Reading by
Kjersti A. Skomsvold

Moderation:
Rikarde Riedesel

Kjersti A. Skomsvold, one of Norway's most important contemporary authors, has been invited to the Berleburg Literaturpflaster. For her debut novel "The faster I walk, the smaller I am" she has been awarded numerous prizes.

What happens when a writer becomes a mother? A very special love story begins: A mother tells her newborn daughter how she was born, about her courageous decision to share her life with a man (the father of the child), to have a baby and to risk writing at the same time, the most important thing in her life. But writing and life become one - while she cradles her child, she notes down her thoughts, her literature develops at the breakfast table. Her authentic narration deals with the experience of becoming a mother and part of a family and the attempt to remain herself.

"The best novels are often those that you would have liked to have written yourself, but you are not able to do that. Kjersti Skomsvold has written a novel like this, she is one of our best authors."
Johan Harstad

Further information about Kjersti A. Skomsvold can be found on the Internet:

kjerstiskomsvold.com

Location:
Sanitätshaus Kienzle, Sählingstraße 16

Tuesday, 15th of October 2019

Beginning:
7.30 pm

Admission:
5,- € / 2,- €

Kjersti A. Skomsvold

Kjersti A. Skomsvold, born in Oslo in 1979, is said to be Norway's most important con-temporary author. For her debut novel "The faster I walk, the smaller I am" (Hoffmann and Campe 2011) she has been awarded numerous prizes.

Besides her novels she published poetry and auto-biographical prose.