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PHoTo: san Cool PHoTo: PRiVaTe PHoTo: maRY ellen maRK PHoTo: PRiVaTe saTuRdaY nawal el saadawi unity dow erica Jong Biyi Bandele 20 12.00–12.45 Code Lö1200.4 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 Kenan malik andrew Taylor miguel Gullander nadine Gordimer PHoTo: PRiVaTe PHoTo: CaRoline silVeRWood TaYloR PHoTo: VolTaiRe PuBlisHinG 21 PHoTo: ToRBJöRn selandeR
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