Evie Wyld
Award-winning novelist Evie Wyld missed the 2020 festival where sessions were held via Zoom due to Covid. We’re delighted 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
Les deux tilleuls
Translator and author of five novels, Francis Grembert, in Les deux tilleuls, paints a moving portrait of his childhood in
Jean Poderos and the publishing profession
All you ever wanted to know about publishing but were afraid to ask! Our friend Jean Poderos has the answer
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ML Longworth – The Vanishing Museum on the Rue Mistral
Mary Lou Longworth is a Canadian author who has written a series of mysteries set in Provence where she lives.
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England is mine
England is Mine, Nicolas Padamsee (Named Best Debut Novel 2024, Observer magazine) Nicolas Padamsee takes his readers on a backstage
Painting and Literature
Drawing and painting are also part of our literature festival. The art exhibition features original works by French and British
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Pastorales
In “Pastorales”, former livestock breeder Violaine Bérot works with a shepherdess and an academic to recreate a contemporary version of