giorgio Faletti · Susan Faludi · Lilian Faschinger · Sebastian Faulks · Norman G. Finckelstein
JosteinGaarder · Neil Gaiman · John Kenneth Galbraith · Laura Gallego · Janise Galloway · S
Robert Goddard · Richard Goldstone · Adrian Goldsworthy · Nadine Gordimer · Catherine Gower
· Einar Már Guðmundsson · Faïza Guène · Shusha Guppy · Ulla Hahn · Arthur Hailey ·
Oscar Hijuelos · Reginald Hill · Ayaan Hirsi Ali · Shere Hite · Michael Holroyd · Nick Hornby
· Alexandre Jardin · Jevgenij Jevtusjenko · Zhang Jie · Erica Jong · Lídia Jorge · Sandra Kalniete ·
· Imre Kertész · Yasmina Khadra · Elias Khoury · Eeva Kilpi · Jamaica Kincaid · Sarah Kirsch
Kourouma · Tim Krabbé · Hanna Krall · Bruno Kreisky · Jaan Kross · Judith Kuckart · Hari
Doris Lessing · Bernard-Henri Lévy · Roma Ligocka · António Lobo Antunes · Erlend Loe ·
Ana Maria Machado · Michelle Magorian · Claudio Magris · Norman Mailer · Alberto Manguel
Marstein · Don Martin · Tom Maschler · Ángeles Mastretta · Ed McBain · Frank McCourt
Léonora Miano · Hasnaa Mikdashi · Rosalind Miles · Denise Mina · Ana Miranda · Shazia
· Alberto Moravia · Harry Mulisch · Iris Murdoch · Les Murray · Herta Müller ·
· Igor D Novikov · Arne Næss · Christine Nöstlinger · Joyce Carol Oates · Peter O’Donnell
· Orhan Pamuk · Boris Pankin · Inka Parei · Sara Paretsky · Tony Parsons · Glenn Patterson ·
Pilcher · John Pilger · Jayne Anne Phillips · Jordi Porta · Neil Postman · Terry Pratchett ·
· Anne Rambach · Ian Rankin · Valentin Rasputin · Ruth Rendell · Darcy Ribeiro · Alain
· Albie Sachs · Edward W. Said · Johannes Salminen · José Saramago · Josyane Savigneau ·
Ingo Schulze · Helga Schütz · Simon Sebag Montefiore · Maurice Sendak · Vikram Seth ·
Charlene Smith · Krishna Sobti · Philippe Sollers · Wole Soyinka · Art Spiegelman · Mickey Spillane ·
Joanna Trollope · Desmond Tutu · Dubraka Ugrešić · John Updike · Andrew Vachss · Arkadij
Minette Walters · Alan Warner · Sarah Waters · Fay Weldon · Arnold Wesker · Andrew Wheatcroft ·
· Bob Woodward · Georg Henrik von Wright · Harry Wu · Andrew Wylie · Margaret Yorke ·

Ma n a g i n g Di r e c t o r
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An n i c A St A r F A l k
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Su n n y S i d e u P
pr i n t:
Billes, Göteborg,
Sweden, 2010
pa p e r:
co v e r: Arc t i c vo l u M e
Wh i t e 200 G/M 2
Bo d y: Arc t i c vo l u M e
Wh i t e 90 G/M 2
Arc t i c PA P e r
Ad d re S S:
Gö t e B o rG Bo o k FA i r
Se-412 94 Gö t e B o rG
Ph o n e:
+46 31 708 84 00
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+46 31 20 91 03
W W W.G o t e B o rG-
B o o k F A i r.c o M
an international meeting place
T
he 2010 Book Fair, with its focus on
Africa and African literature, offers such
interesting topics as Malian children’s
books, South African satire and poetry,
the struggle for women’s rights in Egypt,
the complexity of the Somalian conflicts,
Togolese literature of exile, Botswanan crime writing, and
picture books from Cameroon, as well as the opportunity to
listen to the brightest literary stars from Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania,
Zimbabwe, Algeria, Morocco, Congo-Brazzaville, and
many other countries. And this is just a few of the exciting
events included in the 2010 African theme.
When we began discussing African literature as a possible
theme about four years ago, we felt slightly overwhelmed by
the concept. Could it really be possible to present an overview
of literature from a continent with 53 countries? Thanks to the
tireless efforts of our main partner, the Nordic Africa Institute,
our doubts were gradually whittled away and replaced with
pride in a program which holds up a multifaceted mirror to
Africa’s literature, and displays it in all its diversity.
But there is, of course, a world outside Africa. This year
we welcome many other writers from the rest of the world,
including Alexander McCall Smith, Erica Jong, Andrew
Taylor, Claude Izner, Kitty Crowther, Catherine Merridale
and Ian Buruma, to name a few. Even then we haven’t mentioned
all the Swedish and Scandinavian writers attending the
Book Fair, but those are not listed in this programme. If you
are interested in learning about Scandinavian authors on a
professional basis, we recommend a visit to the International
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Rights Centre (IRC), where foreign rights for the latest and
most exciting Scandinavian books are negotiated during the
Book Fair from Thursday to Saturday.
Speaking of rights, copyright is one of the current hot topics,
and this year we open the Book Fair with a conference devoted
to it. On Wednesday 22nd September you can hear Santiago
de la Mora, Head of Google Books Europe, talking about his
own and Google’s views on public access and copyright, at our
conference Google and the Future.
Welcome to the Göteborg Book Fair!
An n A FA lc k, m A n A g i n g d i r e c t o r
gu n i l lA SA n d i n, p r o g r A m m e d i r e c t o r
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GöTeBoRG BooK FaiR
a Book Fair for everyone
The Göteborg Book Fair started
out as a trade fair for librarians in
1985.
Nobel Laureate Isaac B Singer was
the most prominent guest and the
An outstanding seminar programme
An exhibition with 895 exhibitors in 2009
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Fair attracted just over 5 000 visitors.
Since then the Fair has developed
into the most important cultural
event in Scandinavia, a forum
of current debate and the foremost
venue for Nordic literature.
However, Nordic literature is not
the sole focus. Every year, the Fair
has a focal theme: this year, Africa
and African literature.
The seminar
programme
– where a thousand thoughts are born
Seminars – 446 of them this year – are the heart
and soul of the Book Fair. Writers, philosophers,
thinkers, politicians and artists from all
over the world meet to talk about books, current
events and issues and the big questions of life in
front of an enthusiastic and knowledgeable public.
Every year the seminar programme has its
own unique focus. To a large extent, this year's
programme will be characterized by Africa and
African literature.
The exhibition
– the happening party for a hundred
thousand book lovers
Imagine four days of controlled chaos, continually
punctuated by many different events, all
happening at the same time. And books, books,
books everywhere! A children’s author talks
about her latest book at one of the 800 exhibitors’
stands, a crime writer is cross-examined
at one of the exhibition’s many stages, a literary
society discusses a new and exciting aspect to
one of the classics, a cartoonist signs albums …
Statistics from
Göteborg Book Fair 2009
• 97 211 visitors
• 895 exhibitors from 24 countries
in an area of 13 600 m2
• 800 writers and lecturers from 27 countries
participated in 448 seminars
• 1284 accredited mass media people
• 46 publishers and agents were represented
at the iRC

Maria Vlaar, the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature (NLPVF), and Ola Wallin, Ersatz, in intensive negotiations
at the IRC.
international Rights Centre
– an opportunity to meet important people
The International Rights
Centre (IRC) is an
important part of the
Göteborg Book Fair. The IRC is
the right place to meet publishers
and agents, particularly from the
Nordic countries. The IRC is
open exclusively for people engaged
in this line of business. It
offers a separate lounge in quiet
surroundings. Here agents and
publishers can display books,
conduct business and close deals.
Staff will be available to assist
you and your guests.
Nordic literature is always an
important and major theme at
the Göteborg Book Fair. This is
why the Fair is the right place to
get to know the Nordic literature,
to meet publishers and to find
the new writers from the Nordic
market. International agents and
publishers also come here to seek
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contacts and to display their publications.
Publishers and agents from all
over the world are invited to the
Centre.
Open Thursday to Saturday
Please note that the IRC is open
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The Göteborg Book Fair is also
open on Sunday.
Reserve a table and rent a shelf
If you are an agent or a pub lisher
you are welcome to reserve a table
for meetings at the IRC. You
can also rent one or several shelves
to show current book titles.
The tables and/or shelves will be
identified with your company’s
name. The IRC will be marketed
by direct mail and regular
advertising in the trade press.
• Contact me for more information:
ewa Bråthe,
international sales manager
Phone +46 31 708 84 11
e-mail: eb@goteborg-bookfair.com
You can also find information
on our website:
www.goteborg-bookfair.com
• Price List
Table: seK 1700 (approx 170 euR)
shelf: seK 1500 (approx 150 euR)
extra shelf: seK 600 (approx 60 euR)
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A taste of
African literature
T
his year's Book Fair offers the
largest, broadest and most comprehensive
presentation of African
contemporary literature ever in Sweden. In
order to ensure that all of Africa is included,
our intention is to present writers from both
large and small countries, and to give both
renowned and less well-known authors an
opportunity to reach public in the Nordic
countries.
The project Africa 2010 was introduced
by the Nordic Africa Institute and has been
developed in close cooperation with Göteborg
Book Fair. Sida has contributed the
majority of the financing, and the Swedish
Arts Council has offered substantial financial
support. Other financiers include the Swedish
Academy and Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation.
Without the great interest and support
received from many other cultural institutions,
organizations, associations, authorities,
African embassies in Stockholm and Swedish
embassies in Africa, and others, this project
would have been impossible to realise.
One can not disseminate African literature
without participation from Swedish and other
Scandinavian publishers. The pub lishers’
investment in translations, publications, new
editions, author events and author seminars
has been crucial for the success of the project.
Equally important has been the contribution
from African publishers, who shared
their knowledge about today’s contemporary
and forthcoming writers.
No book fair can offer a complete presentation
of African literature in only four days. But
with this venture we hope to offer a sample, to
raise awareness, and to identify differences as a
means for diversifying and deepening general
views of African literature. There are many
interesting writers who are eager for a chance
to tell their stories, in such different genres as
non-fiction, popular, literary, young adult and
children’s books. African writing is exciting
and well written and offers a diverse reflection
of the continent’s countries and cultures.
During the four days of the Book Fair over
70 representatives of African literature will
participate in seminars, on stands and in other
venues in Göteborg. The authors will have the
chance to speak with their public at the Book
Fair, to meet the assembled press and above
all to present themselves and their writing in
seminars and conversations. Our hope is that
this will be an introduction to the broad, fantastic,
living and modern establishment that is
African literature today.
