Now featured in 41 cities worldwide, Literary Death Match will make its Oslo debut on Friday, 30 March. The event will take place at Blå (Doors at 7, show at 8:15 p.m.; 100 NOK preorder, 150 NOK on the door). Literary
Death Match, has been called “the most entertaining reading series ever” by the LA Times and that it “helps revitalize the coolitude of the printed word” (Interview Magazine). It combines the intellectual buzz of a writers’ salon with the thrills and spills of X Factor.
So what happens at a Literary Death Match? Each episode of this competitive, humor-centric reading series features a thrilling mix of four acclaimed and emerging authors who perform their most electric writing in seven minutes or less before a lively audience and a panel of three allstar judges. After each pair of readings, the judges — focused on literary merit, performance and intangibles — take turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary about each story, then select their favorite to advance to the finals, when the show’s literary sensibility takes a turn for a comical climax (like a literary spelling bee or Pin-the-Mustache on Hemingway) to decide the winner.
“Since we did our first international show in Beijing three years ago, it’s been a dream to bring the show to Oslo,” said LDM creator and host Todd Zuniga, named a LA Times Face to Watch in 2012. “Our goal has always been to showcase and celebrate literature as a brilliant, unstoppable medium — and we’ve put together a fantastic lineup that will do just that. I couldn’t be more excited.”
The March lineup is headlined The night’s foursome of readers will include illustrator and children’s book author Reidar Kjelsen (the mind behind Otto Monster), columnist and fictionist Jan Grue (author of Alt under kontroll), poet wunderkind Hilde Susan Jaegtnes, and cultural commentator Guro Sibeko (author of Vingespenn,Ctrl+Alt+Delete and children’s book Blodmånenatta). They’ll be judged by Shining’s multi-talented frontman Jørgen Munkeby,
Vom and Ontz vocalist Mai Elise Solberg, and a literary merit judge to be announced shortly.
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Contact:
Todd Zuniga
Creator & Host
Ph: +44 75038 75633
In addition to monthly events in Los Angeles, San Francisco and London, Literary Death Match, created in March 2006, has been produced in 41 cities worldwide, including New York City, Chicago, Beijing, Austin, Savannah, Edinburgh, New Orleans, Dublin, Paris and many more. The event has featured more than 650 readers including Tom Perrotta (Election), Stephen Elliott (The Adderall DIaries), and Michelle Richmond (The Year of Fog) and more than 500 judges including Pulitzer Prize-winners Jeffrey Eugenides and Jennifer Egan, Scott Adsit of 30 Rock, model/author Paulina Porizkova, and musician Moby.
For more information, please visit www.literarydeathmatch.com
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