@susannekaluza
Director at Stiftelsen Litteraturhuset / The House of Literature in Oslo. Chair of the board at Drammen Theater. Author of 6 books: on reproductive rights, democracy, inclusive sports, parenting + 2 cookbooks. Love literature, media, politics & great memes
Feirer ALLER SISTE dag i 30-årene 🥳🥳 på aller beste måte: på boklanseringen til @susannekaluza.bsky.social og @birgitskarstein.bsky.social 🏁
Bare å la den perla her fly!
Verden trenger litt «vær grei, jobb hardt, tenk logisk og husk flokken» i monitor 🏆
@cappelendamm.bsky.social #reklameforvenner
It has begun 😳 #censorship #bookbans #freedomofspeach
Fantastic that an uncompromising three and a half hour movie can win three (!) Golden Globes!! Best drama, best actor AND best motion picture director. Huge congrats to director Brady Corbet and his Norwegian partner Mona Fastvold who has written this epic! 👏👏 #goldenglobes #thebrutalist
Tusen takk! Har kost oss sånn med å skrive denne, håper det merkes! 🤗
«Do not loose the will to resist» ✊🏻 Some of the last words by murdered Russian opposition politician and blogger Alexei Navalny. In his brilliant, humorous and devastating autobiography «Patriot».
Finished the 1st book of the year on x-mas holiday, and what a read!! Recommend Alexei Navalnys posthumous biography «Patriot» to absolutely everyone. Such a page turner! A true crime (written by the victim himself) and deep insight into Russia, propaganda, Putin, dictatorships and true bravery 💙📚
Thanks for sharing @redgoldsparks.bsky.social! Which are some of your favourites from 2024? One of mine was yours! Thank you! (Btw we love your book at The House of Literature in Oslo and in Norway. Hope to see you here soon 🤗)
Fin liten sak om boka vår i VG! Vi vet at stadig færre norske barn leser for glede, samtidig er mange barn interessert i sport. Derfor ville vi bruke idrett som inngang og ta barns nysgjerrighet om smått og stort om sport på alvor💪🏻⚽️🚣♀️👩🦽🎾 @birgitskarstein.bsky.social #boksky #barnebok
🎉Vi har skrevet bok! Om en måned kommer @birgitskarstein.bsky.social og jeg med barneboka «Hvorfor kan ikke dommeren score mål og 52 andre ting du lurer på om sport», men allerede nå er det mulig å forhåndsbestille en signert utgave her 🤗 bok.norli.no/hvorfor-kan-... #boksky #idrett #paraidrett
A blow to book banners! A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors. The law would have deputized librarians and booksellers as agents of censorship.
@annaskjervum.bsky.social Startpakkene ligger her 😃 På profilen er det noen faner rett under profilteksten, du finner den ved siden av «media» «likes» «feeds» og så altså ➡️ «starter packs». Håper det kan være til nytte!
Cartoon with three pairs of facing images: one figure on the left, three on the right. Who are we? Book Collectors! What do we want? More books! Where will we put them? We don't know!
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Yes!! «If you don’t like a book don’t read it». Simple as that! 💪🏼 Ironic that it is those who traditionally are most afraid of governement control over the individual who now want control over .. what individuals can read.
#bookbans #freadom
In Arendal, Norway, reactions from 1 parent made the principal tell the librarian to remove Maia Kobabes «GenderQueer» from the shelves.
It should be obvious but information is not harmful. No one is forced to read a book!
The librarian resisted and the book is now back on the shelves, for now.
New Jersey is fighting back against book bans and just passed the «Freedom to Read Act”!
Most books in the risk of being banned deal with LGBTQ issues or race. “Students feel the pain when the books that describe their lived experience were called disgusting, obscene, and depraved.”
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#bookbans
“Now they have laws where if Palestinian citizens of Israel like a social media post from Gaza, they could be arrested. And there's more and more cases of this happening where there's a crackdown on free speech within the ‘48 territories.”
The free LitHouse podcast with author Isabella Hammad👇🏻
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Making a list, checking it twice and stacking up the Kindle for Christmas😍Karl Ove Knausgård, Olga Tokarczuk, Joyce Carol Oates and more! The annual list from @newyorker.com of the most recommended reads of the year is my favourite way to prep for the holidays:
#booksky #literature
For years Christian Conservative forces have been attacking the abortion law in Norway. Today the Norwegian Parliament pushed forcefully back, liberalising key points of the law. Overjoyed to see that activism works! May this give hope to sisters around the world, still I fighting✊🏻
«Over the past two years, there have been over 200 bills in state legislatures proposing statewide book bans in school libraries or criminalized librarians for providing access to books that some people object to.»
This could be nation wide. Project2025 lays out how a national #bookban could work.
Enig. Sterk fremtidig Nobelkandidat! Min favoritt i denne så langt er et alldeles nydelig essay om håp. Håper du og vil kose deg med boka i romjula!
«A book is always also an opportunity to remain in dialogue»
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Booker-winning author Jenny Erpenbeck in her (brilliant!) essay collection «Not a Novel» .
Selvsagt! Leser alltid de alternative budsjettene med stor interesse! Av noen (som her!) blir jeg glad og optimistisk, av andre livredd 😅
«Have you ever had a Halloween pumpkin? You hollow out the inside and then it gradually starts collapsing, Totalitarian regimes go like that. When the true believers aren’t there any more there are only bureaucrats sustaining the regime just to sustain it.»
Margaret Atwood on the LitHouse podcast🎃
«The person on who it is focused on, whether Mao or Stalin, will die, and then there will be a power struggle. This shakes the fate in the system.
If there is an uprising the question is: how brutally is that oppressed? And how many enemies do you make in that oppression?»
Margaret Atwood
«Totalitarian regimes are never really as stable as they might seem»
Listen to insightful analysis of history and totalitarianism by @margaretatwood.bsky.social in conversation with Booker prize winning Jenny Erpenbeck at the (free!) LitHouse podcast🎧 #booksky #literature
Så glad for partier som ser verdien av arbeidet litteraturhuset gjør for å spre interesse for lesing, bøker+kunnskap! Varm takk til @venstre.no og @gurimelby.venstre.no som har foreslått en økning til oss i sitt alternative budsjett (sammen med andre gode tiltak som Samlaget, OsloPride & Jurk) 🙏🏻
🧵All together an insightful and fascinating read. Highly recommend for everyone interested in history, war and the often overlooked perspective of its aftermath.
💙📚 #literature 6/6
@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
🧵Also interesting to read how we humans find ways of differentiating us vrs them. Due to the large number of internally displaced people, a negativity towards people from other parts of the country grew. Even within the same religion ie how catholic holidays were to be properly celebrated. 5/6 💙📚
🧵Different cities had different strategies for clearing out the rubble and rebuilding. In Frankfurt chemists found a way to make a useful material -sinterbims- of the rubble, which could then be sold and reused in making concrete. This became essential in rebuilding the Frankfurt economy. 4/6 💙📚