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Henning
Mankell
on the AfricA theme 2010
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aFRiCa
– A thousAnd voices, A thousAnd songs …
Some years ago I was sitting in the Mozambican
bush one evening. The starry sky felt very close, the
darkness was like velvet, and I was surrounded by a
strong and steamy heat. Earlier that evening I had
had a long conversation with an African writer who
has been a close friend for nearly thirty years. Now I
thought about what we had discussed. Suddenly it was as though
I heard a murmur of voices rising from out of the darkness. It
merged with the scratch of pencils and the clatter of keyboards.
I thought: everywhere you look on this continent there are many
authors writing what will become the modern story of Africa.
For centuries of colonialism this history has been forbidden,
controlled, degraded. Or else history was recorded by European
writers. But soon the tidal wave will come, the flood of African
writers’ stories about themselves and their own continent.
Finally, one might add. The dark age of colonialism lasted a
long time. But now things have changed.
Colonialism, it should be noted, was only a brutal interruption
in African history. Among the most damaging myths about
Africa, disseminated by alleged scholars to vindicate the colonial
powers, is the lie which says that Africa is a continent without a
written history. This is untrue, although the oral tradition has
always been strong. Just think of Timbuktu! A thousand years
ago it was already one of the strongholds for knowledge, religion
and culture in the world. New manuscripts are still being dug
out of the desert sands, well preserved in such a dry atmosphere.
Of course there is much written history. But 400 years of colonial
domination has left its mark. Now it is high time for the
floodgates to open.
I am old enough to remember what it was like in the 1960s
when Latin American literature began its successful international
march. We were all forced to re-examine our view of what a
person is, and to realize what the “life circumstances” were for
the people of Latin America. It was an exceptional adventure to
experience that.
Now it is time for it to happen again. And this time it is African
literature which once again will force us to re-examine our
ideas of what a person is, and what it means to live in our world,
in our time. The world is once again growing both larger and
smaller. We realize how little we know. But we also realize that
we all belong to the same family.
Great African authors and books already exist. But I can see
the dawn of a great new world literature and I dare to promise
that what we have seen is only a trickle compared with what is to
come.
An entire world literature is being renewed.
Reason enough for a book fair to concentrate on this continent and
its literature.
Of course, there are some people who think it is wrong to let “Africa”
be the theme for a book fair. Africa is too big, they feel, and to do
so exposes both a barely disguised contempt and a poor understanding
of history.
Well. Of course one can take it like that if one wants to. Everything
depends on how it is presented. If one uses the collective title of
“Africa” to show the great extent of this con-
Now the
African
continent has
its chance to
talk – to sing!
– with its own
voices, and
to tell us who
we are
tinent, then one can approach the idea with
the right attitude, and I can only see this as a
wonderful initiative from the Book Fair.
But if one chooses to use “Africa” as an
expression of a simplified view of the black
continent, of one single unit without any distinguishing
differences, from North Africa
to South Africa and from east to west, then
it would naturally be the old colonial attitude.
Then the Book Fair would be acting
as contemporary clones of Cecil Rhodes and
his absurd dream to transform this giant
continent into a single British colony.
What is happening now will change our
views of Africa. The usual lies we are constantly
fed in the media, about the dying
continent where the picture of flies on star-
ving children’s eyes is a symbol for the continent, are fundamentally
wrong. Now we will hear the stories about the living Africa, not the
dying.
But we will also get the opportunity to learn how Africa regards us.
Until now it has been mostly us doing the talking. Now the African
continent has its chance to talk – to sing! – with its own voices, and
to tell us who we are, how we have been seen throughout history, and
how we are regarded today.
That is why I welcome this Book Fair with Africa as its theme. As
long as it offers what it should: a contradictory, bustling picture of
not one Africa but a thousand.
Then we will learn what we do not know.
Not just about Africa, but also about ourselves.
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African literature has never been so
comprehensively presented in Sweden
before this year's Book Fair! Read on
for a taste of all the writers, poets,
illustrators and others who are
taking part in Africa in focus at the
Book Fair 2010.
Tahar Ben Jelloun ousmane diarra sihem
aFRiCa
maR/FRa
mal
Bensedrine
Fr 15.00
Th 13.00
Tun
Fr 12.00
– FOCUS On a COntinent
denis mukwege
Con-Kin
sa 16.00
Chris abani
niG/usa
Fr 11.00, Fr 17.00
ayaan Hirsi ali
som/usa
Fr 13.00
Petina Gappah
Zim/sWi
Th 16.00, Fr 10.00,
sa 10.00
shailja Patel
Ken
Fr 11.00, Fr 13.00,
Fr 17.00
sefi atta
niG/usa
Fr 17.00, su 13.00
Véronique Tadjo
CiV/Rsa
sa 11.00, su 13.00
ondjaki
anG
sa 10.00, sa 15.00
lesley Beake
Rsa
Th 13.00, sa 16.00
Jonathan shapiro
Rsa
Fr 12.00, Fr 14.00,
sa 13.00

nadine Gordimer
Rsa
sa 14.00
nawal el saadawi
eGY
sa 12.00, su 13.00
alain mabanckou
Con-BRa/usa
Th 11.00, Th 12.00,
Th 15.00
nuruddin Farah
som/Rsa
Th 11.00, Fr 16.00,
sa 11.00
ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Ken/usa
sa 10.00
mia Couto
moZ
Fr 12.00, sa 15.00
irene sabatini
Zim
sa 10.00, sa15.00
lubna ahmad
al-Hussein
sud
Th 14.00
• Gabeba Baderoon
Rsa/usa su 10.30
• Wumi Raji
niG su 10.30
• Mpho Tutu
Rsa Fr 14.00
• Geraldine Whiskey
Monama
Rsa Fr 09.30
• Elieshi Lema
Tan Th 17.00
Fr 14.00
sa 14.00
• Dominique
Mwankumi
Con-Kin Fr 14.00
• Eyoum Nganguè
CmR Fr 14.00
• Jay Heale
Rsa Th 13.00
• Meshack Asare
GHa Th 13.00
• Fatou Keïta
CiV Th 13.00
• Christian Epanya
CmR su 13.00
• Piet Grobler
Rsa su 13.00
• John Kilaka
Tan su 13.00
• Sindiwe Magona
sYa Fr 16.00
su 11.00
• Ismail Serageldin
eGY Th 16.00
• Maaza Mengiste
eTH/usa Fr 17.00
sa 15.00
• Miguel Gullander
anG/PoR/sWe
Fr 17.00
sa 15.00
• Paulina Chiziane
moR sa 15.00
• Lesego
Rampolokeng
Rsa Th 13.00
Fr 13.00
• Yaba Badoe
GHa su 11.00
• Monica Arac
de Nyeko
uGa su 11.00
su 14.00
• Doreen Baingana
uGa su 11.00
su 14.00
• Helon Habila
niG/usa Th 12.00
Fr 13.00
• Kopano Matlwa
Rsa Th 12.00
sa 10.00
• Tolu Ogunlesi
niG/GBR Th 13.00
Th 17.00
sa 10.00
• Biyi Bandele
niG/GBR Fr 13.00
sa 10.00
sa 12.30
sa 14.00
• Deon Meyer
Rsa Fr 17.00
sa 12.00
• Edem Awumey
ToG/Can Th 15.00
• Steeves Sassene
CmR/sWe Th 15.00
• Chenjerai Hove
Zim/usa Fr 12.00
• Philo Ikonya
Ken/noR Fr 12.00
• Ingrid Le Roux
Rsa sa 16.00
• Wambui Mwangi
Ken Fr 11.00
• Binyavanga
Wainaina
Ken Th 12.00
Fr 11.00
• Billy Kahora
Ken Th 17.00
Fr 11.00
• Hilda Twongyeirwe
uGa Th 17.00
su 14.00
• Maïssa Bey
alG Th 16.00
• Boubacar Boris
Diop
sen sa 11.00
sa 14.00
• Unity Dow
BoT Fr 16.00
sa 13.00
sa 16.00
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TORSDAG 24 september
WednesdaY 22th september
▼ Conference
go o g l e A n d t h e Fu t u r e
digitalization poses an enormous challenge for
three of the pillars of public life and democracy:
Books (literature), libraries (knowledge) and
the Press (journalism). The challenge is perhaps
most obvious when examining the operations
and business model of the american company
Google. such initiatives as making all literature
accessible to everyone opens dizzying vistas of
possibility, but can also lead to conflicts with
copyright holders. Google is growing as a place
to advertise, at the expense of the traditional
media and without the need to finance qualified
journalists. What implications does this have
for the third estate’s role of investigation and
information?
We have invited santiago de la mora, strategic
account manager for Google search in
europe, africa and the middle east, to give both
his and the company view on these important
issues. His talk will be followed by a conversation
between him and a panel including eva
swartz Grimaldi, managing director of natur &
Kultur, lars ilshammar, director of the labour
movement archives and library, and other representatives
of affected industries, including
authors, academics and representatives from
political parties. There will also be an oppor-
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santiago de la mora, Google Books europe
tunity for the public to comment and pose
questions.
The conference is part of a project initiated
by the cultural journalist mikael löfgren and
nätverkstan Kultur i Väst. The first steps in the
project included a report by löfgren with the
title Digitalisation and Copyright in the Cultural
sector and a conference at the national library
in stockholm, called The Public Sector and
Copyright.
swedish exibition & congress centre 13.00–17.00
Programme:
13.00–14.15 introduction: mikael löfgren
Keynote speaker:
santiago de la mora, Google
14.15–14.45 Coffee
14.45–16.45 questions and comments
from the panel and the public
16.45–17.00 Representatives for
swedish political parties
Comments
Concluding remarks
17.00 Reception and
opportunity to mingle
Participants: Santiago de la Mora, Head of
Google Books europe, Eva Swartz Grimaldi,
managing director, natur & Kultur, Lars Ilshammar,
director of the labour movement archives
and library, authors, academics and politicians,
as well as representatives from the affected industries,
cultural institutions and the media.
Moderator: Mikael Löfgren, journalist.
Language: english
Arranged by: nätverkstan Kultur i Väst and
Göteborg Book Fair, with support from the Foundation
for the Culture of the Future, Göteborg &
Co, stampen and Region Västra Götaland.
To apply: www.bokmassan.se/program

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FREDAG
09.15–10.45 Code To0915.2
Jagdish S. Gundara
Intercultural education in
contemporary societies
The role of law, state policies and civic engagement
Intercultural education presents a major challenge
to most of the contemporary societies. This
is because of the presence of historical as well as
new aspects of social diversity. Some of the major
challenges need to be faced by public and social
policy systems within most politics. The education
systems are part of this larger policy framework.
Some of this work is supported by the international
standard setting legal instruments as well as the
modern constitutions of many democratic states.
