Evie Wyld
The award-winning novelist Evie Wyld joined us via Zoom in 2020 for the covid version Festilitt, and we’re thrilled to […]
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