MARCH 22, 2011

It is our great joy and privilege to be able – for the fourth year running – to invite you to CPH:LITT, Copenhagen’s international literature festival for quality literature. The four-day festival will offer readings, conversations, music, film, and much else.

INTERNATIONAL NAMES
This is your chance to meet internationally acclaimed writers such as Andrej Kurkov, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Judith Hermann, Beate Grimsrud, Christoph Hein, Amit Chaudhuri, Carl Frode Tiller, Thomas Brussig, Ewa Lipska, and Sara Stridsberg.

DANISH VOICES
From out native literary soil we are honoured to present Naja Marie Aidt, Janne Teller, Klaus Rifbjerg, Kirsten Thorup, Helle Helle, Anne-Lise Marstrand-Jørgensen, Dy Plambeck, Josefine Klougart, Birgithe Kosovic, Eva Tind Kristensen, Lone Hørslev, Harald Voetmann and many others.

MUSIC, POETRY, & QUIZ
On the occasion of Bob Dylan's 70th birthday we also invite you to a special tribute concert where musicians and poets will give their interpretations of selections of Dylan’s songs. We put on shows by Czech band Psi Vojáci with poet Filip Topol as front man and by Indian Amit Chaudhuri and his band, once again we collaborate with ØK (Øverste Kirurgiske) on a rather more untraditional reading performance, and we have cooperate with Bezzerwizzer on a literary quiz for quiz aficionados.

THREE STAGES
Huset in Magstræde will be the heart of the festival; here there will be live music and a wide range of performances and the like in the café on the ground floor. In addition to Huset we make use of the stage in the Black Diamond library and in Politikens Hus.
The festival is subsidized by The Danish Arts Agency and Copenhagen Municipality and has taken shape in collaboration with the Goethe Institute, the Czech embassy, the Polish embassy, Hotel Guldsmeden, the International Writers’ Stage at the Royal Library, Politikens Hus, and Huset i Magstræde.

Welcome!

The programme board
Ivan Rod, Simon Hastrup, and Louise Øhrstrøm