These include dealing with matters of human and
citizenship rights, especially for states which are
members of international organisations and regional
bodies like the Council of Europe which have
issued many directives and advisory reports on
education. Professor Jagdish S. Gundara, Professor
Emeritus, Institute of Education, University of
London, UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Studies
and the President of International Association For
Intercultural Education, will address some of the
issues which relate to the secular and the sacred,
which have exercised both political and educational
systems and presented many schools, teachers,
students and communities with serious challenges.
Language: English
In coop with Västra Götalandsregionen, Nätverket för interkulturell pedagogik
11.00–11.45 Code To1100.4
Nuruddin Farah
Crossing borders
Borders as a symbol and a reality
On the African continent borders are unreal realities
created by the colonial powers drawing straight lines
across the map of Africa. Such borders are the starting
point for a conversation between publicist Arne
Ruth and Somalian author Nuruddin Farah. Ever
since the Somalian regime sentenced Farah to death
in his absence in 1976, he has crossed countless borders
and refers to himself a citizen of the world. His
home country is his writing, and no border can keep
him away from his lifelong narrative about his devastated
fatherland, Somalia. His finely tuned prose
pushes conventional boundaries in its treatment of
gender, tradition, law, power and social issues.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010
11.00–11.45 Code To1100.6
Judith Torney-Purta
A cross-cultural perspective on civic
engagement and intercultural attitudes
among young people
How do young people develop engagement with
their political and cultural communities, support
for the rights of cultural groups, and the ability to
deliberate community issues? Multi-method studies
in political socialization, civic engagement, youth
participatory action, human rights education and
cultural psychology provides insight. The presentation
will also summarize survey responses from early
adolescents from more than thirty countries (including
Sweden) tested in the IEA Civic Education Studies
of knowledge and attitudes (1999 and 2009). It
will also review observational research from several
countries. The role of cultural artifacts such as folk
music in these processes will be considered. Judith
Torney-Purta, Ph.D., Professor of human development,
University of Maryland.
Language: English
In coop with Västra Götalandsregionen, Nätverket för interkulturell pedagogik
11.00–11.20 Code To1100.10
Alain Mabanckou
French literature – renewed by Africa
The prizewinning Congolese writer Alain
Mabanckou talks about his novel Memoirs of a Porcupine,
and his relationship with French literature,
with his Swedish publisher Svante Weyler. The
book is now available in Swedish translation.
Language: English
In coop with Weyler förlag
12.00–12.45 Code To1200.3
Helon Habila, Kopano Matlwa, Alain Mabanckou
“A special hint for you: sunsets and famines
are good.”
The quotation comes from a satirical article by
Binyavanga Wainaina – How to write about Africa
– which pokes fun at the sweeping statements about
the continent. Africa is still seen by many in the western
world as either a dark and destitute continent
or a magical land of fables and dance. Wainaina’s
article attracted attention and sparked discussion in
many places. Now Europeans have a chance to hear
several African voices express their opinion of the
Western view of Africa. Helon Habila from Nigeria,
Kopano Matlwa from South Africa and Alain
Mabanckou from Congo-Brazzaville discuss and
talk about their own experiences.
Moderator: Marika Griehsel, freelance journalist,
former Africa correspondent for SVT.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010, Tranan Publishing House, Karavan, Tidskriften 10TAL,
Swedish Institute and Weyler förlag
Judith Torney-Purta
alain mabanckou
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Catherine Merridale
The truth about the Red Army
Approximately 8.6 million Soviet soldiers – nearly
a third of everyone who served in the Red Army –
lost their lives in the Second World War. Red Army
soldiers were nicknamed Ivan, and the victory over
the Nazis cost them dearly. But after the war Stalin
chose to conceal their hardships. Instead, the myth
of the well trained patriotic soldier, who fought for
his country, Communism and Stalin, was carefully
cultivated. In Ivan’s War: The Red Army, 1939–1945,
the prizewinning author and professor Catherine
Merridale uncovers a different reality. Interviews
with Russian war veterans and material taken from
previously closed archives show that the typical
soldier was a young uneducated peasant forced to
join the military, where he survived an average of 24
hours when the battle was at its height.
Moderator: Peter Whitebrook, journalist.
Language: English
In coop with Historiska Media
13.00–13.45 Code To1300.5
Where are Africa’s books for children?
Pictures of Africa 1
What are they about and who reads them? Meet
four authors from southern and western Africa in a
conversation with the South African children’s book
expert Jay Heale about the state of children’s and
young adult books, now and in the future. Participants:
Meshack Asare, Ghana, Lesley Beake, South
Africa, Ousmane Diarra, Mali and Fatou Keïta,
Côte d’Ivoire.
Language: English
In coop with Children Africa 2010, The Secret Garden Network, Afrikultur, Trasten/
Tranan Publishing House and the Association of French Teachers, Stockholm
13.00–13.45 Code To1300.7
Lesego Rampolokeng, Tolu Ogunlesi
LAND OF WORDS – popular culture, tradition,
modernism
Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet, musician, playwright
and spoken word poet. As one critic commented:
“Reading him means discovering a new
territory of language, just like entering a new physical
territory. You don’t escape unscathed.” He is a
keen observer of power and injustice in South Africa
and worldwide. He began to write as a 14 year old,
gathering impressions everywhere from the streets
of Soweto, the music of the Caribbean, Apollinaire,
Pasolini, Artaud, writers who understand that words
and art can shake up the foundations of society. He
meets the young Nigerian poet Tolu Ogunlesi. The
moderator is Gunnar D Hansson, poet and associate
professor of comparative literature at the University
of Gothenburg.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010
14.00–14.45 Code To1400.9
Lubna Ahmad al-Hussein
When trousers are a crime
On the 3rd July in 2009, Lubna Ahmad al-Hussein
was arrested by the police at a restaurant in Khartoum.
Her “crime”: she was dressed in trousers. The
Sudanese law punishes this “obscene act” with forty
lashes and a fine. Every day women in Sudan are
sentenced for offences against paragraph 152 in the
penal code. Lubna Ahmad al-Hussein decided to
protest, for the sake of all women, and to publicize
her case worldwide. Forty lashes for a pair of trousers
is a personal testimony which offers a history of
a country weighed down by the double burden of
Sharia law and the old traditions of the country. A
country where female circumcision is common and
where the guards of morality stand watch on every
street corner.
Moderator: Dilsa Demirbag-Sten, journalist.
Language: Arabic translated into Swedish
In coop with Sekwa
14.00–14.45 Code To1400.10
Gundega Repše, Ieva Lešinska
Back to the Future
In Gundega Repše’s novel Alvas kliedziens [The
Scream of Tin], based on her own school day diaries,
and in Pauls Bankovkis’ short story collection
Skola [School], the authors go back to the future.
That is to say, they return to the utopia of Soviet occupied
Riga in the 1970s. Both books are published
in Swedish translation this autumn and offer a link
to the novels of Herta Müller and Sofi Oksanen.
They provide detailed insights into Eastern European
realities, as yet are unknown in the west. Such
insights are crucial for the creation of a European
intellectual equilibrium. But the memory of this
“future” is in the process of being lost even in the
affected countries. Gundega Repše and the cultural
journalist Ieva Lešinska discuss different aspects of
these issues.
Moderator: Juris Kronbergs, author.
Language: English
In coop with Latvian Literature Centre
Children africa 2010
• The secret Garden is a network
founded seven years ago in order to
promote children's literature from africa,
asia, latin america and the middle east in
sweden. This year the
focus is on africa and
20 authors, illustrators,
storytellers and others
are invited to the
20
Göteborg Book Fair. in
honour of the occasion,
a collection of articles,
essays, poems, portraits and many pictures
will be published in a booklet entitled The
Secret Garden – Africa. The international
library, iBBY sweden, The swedish library
association and the World library at the
solidarity House in stockholm are the
current active members of the network.

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Edem Awumey, Steeves Sassene, Françoise Sule,
Christophe Premat
Y-a-t-il une mémoire africaine?
Littérature et slam avec Edem Awumey et Steeves Sassene
Se souvenir ne signifie pas reconstruire le temps mais
le structurer. C’est grâce au mot écrit qu’on peut reformer
un récit et construire une identité nouvelle.
Comment se forge une conscience à travers la voix
narratrice? Est-ce un avantage, ou peut-être même
une nécessité pour le processus de mémoire de se
retrouver en exil ou à distance? Intervenants: Edem
Awumey, écrivain né au Togo demeurant au Québec,
lauréat du Grand Prix de l’Afrique Noire 2005
pour son roman Port-Mélo, Steeves Sassene, rappeur
camerounais, fondateur du groupe Negrissim,
installé à Stockholm, Françoise Sule, enseignante de
français et présidente de l’Institut d’Etudes Canadiennes
de l’Université de Stockholm, Christophe
Premat, attaché linguistique à l’Institut français et
l’ambassade de France.
Language: français
En collaboration avec L’Institut français, l’Institut d’Etudes Canadiennes de
l’université de Stockholm, AEFS/FLF (Association des enseignants de français en
Suède), et AIEQ (Association Internationale des Etudes Québécoises)
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Kitty Crowther, Ulla Rhedin
The master of lines
Winner of the ALMA Prize 2010
The Belgian illustrator Kitty Crowther is this year’s
winner of the world’s largest prize for children’s and
young adult literature: The Astrid Lindgren Memorial
Award (ALMA). The prize honours work at the
highest artistic level, in the humanist spirit of Astrid
Lindgren. The jury granted the award to Kitty
Crowther because of the way in which she creates,
transforms and renews stories within picture books.
In her world the door between fantasy and reality
remains wide-open. Crowther discusses her work
and her influences with Ulla Rhedin, researcher on
picture books.
Moderator: Johanna Lindbäck, journalist.
Language: English
In coop with The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) and Rabén & Sjögren
15.00–15.45 Code To1500.7
Sofi Oksanen
The creations of a dictatorship
Sofi Oksanen was awarded the 2010 Nordic
Council’s Literature Prize for her book Purge. As in
her first book Stalin’s Cows, she details the volatile
and cruel history of modern Estonia. She talks here
with Maarja Talgre, a Swedish-Estonian writer and
cultural journalist, on how people and human relations
are formed and deformed, and how dictatorships
ruthlessly transform societies.
Language: English
In coop with Kraft&Kultur and Albert Bonniers Förlag
15.00–15.45 Code To1500.8
Fatmagül Berktay
Cultural and religious particularism cannot be
used as an excuse for violating women’s rights
The dissonance between women’s rights and some
religious and/or cultural practices and traditions
reflects itself not only within religious contexts but
within the secular frames of nation–states as well.
