Blog of festival
Colette Olive and Editions Verdier
Verdier: A Beautiful, Independent Publishing House, open to the World. Verdier Publishing was founded in 1979 by…
Watch this space!
Gurnaik Johal’s debut novel, Saraswati takes the reader on a long voyage through the lives of an…
“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…
Amadou Barry
Amadou Barry was born in Guinea. Journal d’un exilé (Diary of an Exile) is his first novel….
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,…
“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,…
Get onboard for a theatrical journey !
An unmissable and priceless moment on Sunday 12 October ! De Parisot with Love Irina Lopèriol and…
Our Evenings
It is a great privilege to welcome Sir Alan Hollinghurst to Festilitt this year. His latest novel,…
What is the Safari Gourmand ?
Friends of FESTILITT, As a prelude to the festival, FESTILITT invites you to take part in a…
Les deux tilleuls
Translator and author of five novels, Francis Grembert, in Les deux tilleuls, paints a moving portrait of…
GET WITH THE PROGRAMME!
For its thirteenth edition, from October 10 to 12, FESTILITT 2025 is honored to welcome five French…
Autumn leaves and FESTILITT returns…
FESTILITT returns to Parisot (82) for the 13th time! Be sure to mark your calendars for the…
FESTILITT AGM 2025
Dear Festilitt friends, We’re already hard at work for the 2025 festival and the first milestone is…
FESTILITT: Grand Loto.
Festilitt 2024 may have only just finished, but we are already planning next year’s. As you can…
Festilitt 2024: an excellent vintage!
The twelfth annual festival of French and English literature, FESTILITT 2024, took place in Parisot from October…
FESTILITT IS (nearly) HERE!
“Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go…