Spring is here. Sigh.
(It reminds of a small poem by Piet Hein, paraphrasing: winter is here, I am tired. Spring is here, tired again.)

#gatekunst #streetart #stavanger #rogaland #norge #norway #februar2026 #streetartfebruary2026 #jaune #stencil #vågen

Bicycling and street art is the best combination.

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I am a big reader, and my year is split in two parts by Booker International in February and The Booker Prize longlist in July. What I love about the announcement of longlists are all the new authors I get to read. Last year I discovered New York based Katie Kitamura, a new favorite author of mine. I also had great fun reading Eurotrash by Swiss author Christian Kracht.

This year I discovered that six Norwegian writers are eligible to the longlist in February, their books have been translated and published in UK/Irland the last year. Maybe we will see Knausgård there?

Anyway, our main library in Stavanger is "The Silver Hill", smack in the middle of the city, and on the second day of snow here I took a ride on mye day off, to fetch a couple of those books.

The snow is already melting, and next week there will probably be rain - that is how long our winter here on the west coast of Norway is.

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Türkei-Expertin: Vage Vorwürfe gegen Gefangene http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr2/audio-tuerkei-expertin-gefangene-werden-unter-vagen-anschuldigungen-festgehalten-100.html #WDR2 #allgemein #Türkei #Gefangene #werden #unter #vagen