The states which prohibit cultural practices such
as suttee, honour killings, stoning, etc. may at the
same time show selective indifference of varying
degrees in practice by using the excuse of cultural
particularism or religious right. The notion of cultural
and religious rights can often reinforce the distinction
between public and private worlds to the
disadvantage of women: culture and religion can be
seen as spheres protected from legal regulations even
though they allow oppression of women by men. By
exploring the link between gender and education we
can also examine the dialectic relations between the
public and the private spheres. Fatmagül Berktay,
professor of political science at Istanbul University,
claims that the state often reduces the treatment
of gender issues to the provision of increased delivery
of schooling and avoids the transformation of
gender biased content of knowledge. In this respect
non-formal education outside the public school system
addressing adult women can be a powerful vehicle
for women’s empowerment. This paper while
challenging the concept of culture as free from gendered
power relations, will also dwell on the experience
of Women’s Centers in Southeastern Turkey,
as a strong example of empowering informal adult
education.
Language: English
In coop with Västra Götalandsregionen, Nätverket för interkulturell pedagogik
15.00–15.45 Code To1500.9
Lennart Hagerfors, Alain Mabanckou
Congo. Which Congo?
Lennart Hagerfors grew up in Congo-Brazzaville
and has just published Mannen på ön [The man on
the island] a novel which takes place in the early days
of independence in Congo. He speaks here with
Alain Mabanckou, Congo-Brazzaville’s representative
in world literature, whose prizewinning novel
Memoirs of a Porcupine is newly published in Swedish
translation.
Moderator: Svante Weyler, publisher.
Language: English
In coop with Weyler förlag
Fatmagül Berktay
sofi oksanen
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Maïssa Bey, Petina Gappah
Reflections
When Maïssa Bey started school, Algeria was still
a French colony and schools taught French, which
became her writing language although she normally
speaks Arabic. The novel Bleu, Blanc, Vert, pub lished
now in Swedish translation, mirrors the conflict of
her own generation between tradition and modernity,
and how the fresh belief in the future after independence
in 1962 was obscured by the terrorist
acts of the 1990s. Petina Gappah from Zimbabwe
takes the reader to another country in crisis, in her
acclaimed debut book An Elegy for Easterly. In their
striving for a life of dignity, people continue to stubbornly
pretend that everything is as normal even
while the country collapses around them. Both Bey
and Gappah reflect the great in the small, society in
family life, the global in the local, and power and
politics in the struggles of everyday life.
Moderator: Mikela Lundahl, lecturer in the history
of ideas, School of Global Studies, University of
Gothenburg.
Language: English and French (translated)
In coop with Africa 2010, Tranan Publishing House and Albert Bonniers Förlag
16.00–16.45 Code To1600.2
Ismail Serageldin
Bibliotheca Alexandrina – a sensation
In the city founded by Alexander the Great, the
Bibliotheca Alexandrina – the intellectual centre of
the ancient world for six centuries – was founded
in 288 BC. Today the Library of Alexandria commemorates
the Library of ancient days, as well as acting
as a modern centre both for scholarship and to
further dialogue between cultures and peoples. The
director of the Library, Dr Ismail Serageldin, talks
about how one can drive an inheritance of openness
and intellectual creativity further, and discusses the
importance of the library for culture, research and
free speech with Carl Tham, Ambassador.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010
16.00–16.45 Code To1600.9
Richard Dowden
Where is Africa headed?
Richard Dowden has lived and travelled in Africa for
three decades and constantly listened, learned and
valued the knowledge encountered there. Over the
years, he has not only met many political leaders, but
also been eyewitness to many dramatic events. Now
Dowden has written Africa: Altered States, Ordinary
Miracles, a modern contemporary story about the continent,
which places people and events in their historical
and political context. The book also explains the
background to both the wars and catastrophes suffered
in Africa, and the progress achieved. Richard Dowden
is Director of the Royal Africa Society, and has been a
correspondent for The Times and The Independent,
and Africa Editor for The Economist. Dowden talks
with, Marika Griehsel, freelance journalist, former
Africa correspondent for SVT.
Language: English
In coop with Leopard förlag
16.30–16.50 Code To1630.5
Charlotte Rosen Svensson
Don't let your dictionary gather dust on the
shelf!
Modern English dictionaries are more than just
words. They can include pictures, video clips and
sound, and they’re available on computers and telephones
as well as your shelf. Find out how they can
help you with pronunciation, writing, and even to
understand YouTube. Participant: Charlotte Rosen
Svensson, English language consultant for Pearson
Longman ELT.
Language: English
In coop with Utbildningsstaden/The Book Corner and Pearson Longman ELT
17.00–18.00 Code To1700.8
Advocates of the written word
Local book publishing on the African continent
is struggling. Who is buying books? How are they
distributed both within Africa and to the rest of
the world? Could digital developments provide a
solution? What might that mean for writers, journals,
networks, book publishers and readers? These
are just some of the many questions which will be
discussed by Akoss Ofori-Mensah of Sub-Saharan
Publishers in Ghana, Mary Jay of the African Book
Collective in England, Hilda Twongyeirwe of Femrite
in Uganda, Elieshi Lema, author and publisher
from Tanzania, Yohannes Gebregeorgis of the
reading movement Ethiopia Reads, Billy Kahora of
the arts journal Kwani? in Kenya, and Tolu Ogunlesi,
an author from Nigeria.
Moderator: Svante Weyler, publisher.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010, Karavan, Bokspindeln, Tidskriften 10TAL, Swedish Institute
and Tranan Publishing House
“Fantastic! The Göteborg Book
Fair is designed for the people,
concentrating on the public’s
needs, friendly and personal.”
desmond Tutu, south africa, 2007

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Geraldine Whiskey Monama
The storytelling librarian
Geraldine Whiskey Monama from South Africa has
taken part in several storytelling festivals in Sweden.
Monama tells stories and talks about her project to
stamp out illiteracy in South Africa.
Language: English
In coop with Vombat förlag
10.00–10.45 Code Fr1000.10
Petina Gappah
Dreams and realities in Zimbabwe
A woman in a small village in Zimbabwe is surrounded
by a throng of children but longs for a baby of
her own. A politician’s widow stands silently at her
husband’s grave and watch his colleagues lower an
empty coffin. Petina Gappah’s characters have the
same dreams and desires as anyone, but they live in
a world where a loaf of bread costs a fortune. A country
which has had only four presidents in the past
hundred years and where people know exactly what
will be in the country’s only newspaper, because the
news is only allowed to be presented positively. In
the short story collection An Elegy for Easterly, Petina
Gappah focuses on the political absurdities that
affect a changing collection of characters struggling
under Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe.
Moderator: Anna Koblanck, journalist.
Language: English
In coop with Albert Bonniers Förlag
11.00–11.45 Code Fr1100.1
Chris Abani
Ethics of narrative
The Nigerian writer Chris Abani was forced into
exile in 1991. Today he is a professor at the University
of California in Riverside. Three of his highly
acclaimed novels – GraceLand, Becoming Abigail
and the newly published Song for Night – are translated
into Swedish. His stories contain violence and
tenderness, cruelty and humour, memories and
dreams, a lust for life and the art of survival. He
never moralises or speculates, but his creativity and
sharpness of his language prove that literature can
achieve more than the journalist’s stories and pictures
can ever hope to.
Moderator: Mikela Lundahl, lecturer in the history
of ideas, School of Global Studies, University of
Gothenburg.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010 and Celanders förlag
11.00–11.45 Code Fr1100.9
Wambui Mwangi, Binyavanga Wainaina, Shailja Patel, Billy
Kahora
Kenya, independence and literature
How can the belief in democracy and equality be
sustained in a country where literature is regularly
confiscated, opportunities to publish are extremely
limited, and oppression of women is not openly discussed
or acknowledged? Four committed Kenyan
writers – Wambui Mwangi, Binyavanga Wainaina,
Shailja Patel and Billy Kahora, who together produce
the influential eastern African magazine Kwani?
– discuss the importance of literature for Kenya’s
future.
Moderator: Madeleine Grive, editor in chief of Tidskriften
10TAL.
Language: English
In coop with Tidskriften 10TAL and Swedish Institute
12.00–12.45 Code Fr1200.1
Chenjerai Hove, Philo Ikonya, Sihem Bensedrine, Jonathan
Shapiro
“My Dictator and I”
Chenjerai Hove has lived with and related to “his”
dictator ever since Robert Mugabe came to power
in Zimbabwe in 1980. Hove was forced to flee his
homeland in 2001, and is now writing an autobiographical
account of his complex feelings for Mugabe
from his exile in Miami. Distinguished writers
Philo Ikonya, Kenya, and Sihem Bensedrine,
Tunisia, have also recently had to leave their native
countries and currently reside in ICORN safe havens
in Oslo and Barcelona. What makes writers a
target of censorship and persecution in today’s Africa,
and how can writers counter oppressive regimes,
from within or from positions of exile? The panel is
joined by prolific South African cartoonist Zapiro
(Jonathan Shapiro), who has recently been sued by
president Jacob Zuma on charges of defamation, because
of a cartoon drawn by Zapiro in 2008.
Moderator: Stefan Helgesson, author and lecturer
in English.
Language: English
In coop with ICORN, Shahrazad and Africa 2010
“i find the Book Fair very
stimulating and i think the
swedes at heart are mad.
That’s excellent!”
derek Walcott, st lucia, 1993
Geraldine Whiskey monama
Wambui mwangi
shailja Patel
Chris abani
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Mia Couto, Henning Mankell
Every writer is a continent
“My view of literature is that it is a universal asset
common to all people. All writers create their own
continent, which they carry within themselves.
There isn’t an author in the world who hasn’t been
forced to create his own identity from all the other
possible identities, and all of them, everywhere, are
their own countries, made up of several different
nations.” The quote comes from Mia Couto, the
leading author from Portuguese-speaking Africa.
He speaks here with author Henning Mankell on
the differences between European and African narrative
art. Moderator: Dan Israel, publisher.
Language: English
In coop with Leopard förlag
12.00–12.45 Code Fr1200.9
Ian Buruma, KG Hammar
God – democrat or dictator?
Religion is once again on the rise in Europe.
However, radical Muslims have created a fear that
Islam will undermine western democracies. The
tension between religious and secular authorities, in
spite of general agreement that these can co-exist,
feeds this fear. In his book Taming the Gods: Religion
and Democracy on Three Continents, author and
journalist Ian Buruma compares the relationship
between church and state in Europe and the US –
as well as examining how the religious leadership
functions in China and Japan. Buruma’s book The
Wages of Guilt, a book about how Germany and
Japan have come to terms with their roles in the
Second World War, has recently been published in
Swedish translation. Ian Buruma and the former
Archbishop KG Hammar consider whether religion
helps or hinders democracy.
