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Kishwar Desai and Ann Patchett
Fictions: Women’s Lives
Two astounding novels explore mysteries and extremes. Desai’s Witness The Night is set in India and won the Costa First Book Prize. Orange Prize-winner Patchett’s State of Wonder is set in Brazil. Chaired by Lisa Dwan.Hay Festival 2011, Saturday 28 May 2011, 1pm
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Open Mic compèred by Lisa Dwan
Roll up! All readings are (rigorously) 5 minutes long. If you have a ticket and you’d like to read, please email siobhan@hayfestival.com with ‘Open Mic’ in the title line to book a slot. Readings can be prose or poetry.Please note slots are open to unpublished writers only.
All proceeds to support the education initiatives of the Festivals of Literature Charitable TrustHay Festival 2011, Sunday 29 May 2011, 9.45pm
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Sarah Winman, Téa Obreht, Mirza Waheed and Sam Leith talk to Lisa Dwan
Fictions: Waterstone’s Eleven
We profile four of the emerging novelists championed in the Waterstone’s new writing promotion. Winman’s <spanstyle="font-style: italic;"="">When God Was a Rabbit is a family story set over four decades; Obreht’s <spanstyle="font-style: italic;"="">The Tiger’s Wife resonates over three generations in the Balkans; Waheed’sThe Collaborator is set in the heart of terrible conflict in 1990s Kashmir. Leith’s The Coincidence Engine conjures The Directorate of The Extremely Improbable and a chase across America.
Trailer for The Coincidence Engine
Find more information about these titles at waterstones.comHay Festival 2011, Monday 30 May 2011, 1pm
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A Poetry Reading for Josephine Hart
We'll be holding a Poetry Reading in tribute to our friend and champion of poetry, who died yesterday.Bob Geldof reads Yeats and Keats, Lisa Dwan reads Heaney, Peter Florence reads Wilfred Owen. More readers will be announced tomorrow.Hay Festival 2011, Sunday 5 June 2011, 11.30am
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Lisa Dwan
Beside the Sea
The actress reprises her SBC triumph of Veronique Olmi’s haunting Beside The Sea about a mother who is driven to the extremes of mental and physical despair. Performance, and discussion chaired by Stephanie Merritt.Hay Festival 2012, Monday 4 June 2012, 8.30pm
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Victoria Hislop talks to Lisa Dwan
The Thread
The novelist discusses her epic Greek romance set across C20th Thessaloniki. Hislop is the best-selling author of The Island, The Return and One Cretan Evening.Hay Festival 2012, Friday 8 June 2012, 1pm
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Glenn Patterson and David Vann talk to Lisa Dwan
Fictions - Place
Patterson’s Belfast-set The Mill for Grinding Old People Young is a novel about a young man caught up in the political fever of the times and a love story about discovering who you are and how you define yourself; Vann’s Dirt, set in Sacramento, focuses on a family tragedy and the enveloping landscape.Hay Festival 2012, Saturday 9 June 2012, 11.30am
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