Evie Wyld
Award-winning novelist Evie Wyld missed the 2020 festival where sessions were held via Zoom due to Covid. We’re delighted to […]
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A Thousand Unfinished Lives. Songs of Revolt, Freedom, and Love.
“I come from a country where writers are either imprisoned or killed. My poems are nothing but an ode to
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Colette Olive and Editions Verdier
Verdier: A Beautiful, Independent Publishing House, open to the World. Verdier Publishing was founded in 1979 by four young left-wing
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Watch this space!
Gurnaik Johal’s debut novel, Saraswati takes the reader on a long voyage through the lives of an extended Punjabi family.
“Poetry gives meaning to the people who are suffering”
In her powerful new book, I Brought the War With Me, journalist and war correspondent Lindsey Hilsum explores how poetry
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Amadou Barry
Amadou Barry was born in Guinea. Journal d’un exilé (Diary of an Exile) is his first novel. Stranded on the
Josephine Baker’s Secret War, Hanna Diamond
A jewel for the Festilitt line-up, historian Hanna Diamond, a professor of French history at Cardiff University, will join us
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“Remettre le western à l’endroit”
What is the connection between Colette Magny and Verfeil-sur-Seye? This great lady of French chanson—an exacting, committed, rebellious, and defiant
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Get onboard for a theatrical journey !
An unmissable and priceless moment on Sunday 12 October ! De Parisot with Love Irina Lopèriol and Mandy Govey, co-authors
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Our Evenings
It is a great privilege to welcome Sir Alan Hollinghurst to Festilitt this year. His latest novel, Our Evenings is
What is the Safari Gourmand ?
Friends of FESTILITT, As a prelude to the festival, FESTILITT invites you to take part in a Safari Gourmand on
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Les deux tilleuls
Translator and author of five novels, Francis Grembert, in Les deux tilleuls, paints a moving portrait of his childhood in
GET WITH THE PROGRAMME!
For its thirteenth edition, from October 10 to 12, FESTILITT 2025 is honored to welcome five French authors and five
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Autumn leaves and FESTILITT returns…
FESTILITT returns to Parisot (82) for the 13th time! Be sure to mark your calendars for the annual literary event
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FESTILITT AGM 2025
Dear Festilitt friends, We’re already hard at work for the 2025 festival and the first milestone is ourAGM which will
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FESTILITT: Grand Loto.
Festilitt 2024 may have only just finished, but we are already planning next year’s. As you can imagine, putting on
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