Moderator: Arne Ruth, publicist.
Language: English
In coop with Natur & Kultur and Behold Man/Church of Sweden
13.00–13.45 Code Fr1300.3
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A Somalian family fate
In Nomad, Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes of the difficulties
faced by Muslims who immigrate to the western
world, and of the suspicion which falls on Muslims,
who are seen as terrorists or collaborators. The book
stems from her own experiences, and she is very
open when she describes her own family’s fate. One
family member has AIDS, another has been accused
of murder and a third sends all the money he earns
to his relations in Somalia. They all live in the west,
but their hearts are elsewhere. They dream of a Somalia
which has never existed. Will they ever settle
down in their new homelands? It seems unlikely. Or
is there a possibility of meeting halfway? In conversation
with Dilsa Demirbag-Sten, author and journalist.
Moderator: Qaisar Mahmood, author.
Language: English
In coop with Albert Bonniers Förlag
13.00–13.45 Code Fr1300.5
Helon Habila, Biyi Bandele, Shailja Patel,
Lesego Rampolokeng
What is orature?
Oral storytelling is both ancient and contemporary,
local and universal. The story is created at a certain
moment, which means it constantly changes. It is
literature living in symbiosis with music and drama
and mime and today with performance, stand-up
and rap, as well. In Africa orature is still present.
Does that imply that the African writers of today are
especially conscious of the oral tradition? Do they
care about its survival? Do they take advantage of it
– or do they keep a distance? The four authors who
meet in this discussion are Helon Habila and Biyi
Bandele from Nigeria, Shailja Patel from Kenya and
Lesego Rampolokeng from South Africa.
Moderator: Leif Lorentzon, Ph.D., African literature
studies.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010, Tranan Publishing House, Tidskriften 10TAL, Swedish
Institute and Leopard förlag
14.00–14.45 Code Fr1400.1
Mpho Tutu
Kindness and the will
Kindness and the desire to create a better world are
programmed into all people. That is the message
in Mpho Tutu’s book Made for Goodness: And Why
This Makes All the Difference, which she has written
together with her father, Archbishop and Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu. Mpho Tutu
was born in South Africa and trained as a priest
in the Episcopal Church in the US, where she now
lives. She has worked with vulnerable children in
Massachusetts, with rape victims in South Africa,
and with refugees, primarily from South Africa and
Namibia, in New York. In recent years Mpho Tutu
has also devoted a great deal of time to The Tutu Institute
for Prayer and Pilgrimage, an institute which
she founded. A conversation about goodness with
Marika Griehsel, freelance journalist, former Africa
correspondent for SVT.
Language: English
In coop with Libris, Behold Man/Church of Sweden, and Tidningen Dagen
“it has become a habit to
come here. i have made it
a point that my books are
published in swedish around
the Göteborg Book Fair.”
orhan Pamuk, Turkey, 2006

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Elieshi Lema, Dominique Mwankumi, Eyoum Nganguè,
Jonathan Shapiro
The graphic victory march
Pictures of Africa 2
Satires, comics and graphic novels are gaining in
popularity both online and in print all over Africa.
But where does the future lie for them? What stories
do they want to and can they convey? What is
their attitude to society and other literature? Could
they offer a way to reach younger readers and encourage
them to read? Meet four writers and illustrators
with different ways of expressing themselves, from
different parts of Africa: Elieshi Lema, Tanzania,
Dominique Mwankumi, Congo-Kinshasa, Eyoum
Nganguè, Cameroon, and Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro)
from South Africa.
Moderator: Joanna Rubin Dranger, Swedish illustrator
and author.
Language: English
In coop with Children Africa 2010, The Secret Garden Network, Africa Groups of
Sweden, Afrikultur and Swedish Institute
15.00–15.45 Code Fr1500.2
Tahar Ben Jelloun
L’histoire des femmes marocaines
La critique du fanatisme religieux, de la corruption
et du mépris des femmes ainsi que le problème
d’identité de l’exilé sont souvent présents dans
l’œuvre de Tahar Ben Jelloun. Son nouveau livre Sur
ma mère est une description émouvante de sa mère et
en même temps de la situation des femmes au Maroc
pendant le vingtième siècle. En la regardant, Tahar
Ben Jelloun ne voit pas seulement sa mère vieillissante,
mais aussi toute une destinée humaine, une
destinée de femme. Né au Maroc en 1944, Tahar
Ben Jelloun vit à Paris depuis 1971. En 1985, il est
devenu célèbre avec L’Enfant de sable et il a obtenu
le prix Goncourt en 1987 avec La Nuit sacrée. Ben
Jelloun écrit en français, mais l’arabe est sa langue
maternelle. Une quinzaine de ses livres est traduite
en suédois.
Moderatrice: Monica Malmström, journaliste.
Language: français, interprété en suédois
In coop with Alfabeta
15.00–15.45 Code Fr1500.12
Brendan O’Neill, Boris Benulic
Make your footprint bigger – save the planet
Among those who agree on the damage being done
to the planet by human impact, there are two opposing
sides in the debate about how to solve the
problem. One side campaigns for forced reduction
of carbon emissions through market regulations.
The other advocates concentrating on further
technical development and economic growth. Journalist
Brendan O’Neill has driven this debate in the
London-based online magazine Spiked. O’Neill and
Boris Benulic, MD for Kraft&Kultur, talk openly
and frankly about this controversial topic.
Language: English
In coop with Kraft&Kultur
15.30–15.50 Code Fr1530.1
Alexander McCall Smith
An internet serial
Alexander McCall Smith lets his readers decide
how the story will unfold. The author of The No. 1
Ladies’ Detective Agency has published an “online novel”
on telegraph.co.uk, about the people who live
in Corduroy Mansions in London. He talks about
his contract with his readers, and the sources of his
inspiration. In conversation with Marika Hemmel,
journalist.
Language: English
In coop with Damm Förlag/Forma Books
16.00–16.45 Code Fr1600.2
Nuruddin Farah, Richard Dowden, Unity Dow, Anders
Wejryd
Africa – a reflection on the reality
Poverty and conflict dominate our images of the
African continent. Where can we find a true picture
of modern Africa? How can we broaden our perspectives?
Participants: Nuruddin Farah, internationally
known Somalian writer, Richard Dowden, Director
of the Royal African Society, Unity Dow, Judge in
the High Court in Botswana and crime writer, and
Anders Wejryd, Archbishop of Uppsala and Primate
of the Church of Sweden.
Moderator: Marika Griehsel, freelance journalist,
former Africa correspondent for SVT.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010, Albert Bonniers Förlag, Leopard förlag and Behold Man/
Church of Sweden
16.00–16.45 Code Fr1600.5
Steinar Bragi
Iceland just before the crash
A young woman returns to Iceland after living in
New York, to find that her homeland has changed.
Seafarers and fishermen have been replaced by
businessmen and dealers. Under the seemingly
prosperous society’s gleaming surface lurks a surrealistic
and nightmarish existence. Icelander Steinar
B r a g i s’ fifth novel Women offers a portrait of his
homeland just before the crash, a neo-liberal world
where everything has its price and where women
are treated as commodities. Bragi, who was born in
Reykjavik in 1975, debuted in 1998 with his poetry
collection Black Hole. He speaks with Swedish journalist
Kristofer Lundström about his latest book
and about the madness which reigned in Iceland before
the economic meltdown in October 2008.
Language: English
In coop with Natur & Kultur
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Sindiwe Magona, Gunilla Lundgren
Dear friends – in Langa and Rinkeby
What do children in the South African town of
Langa and the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby have
in common? For 15 years a reading promotion project
for schools and children’s groups in the two
areas has asked the question and received many surprising
answers. The book Dear Friends, published
simultaneously by New African Books and Tranan
Publishing House, shares the story of the project.
The authors and reading promoters Sindiwe
M a g o n a , South Africa, and Gunilla Lundgren,
Sweden, talk about an unusually successful cooperative
venture.
Moderator: Birgitta Fransson, cultural journalist.
Language: English
In coop with Children Africa 2010, The Secret Garden Network, Tranan Publishing
House, Natur & Kultur and The Swedish Academy for Children’s Books
17.00–17.45 Code Fr1700.1
Patrick Findeis, Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker, Lukas Bärfuss
Provinz/Globalisierung
In der jüngsten Zeit lassen sich zwei deutliche Tendenzen
in der deutschsprachigen Literatur beobachten.
Auf der einen Seite wenden sich junge Autoren
ab vom Lärm der Großstadt und siedeln ihre Geschichten
in ländlichen Milieus an. Hier bietet die
Abgeschiedenheit der Provinz Nährboden für Traditionen,
Generationskonflikte und Reflektionen der
eigenen Wurzeln. Auf der anderen Seite interessieren
sich viele Autoren für das Thema Globalisierung
und schicken ihre Protagonisten in die weite Welt.
Dabei bespiegelt die Erforschung des Fremden oft
die eigene Identität. Es stellt sich die Frage, wo die
Unterschiede, Reibungspunkte aber auch Parallelen
zwischen Provinz und Welt, Globalisierung und
Tradition liegen. Leiter des Kulturamtes der Stadt
Göteborg Björn Sandmark diskutiert das Thema
mit den Autoren Patrick Findeis (Deutschland),
Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker (Österreich) und
Lukas Bärfuss (Schweiz).
Sprache: Deutsch
In coop with Zentrum für Österreichstudien, dem Goethe-Institut Schweden unt
der Schweizerischen Botschaft
17.00–17.20 Code Fr1700.5
Deon Meyer
Crime and punishment in the new South
Africa
Deon Meyer, crime writer from Cape Town, talks
about his portrayals of the complicated reality that
is South Africa, with his Swedish publisher Svante
Weyler.
Language: English
In coop with Weyler förlag
17.00–18.00 Code Fr1700.9
Richard Wilkinson
The danger of inequality
The truism that increased economic growth will solve
many societal problems has long been accepted.
Economic differences have been considered either
unimportant or even advantageous. And yet it seems
nothing could be more wrong. On the contrary, the
new research presented in the book The Spirit Level
shows that the extent of the social and health problems
in a society can be linked directly to the degree
of inequality in the society. In a more unequal
society people report feeling worse both physically
and psychologically. Their lives are shorter. The
crime rate is higher. Violence is more widespread.
Social mobility is less. In short: the greater the inequality,
the greater the problem. Professor Emeritus
Richard Wilkinson, one of the authors of The
Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always
Do Better, talks about the new scientific findings
which are changing the view of how rich societies
actually function.
Moderator: Dan Josefsson, journalist.
Language: English
In coop with Karneval Förlag
17.00–18.00 Code Fr1700.10
Out of Africa?
Many African writers are based in Europe or the
USA. Some have moved voluntarily, others involuntarily.
