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Wednesday, October 21
 

7:00pm PDT

Vigdis Hjorth: Repetition
Wednesday October 21, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation

Sponsored by Norway House and Center for the Art of Translation
Part of Words Around the World 

From International Booker Prize– and National Book Award–nominated author Vigdis Hjorth comes her latest novel finally translated into English, Repetition. As winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vividness, exposing a story both utterly familiar and desperately strange. It was the year she first got drunk, the year she first had sex with a boy. She was watched like a hawk by an anxious mother and a silent, distant father. It was a year of typical teenage fixation and typical teenage frivolity, and of all the usual parental fretting. Until something else took hold, and her family made an unspoken decision and a terrible sacrifice. Only now, decades later, can these events come close to being comprehended. In conversation with
Daniela Blei. 


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Daniela Blei

Daniela Blei is a historian, editor, and academic writing coach with a habit of digging up the past in unlikely places. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, New Republic, the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere, and she writes and edits for the Stanford Social Innovation Review. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford, was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley, and has taught at Reed College. For more than a decade, she has coached scholars whose books have gone on to leading unive... Read More →
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Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. Will and Testament sold 170,000 copies in Norway and has received several awards, including the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize, as well as being nominated... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Telegraph Hill Books 1501 Grant Ave, San Francisco
 

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