Underskog

Hosted by LDM creator Todd Zuniga.

In what promises to be an electric night of literature, oddball braininess and plenty of laughs, Literary Death Match is making its Oslo debut at Blå — in Norweigan! — and it promises to be an absolute epic.

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)!

Sit tight, as we’ll soon announce our three all-star judges!

Literary Death Match brings together four authors to read their most electric writing for seven minutes or less before a panel of three all-star judges.

After each pair of readers, the judges take turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary — in the categories of literary merit, performance and intangibles — about each story, poem or otherwise, then select their favorite to advance to the finals. The two finalists then compete in the Literary Death Match finale, which trades in the show’s literary sensibility for an absurd and comical climax to determine who takes home the Literary Death Match crown.