This seminar talks about the African diaspora,
migration and exile, language and identity. How
is a writer’s work affected by such moves? Is one’s
own identity more distinct or more confused after
such a move? Is the country one left behind clearer
when viewed from another country? Sefi Atta moved
to the US to study economics, Chris Abani fled
from Nigeria, Shailja Patel divides her time between
Kenya and the US, Maaza Mengiste has now for the
first time written about Ethiopia, which she left as a
four-year-old, and Miguel Gullander is a Swedish-
Portuguese author who, after a period of working
in Cape Verde and then in Mozambique, has now
moved to Angola.
Moderator: Stefan Helgesson, author and lecturer
in English at Stockholm University.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010, Celanders förlag, Tidskriften 10TAL, Bokförlaget Forum,
Swedish Institute and Instituto Camões
“The Fair was vibrant with interest
in books. it was exhausting
but very rewarding to be
part of it and to meet the wellinformed
audience.”
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TORSDAG 24 september
saTuRdaY 25th september
10.00–10.45 Code Lö1000.1
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The language of power and the power of
language
How can African self-esteem be restored in a globalised
and over-exploited world? That is the question posed
by Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s highly topical book Something
Torn and New. The solution, according to Ngugi, lies
within local languages. Ngugi is internationally acclaimed
as a novelist and is currently a professor of English
literature. He gave up writing literature in English in
favour of his first language Gikuyu, to make his work
more accessible to ordinary Kenyans. He talks here
with Raoul J Granqvist who studied Kenyan literature
for many years and who, like Ngugi, is a professor of
English literature.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010, Tidskriften 10TAL and Swedish Institute
10.00–10.45 Code Lö1000.7
Laurence Lefèvre, Liliane Korb, Johanna Limme, Martin
Palmqvist
The small details make the best crime novels
French sisters Laurence Lefèvre and Liliane Korb,
write crime novels set in 1890s Paris, under the joint
pen name of Claude Izner. Murder on the Eiffel Tower
is the first title in their series about bookseller Victor
Legris. The knowledge the sisters have of Paris, where
they themselves are booksellers on the banks of the
river Seine, is evident in the books. Meet the collaborating
authors together with another author pair,
Johanna Limme and Martin Palmqvist. Böljelek
[The Wave Game] is the first book in their series
about the thoughtful vicar Simon Eldfeldt, who
struggles with his weight and tries to love his young,
beautiful, unfaithful wife. Their book also takes place
in the 1890s, albeit in Karlshamn in Blekinge.
Moderator: Maria Neij, crime critic.
Language: English
In coop with Kabusa Böcker
10.00–10.45 Code Lö1000.11
On the road from Africa
More and more African voices are emerging into the
throng of world literature. Some are new writers, while
others are unknown to Swedish readers. Who are they?
What do they write about? What do they look like?
Come and experience a cavalcade of impressions, with
45 minutes of presentations and readings. The seminar
is the ideal shortcut for those who have a growing desire
to meet more writers, to gain a deeper knowledge
and to pose the question: Why do people talk about
African writers? Why aren’t they just called writers?
Participants include Kopano Matlwa from South
Africa, Ondjaki from Angola, Petina Gappah from
Zimbabwe, Tolu Ogunlesi from Nigeria, Irene Sabatini
from Zimbabwe, and Biyi Bandele from Nigeria.
Moderator: Gunilla Kindstrand, cultural journalist.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010, Tranan Publishing House, Albert Bonniers Förlag,
Norstedts and Leopard förlag
11.00–11.45 Code Lö1100.5
Alexander McCall Smith
The prolific professor
The engaging Mma Ramotswe and her charming
little detective agency in Botswana was his first literary
contribution. Now books in three different
series – The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, The
Sunday Philosophy Club and The 44 Scotland
Street Series – are published annually in Swedish
translation, with still more books published in
English. Alexander McCall Smith is a professor in
medical law who became a full time author, and a
Scot who returned home after 18 years in Africa. He
is evidently more productive than most people. How
does he manage it? What drives him? Together with
the Swedish journalist Ingalill Mosander, McCall
Smith talks about an authorship which has so far
resulted in 15 million books sold and translations
into 37 languages.
Language: English
In coop with Damm Förlag/Forma Books
11.00–11.20 Code Lö1100.7
Nuruddin Farah
Africa and the shackles of sexuality
The Nobel Prize-tipped author and feminist Nuruddin
Farah from Somalia talks with Ottar’s editor
Ylva Bergman about the fear of female sexuality,
forced marriages and the importance of women’s
liberation in African society.
Language: English
In coop with Ottar (RFSU)
11.00–11.45 Code Lö1100.8
Boubacar Boris Diop, Véronique Tadjo, Lukas Bärfuss
The weight of history
Can history explain the wars and violence of today?
Or the myths? What turns ordinary people
into murderers? What happens afterwards? Boubacar
Boris Diop, an author from Senegal, wrote the
novel Murambi, The Book of Bones (2000) about
two childhood friends, one of whom is in Rwanda
during the 1994 genocide, and the other who returns
from exile four years later. Véronique Tadjo,
from the Côte d’Ivoire, also published The Shadow
of Imana, Travels in the Heart of Rwanda in 2000.
This year the Swiss writer Lukas Bärfuss’ Hundert
Tage [One Hundred Days] is published in Swedish
translation. The novel is about David, a Swiss aid
worker, who witnesses developments which cause
him to question himself and his motives and realize
that nobody is innocent.
Moderator: Marika Griehsel, freelance journalist,
former Africa correspondent for SVT.
Language: English and French (translated)
In coop with Africa 2010, the Swiss Embassy and Norstedts
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Nawal El Saadawi
A constant campaigner for women’s rights
“My dream is a world without religion” represents
an attitude which does not go unpunished in
many parts of the world. For the Egyptian author
and doctor Nawal El Saadawi, it has led to death
threats, prison, and periods of life in exile. Today she
is arguably the Arab world’s leading campaigner for
women’s rights, and uses her passionate and intense
language to expose the dishonesty, corruption and
oppression of women in Egyptian society today. In
the latest of El Saadawi’s books, Zina: The Stolen
Novel, these dark sides are exposed in a story about
the privileged Badour, who is both betrayed and oppressed,
and the street child Zina who escapes the
slums to become a famous singer. Nawal El Saadawi
talks with Svenska Dagbladet’s Culture Editor
Stefan Eklund about her work and her irrepressible
fight against oppression.
Language: English
In coop with Ordfront förlag
12.00–12.45 Code Lö1200.11
Deon Meyer
How dangerous is South Africa?
Deon Meyer is one of South Africa’s leading crime
writers. Devil’s Peak, the third of his books to be
translated into Swedish, takes place in Cape Town
and tells the story of three characters brought together
by a grim fate. Each in his or her own way has
been scarred by the unhealed conflicts of apart heid
and war in South Africa. Meyer has been a journalist
in both the old and the new South Africa. He
talks about the background to his crime novels and
answers the question: How dare he have a Xhosa
character as a hero?
Conversational partner: Svante Weyler, publisher.
Language: English
In coop with Weyler förlag
12.30–12.50 Code Lö1230.5
Biyi Bandele
The voice of an unknown soldier
Biyi Bandele, who was born in 1967 in Nigeria, is a
prizewinning author and playwright. He talks about
his novel Burma Boy, the story of a boy growing into
a man right in the middle of a fierce war, told with
warmth and humour.
Language: English
In coop with Leopard förlag
13.00–13.45 Code Lö1300.1
Unity Dow
A role model – Unity Dow!
How does one travel from a childhood in the village
of Mochudi to law degrees from Gaborone,
Swaziland and Edinburgh – to a law firm – to an
activist for human rights, primarily for women and
children – to the first female High Court judge in
Botswana – to acclaimed author? Unity Dow can
tell you. In her novels she takes up urgent current
social, political and human problems. Her literary
production includes such titles as: Far and Beyond,
The Screaming of the Innocent, Heavens May Fall,
and most recently Saturday is for Funerals. She talks
with Anneli Dufva, cultural journalist at Swedish
Radio.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010 and Children Africa 2010
13.00–13.45 Code Lö1300.4
Erica Jong
A turbulent celebrity life
The American author Erica Jong has always provoked
and amazed. In her memoir Seducing the Demon
she recounts her life as an author – over thirty
years of celebrity status, ridicule, husbands, lovers,
alcohol and abstention. Writing has often been a
means for her to comprehend her often turbulent
life. This year also marks the re-release of Jong’s
1973 debut novel Fear of Flying in Swedish translation.
With her outspokenness and directness about
sex and female sexuality, this feminist Bible had a
huge explosive impact when it was first published.
Erica Jong talks with the Swedish author and journalist
Cecilia Hagen about her writing.
Language: English
In coop with Norstedts
13.00–13.45 Code Lö1300.6
Jonathan Shapiro
Africa black on white
Satire as cultural resistance
South Africa’s outstanding satirical cartoonist
Jonathan Shapiro, alias Zapiro, never allows the
political conversational climate to settle. He puts
the government and other powerful figures under
a powerful magnifying glass and walks a thin line,
unafraid – but perilously near electric fences. He
is extremely popular among those who haven’t yet
been targeted by his sharp pen but threatened by litigation
by those he does target.
Moderator: Marika Griehsel, freelance journalist
and former Africa correspondent for SVT.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010

14.00–14.45 Code Lö1400.1
Boubacar Boris Diop, Elieshi Lema, Biyi Bandele
Thousands of languages
Africa is a continent with around two thousand
languages. Fifty years have passed since African states
started to be independent. Why are the colonial
languages still so dominant in African literature?
Do you become a different person in a different
language? Is language a class issue? Or are you more
aware of language the more languages you know?
Boubacar Boris Diop has written his latest novel in
Wolof instead of French. Elieshi Lema’s first language
is Chaga, but she writes children’s books in Swahili
and literature for adults in English, while Biyi
Bandele’s knowledge of Hausa, Yoruba, English and
Pidgin came with his mother’s milk.
Introduction and moderator: Tore Janson, Professor
Emeritus in African languages at University of
Gothenburg.
Language: English and French (translated)
In coop with Africa 2010 and Leopard förlag
14.00–14.45 Code Lö1400.3
Andrew Taylor
The many faces of evil
Andrew Taylor is author of The American Boy, noted
by The Times as one of the top ten crime novels
of the decade. His sensitive and complex books are
also critically acclaimed in Sweden – Bleeding Heart
S q u a r e, published last year in Sweden, was awarded
the Golden Crowbar prize for Best Translated Crime
Novel by the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy,
who praised it as “a crime novel about the different
faces of evil, captured in a true depiction of pre-war
England.” He has also been awarded the Diamond
Dagger, the major British crime writing award. This
year he publishes The Anatomy of Ghosts, which takes
place in London and Cambridge University at
the end of the 18th century. Andrew Taylor was
born in 1951 and lives in England. He has written
over twenty books and also reviews and writes about
crime novels in The Spectator.
