Jan Inge Reilstad

Stavanger, Norway

Director and festival manager

I am currently general manager and creative director for KÅKÅ kverulantkatedralen, which is a debate and literature house in Stavanger, Norway. I am the festival manager for KÅKÅnomics, the first economy festival in the nordic countries. Cand.philol. in social studies and humanities with literature as main subject from the University of Bergen in 1998. From 2009-2012 I was a fellow researcher (phd) at the University of Stavanger (social media, youth & news, citizenship and vernacular literacies). From 2012-2014 positioned at the Norwegian Reading Centre as assistant professor. I have been a writer, critic, editor and curator in the field of contemporary art and literature from about 1995. Born to be kind, old to be wild.