Moderator: Maria Neij, crime writing critic.
Language: English
In coop with Bokförlaget Forum
14.00–14.45 Code Lö1400.5
Nadine Gordimer, Per Wästberg
Being an author in today’s South Africa
What role do writers in today’s South Africa play
compared with in the apartheid years? Do writers
now feel liberated from external and internal censorship?
What challenges are there, and how strong
is the temptation to retreat inwards and not write
about contemporary politics? Nobel Prize winner
Nadine Gordimer and author Per Wästberg discuss
crucial turning points in her life, in her writing and
in African literature since she was awarded the Nobel
Prize in 1991. During the apartheid era she took
the side of the freedom fighters, but maintained that
she could play a more powerful role if she kept herself
apart from all the decrees and dogmas of the
movement. How does she view her own role today?
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010
14.00–14.45 Code Lö1400.10
Kenan Malik, Dilsa Demirbag-Sten, Maria Leissner
Multicultural politics
Good or bad for integration?
Most people would agree that integration could work
better. Millions of people in Europe never manage
to break into mainstream society. Is multicultural
politics really the right way forward? Critics maintain
that it is counterproductive and creates a themand-us
divide. People are categorized in different
ethnic and religious groups instead of being seen as
individuals. But what is the alternative? The British
author and debator Kenan Malik talks with Dilsa
Demirbag-Sten, Swedish journalist and author, and
Ambassador Maria Leissner, chair of the Delegation
for Roma issues in Sweden, about the advantages
and disadvantages of multicultural politics.
Moderator: Qaisar Mahmood, Culture without
borders.
Language: English
In coop with Stiftelsen Culture without borders, the British Council and Voltaire
Publishing/Kraft&Kultur
15.00–15.45 Code Lö1500.1
One language – many literatures
Portuguese in Africa
Portuguese is one of the oldest but least well known
written languages in Africa. Cape Verde and Angola
have the longest literary tradition, while Mozambique’
literary prominence has emerged more recently.
In this seminar, authors from three countries discuss
what unites and what divides these eastern, south
west and western former colonies – and why the
Portuguese language seems to be stronger than ever.
Participants: Mia Couto and Paulina Chiziane from
Mozambique, Ondjaki from Angola, and Miguel
Gullander, a Swedish-Portuguese writer.
Moderator: Stefan Helgesson, author and lecturer
in English.
Language: Portuguese, translated into Swedish
In coop with Africa 2010, Leopard förlag, Västerås Diocese, Tranan Publishing
House and Instituto Camões
15.00–15.20 Code Lö1500.5
Erica Jong, Maria Sveland
Fear of Flying – 30 years later
Erica Jong and Maria Sveland talk about women’s
sexuality, liberation and positive attitude to life.
This year marks the publication of two new books
by Erica Jong in Swedish translation: her memoirs
Seducing the Demon and a re-release of her famous
Fear of Flying with an introduction by Maria Sveland.
Language: English
In coop with Norstedts
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15.00–15.45 Code Lö1500.9
Maaza Mengiste, Irene Sabatini
Eyes turned homeward
Ethiopian Maaza Mengiste and Irene Sabatini from
Zimbabwe are two writers who have left their homelands,
but only physically. In their books they have
returned. Mengiste, currently resident in New York,
writes in her debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
about the brutal revolution in Ethiopia in 1974 and
the hope of a father and his two sons, which turns to
despair with the guerillas’ rule of terror. Sabatini lives
in Geneva and debuted with The Boy Next Door,
a love story which takes place in Zimbabwe from the
challenging times of early independence in 1980 until
the present day. Maaza Mengiste and Irene Sabatini
talk about their books, both published in Swedish
translation this year, and about what it feels like
to return to your native country in your writing.
Moderator: Görrel Espelund, journalist.
Language: English
In coop with Bokförlaget Forum and Norstedts
16.00–16.45 Code Lö1600.1
Ingrid Le Roux, Denis Mukwege
In the service of humanity
A conversation about vocation and the call to help
others. Participants: Swedish doctor Ingrid Le
Roux, founder of health clinics in the shanty towns
of Cape Town and personal physician to Desmond
Tutu, and the Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege,
who received the UN Prize in the Field of Human
Rights and the Olof Palme Prize for his work with
rape victims in war-torn Congo-Kinshasa.
Moderator: Marika Griehsel, freelance journalist,
former Africa correspondent for SVT.
Language: English
In coop with Libris, PMU InterLife and Behold Man/Church of Sweden
16.00–16.45 Code Lö1600.8
Lesley Beake, Lasse Berg, Unity Dow
The power of the word in the Kalahari Desert
Paper people, big people, small people
The San people in Botswana really want to learn
to read and write. Those who already can, dubbed
“Paper people”, are important. They can talk with
the “Big people”, and help the San people to a better
life. Lesley Beake, one of South Africa’s leading
writers for children and young adults, has long taken
an interest in the culture of the San people. Song of
Be, her only book in Swedish translation, is about a
San girl. Lesley Beake is definitely one of the Paper
people, as is Lasse Berg, a good friend of the San
people, whom he has portrayed in his book Gryning
över Kalahari [Dawn over the Kalahari]. Unity Dow
is both an author and the first female High Court
judge in Botswana. She has worked to attain and
preserve many rights for indigenous peoples.
Moderator: Britt Isaksson, cultural journalist.
Language: English
In coop with Children Africa 2010, The Secret Garden Network, Africa 2010 and
Ordfront
“a thrilling fair, a thrilling city.”
mickey spillane, usa, 1991
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TORSDAG 24 september
sundaY 26th september
10.30–10.50 Code Sö1030.8
Gabeba Baderoon, Maria Olaussen, Wumi Raji
Africa writing Europe
How is Europe portrayed in African literature? Associate
Professor Gabeba Baderoon, South Africa/
USA, Professor Maria Olaussen, Sweden, and Associate
Professor Wumi Raji, Nigeria, discuss the antagonisms
and complications that come to the fore
when people try to define Europe and Africa.
Language: English
In coop with Linnaeus University, Växjö-Kalmar
11.00–11.45 Code Sö1100.1
Yaba Badoe, Sindiwe Magona, Monica Arac de Nyeko,
Doreen Baingana
African love stories
African love stories is a wholly appropriate title for
the anthology edited by the author Ama Ata Aidoo,
because readers learn much about both Africa and
love. Aidoo has collected works from 21 female writers
from different parts of the continent, who tell
stories of sensual pleasure, betrayal, prostitution,
romantic love, female circumcision and women’s
independence. The result is an exciting book, including
laughter, anger, pride and sorrow. Four of the
authors in the anthology – Yaba Badoe from Ghana,
Sindiwe Magona from South Africa and Monica
Arac de Nyeko and Doreen Baingana from Uganda
– talk about and read from their short stories. They
are presented by Kerstin Wixe, cultural journalist
at Swedish Radio.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010, Tranan Publishing House, Föreningen Afrikansk Litteratur,
Children Africa 2010, Karavan and Swedish Institute
11.00–11.20 Code Sö1100.9
Helena Bergendahl, Marie Oskarsson, Viveka Sjögren, Bakur
Sulakauri
A dish with too many ingredients
Can you collaborate on a children’s book without
a common language? Authors and illustrators from
Sweden and Georgia have tried – and succeeded!
Participants: Helena Bergendahl, illustrator, Marie
Oskarsson, writer, Viveka Sjögren, writer and
illustrator, and Bakur Sulakauri, the publisher
from Tbilisi who published the first Georgian picture
book in 2006.
Language: Swedish and Georgian (translated into
Swedish)
In coop with Swedish Institute and the Swedish Writers’ Union
12.00–12.45 Code Sö1200.3
Steven Beller, Jonathan Leman
Antisemitism – on the rubbish heap of
history?
With hindsight and key in hand it is easy to uncover
antisemitism. But how do we recognize racism
and anti-Semitism in our own time? Steven Beller,
author of the book Antisemitism: A Very Short
Introduction, talks with Lisa Bjurwald, who has
researched the extreme right movement in Europe,
and Jonathan Leman from EXPO and the Swedish
Committee Against Antisemitism.
Moderator: Anders Carlberg, Judisk Kulturdialog.
Language: English
In coop with Judisk Kulturdialog and Hillelförlaget
13.00–13.45 Code Sö1300.1
Peter Hamilton, Johan Ehrenberg, Anna Davour, Glenn
Petersen
Life, the universe and everything
The big questions of Existence and the Meaning of
Life take on a new angle when posed in the distant
future, and from a different cosmological time perspective.
How can we come to terms with concepts
such as God, souls and everlasting life in other solar
systems and civilizations? Do words such as freedom
and equality possess any meaning when people leave
the planet and – possibly – their physical bodies,
as we know them today? A conversation about science
fiction and the big questions from an unusual
angle, with Peter Hamilton, author of such epic science
fiction works as the Night’s Dawn trilogy and
the Void trilogy, Johan Ehrenberg, editor, Anna
D a v o u r, astroparticle physicist, and Glenn Petersen,
bookseller.
Moderator: Maths Claesson, bookseller.
Language: English
In coop with SF Bookstore
a dish with too many ingredients
sindiwe magona
Peter Hamilton
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PHoTo: ViCToR dlamini
PHoTo: PRiVaTe
illusTRaTion: soPHio KinTsuRasHVili

PHoTo: sola osoFisan
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sundaY
sefi atta
PHoTo: sola osoFisan Véronique Tadjo
Christian epanya
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13.00–13.45 Code Sö1300.4
Nawal El Saadawi, Sefi Atta
Breaking ground
Two women from different generations and countries
– the Egyptian Nawal El Saadawi, one of the greatest
authors from the Arab world, and the Nigerian
author Sefi Atta, who has just completed her third
novel, meet in a conversation about life and writing.
Both portray women’s lives in societies where ideas
about and conflicts between the sexes, religions,
languages and lifestyles seem impossible to change.
Both possess a directness in their literary styles, as
well as humour and credibility. El Saadawi’s latest
work Zina: The Stolen Novel and Atta’s debut novel
Everything Good Will Come will both be published
in Swedish translation in 2010.
Moderator: Monica Lauritzen, author and cultural
journalist.
Language: English
In coop with Africa 2010, Ordfront and Tranan Publishing House
13.00–13.45 Code Sö1300.5
Christian Epanya, Piet Grobler, John Kilaka, Véronique Tadjo
The many faces of picture books
Picture of Africa 3
African children’s books have many faces. Meet
four such faces, including some of the continent’s
leading picture book writers and illustrators, presenting
themselves through words and pictures. Participants:
Christian Epanya, Cameroon (Papa Diop’s
taxi), Piet Grobler, South Africa, (Makwelane and
the crocodile), John Kilaka, Tanzania (Fresh Fish)
and Véronique Tadjo, Côte d’Ivoire (Mamy Wata
and the monster).
Moderator: Lennart Eng, chair of the Association
of Swedish Illustrators and Graphic Designers,
( Svenska Tecknare).
Language: English
In coop with Children Africa 2010, The Secret Garden Network and Svenska
Tecknare
14.00–14.45 Code Sö1400.5
Hilda Twongyeirwe, Monica Arac de Nyeko,
Doreen Baingana
Young women put Uganda on the literary
map
Have you read a Ugandan novel recently? Didn’t
think so. Not much of the country’s literary production
reaches readers in the west. But books are being
written, ideas are simmering, and literary prizes are
rolling in. Hilda Twongyeirwe from the organization
Femrite, which promotes women’s writing,
Monica Arac de Nyeko, winner of the Caine Prize
for African Writing 2007 for her short story Jambula
Tree, and Doreen Baingana, acclaimed for her
novel Tropical Fish, talk about the state of literature
in Uganda.
Moderator: Birgitta Wallin, editor.
Language: English
In coop with Karavan and Swedish Institute
“Fantastic, i was really having a
good time. it was great to see so
many readers, especially young
readers. in america we don’t
have that many book fairs for
readers. most of them are for
industry people.”
meg Cabot, usa, 2008
illusTRaTion: VéRonique TadJo

PHoTo: Göan assneR/VieW
Enjoy the magnificant view of the sea town Göteborg!
gÖTeBORg
– a vibrant city by the sea
As the second biggest city located on the west coast of Sweden, Göteborg has a special character.
Nature and places of interest are never far away. Despite its cosmopolitan stamp though, it still
has a typical small-town charm. Göteborg Book Fair takes place in the heart of the city centre.
T
he Swedish Exhibition
& Congress Centre is
located in the middle
of a line of venues, museums
and other attractions that cuts
through town, from Ullevi
Stadium, a 43 000 seat arena
hosting concerts and sports
events, to the Museum of World
Culture.
A short stroll away you’ll find
Göteborg’s main street, popularly
known as The Avenue, surrounded
by museums, theatres, a con-
cert hall, shops, restaurants and
nightclubs.
Göteborg is the largest university
city in Scandinavia with 60 000
students, and as a result, the local
music scene is considered to be
one of the most progressive and
dynamic in Europe.
Outside influences are nothing
new for this port city, where the
shipping industry remained the
largest employer until the 1970s.
Close ties with Britain gave rise
to the sobriquet “Little London”,
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the city’s English name of Göteborg.
The maritime character of the
city still remains today, with daily
ferries to Denmark and Germany,
although many of the docks and
shipyards are being converted to
seaside residential areas.
This proximity to the sea is also
reflected in the number of top
quality seafood restaurants.
No fewer than five restaurants
have been awarded stars in Guide
Michelin.
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useFul inFoRmaTion
• Open for trade visitors
Thursday 9 am–6 pm
Friday 9 am–2 pm
• Open for all
Friday 2 pm–7 pm
saturday 9 am–6 pm
sunday 9 am–5 pm
• Visiting address
swedish exhibition
& Congress Centre,
mässans gata 20 / Korsvägen,
Göteborg, sweden
• Seminar halls
an up-to-date list showing
where each seminar is held
will be available at the
information desks at the Book
Fair. The list will also be available
at our website
www.goteborg-bookfair.com
from mid-september.
• Information desks
There are manned information
desks throughout the
exhibition centre.
• Cafés, restaurants and bars
There are more than twenty
cafés, restaurants and bars
within the swedish exhibition
& Congress Centre. Collect a
map at one of the information
desks.
• Hotel rooms
may be booked through
svenska mässan Hotel
• The swedish exhibition &
Congress Centre’s goal is
that all activities within the
exhibition area should be
accessible to our visitors
regardless of their individual
abilities.
• Basic access is available to all
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op e n i n g h o u r S A n d ti c k e tS
• Tickets
Thursday to Friday 2 pm:
seK 200 (approx euR 20) per
day
Friday 2 pm to sunday:
seK 140 (approx euR 14) per
day
ho w to F i n d u S
• How to find us
Göteborg Book Fair takes
place at the swedish
exhibition & Congress Centre
in Göteborg.
How to find the swedish exhibition
& Congress Centre:
By car: exit the e6 / e20
motorway at the “mässan
scandinavium liseberg” exit.
By train: From Central station
in Göteborg, take tram 2 or
tram 4 from drottningtorget
to Korsvägen.
By air: From landvetter airport
you can take airport buses
which stop at Korsvägen
in F o r m A t i o n
• Website
information about the
Göteborg Book Fair,
programme changes and additions
see: www.goteborgbookfair.com
go o d to k n o w
service, se-412 94 Göteborg
Tel: +46 31 708 86 90
Fax: + 46 31 708 87 59
e-mail:
hotelservice@svenskamassan.se
• Cash dispenser / ATM
a cash dispenser / aTm is
located next to the main
entrance, entry 5. open 24
hours. There will also be cash
AcceSSibility
our exhibition halls, conference
premises and restaurants.
• The swedish exhibition &
Congress Centre, Göteborg
Convention Centre and Hotel
Gothia Towers are certified
in accordance with quality’s
accessibility criteria.
• Seminar cards
For details on all seminar card
prices, please see our website
www.goteborg-bookfair.com
To pre-book tickets, contact:
info@goteborg-bookfair.com
outside the swedish exhibition
& Congress Centre.
By tram: Trams 2, 4, 5, 6, 8
and 13 all stop at Korsvägen.
For more information on
time tables, prices and tickets,
please see www.vasttrafik.se
• Timetables for buses
and trams
in entry 5, the main entrance,
there is a monitor displaying
up-to-date bus and tram arrival
and departure times from
Korsvägen. Timetables are
also available online at
www.vasttrafik.se
• Press centre
The press centre is located
on the first floor and is equipped
with computers, printers,
copy machines, TVs, videos
and telephones.
dispenser / aTm buses within
the exhibition & Congress
Centre in Hall d. a cash dispenser
/ aTm is also located
within Pressbyrån newsagents
on Korsvägen.
• Taxi
There is a taxi rank outside
Hotel Gothia Towers’
e ntrance.
• There is free admission
for companions of visitors with
disabilities who require the
assistance of a companion.
• Guide dogs for people with
impaired vision are permitted
in all the premises.

Some Prominent Guests at the Göteborg Book Fair over the years
Nuria Amat · Ambai · Samir Amin · Pramoedya Ananta Toer · U.R. Ananthamurthy · Lisa
David Attenborough · Margaret Atwood · Bernardo Atxaga · Jean M Auel · Paul Auster · Hira
Belli · Vizma Belševica · Tahar Ben Jelloun · Alan Bennett · John Berendt · Homi K Bhabha ·
· Claire Bretécher · André Brink · Joseph Brodsky · Suzanne Brøgger · Thomas Buerghenthal ·
Marie Cardinal · Arvid Carlsson · Mircea Cărtărescu · Javier Cercas · Aidan Chambers · Tracy
Jilly Cooper · Mia Couto · José Craveirinha · Kevin Crossley-Holland · Robert Crumb · Michael
· Mahasweta Devi · Waris Dirie · Jenny Diski · Jutta Ditfurth · Assia Djebar · Le Doan ·
Dudintsev · Friedrich Dürrenmatt · Shirin Ebadi · Umberto Eco · Barbara Ehrenreich · Nawal
Paul Erdman · Péter Estherházy · Lygia Fagundes Telles · Ruth Fainlight · Lee Falk · Oriana Fallaci
· Vigdis Finnbogadóttir · Dario Fo · Ken Follett · Richard Ford · Marilyn French ·
igitas Geda · Elisabeth George · Doris Gercke · Pere Gimfeller · Paolo Giordano ·
· Bud Grace · Günter Grass · Germaine Greer · Durs Grünbein · Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
Joanne Harris · Tony Harrison · Seamus Heaney · Stefan Heym · Carl Hiaasen · Jack Higgins ·
· Nora Ikstena · Moses Isegawa · Christian Jacq · P D James · Tama Janowitz · Tove Jansson
Jaan Kaplinski · Ryszard Kapuściński · Jackie Kay · Yasar Kemal · William Kennedy · Etgar Keret
· Jan Kjærstad · Ivan Klima · Phillip Knightley · György Konrád · Alexis Kouros · Ahmadou
Kunzru · Hanif Kureishi · Shahla Lahiji · Cynthia Lennon · Donna Leon · Elmore Leonard ·
Hugo Loetscher · Alan Lomax · Karel G van Loon · Peter Lovesey · Robert Ludlum ·
· Jack Mapanje · J Nozipo Maraire · Javier Marías · Monica Maron · John Marsden · Trude
· Colleen McCullough · Val McDermid · Jay McInerney · Robert Menasse · Fatima Mernissi ·
Mirza · David Mitchell · Anna Mitgutsch · Bart Moeyaert · Rosa Montero · Margriet de Moor
Peter Nádas · Anita Nair · Taslima Nasrin · Aziz Nesin · Cees Nooteboom · Lawrence Norfolk
· Kenzaburo Oe · Nuala O’Faolain · Ben Okri · Michel Onfray · Michael Ondaatje · Amos Oz
Gudrun Pausewang · Iain Pears · Pepetela · Javier Pérez de Cuéllar · Nick Perumov · Rosamunde
Dmitri Prigov · Lily Prior · Philip Pullman · Yann Quefflélec · Atiq Rahimi · Bali Rai · Jânis Ramba
Robbe-Grillet · Robin Robertson · Peter Robinson · Salman Rushdie · Lars Saabye Christensen
André Schiffrin · Evelyn Schlag · Eric Schlosser · Peter Schneider · Patricia Schonstein Pinnock ·
Alan Sillitoe · Isaac Bashevis Singer · Peter Singer · Francisco Sionil José · Knuts Skujenieks ·
Donald Spoto · Adam Thirlwell Edwin Thumboo · Colm Tóibín · Jáchym Topol · Ilija Trojanow ·
Vaksberg · Gore Vidal · Cynthia Voigt · Derek Walcott · Mort Walker · Günter Wallraff ·
Urs Widmer · Elie Wiesel · Simon Wiesenthal · Jeanette Winterson · Jan Wolkers · Stuart Woods
Adam Zagajewski · Helen Zahavi · Juli Zeh · He Zhihong · Cecily von Ziegesar · Hanne Ørstavik

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