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‘The most provocative festival in Spain’ El Mundo

Dates for the fifth Hay Festival Segovia are 18–26 September 2010.

The programme will be announced here on 3 September.

Thank you for making Hay. It was a blast. We’re getting ready now for Hay Festival Segovia in Spain. Please join us if you can.

The dates for next year are 26 May–5 June 2011.

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Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias will celebrate its sixth year in 2011, filling the Caribbean city with literature, discussion, culture, debate and celebration over four days, 27–30 January.

The festival is well-known for its multiculturalism and social commitment.

Some photos from the 2010 festival...

Beirut39 inspires a fresh look at modern Arab literature. A collaboration between the Hay Festival and Beirut World Capital of the Book 2009, the project brings together 39 of the best known and loved writers of Arab heritage under 39 years of age. Discover new voices in Arab literature...

More about the 39 authors selected for Beirut39...

During the Hay Festival in Wales this year, The Black Box in Belfast hosted the best of Hay, flavoured with some local spirit. Events included Simon Singh, Yann Martel and Hugh Ambrose.

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‘Hay hoovers up the best writers published in the world. This has over the years, created a self-reinforcing phenomenon: they get the best, and so the best want to come.’ The Guardian

The first Hay Festival in Zacatecas, Mexico, was a great success. Thank you for joining us. ‘The heart of the Hay Festival in Zacatecas was just one thing: conversation’ El Economista

La primera edición del Hay Festival Zacatecas fue todo un éxito. Gracias por acompañarnos. ‘El corazón del Hay Festival en Zacatecas fue uno solo: la conversación’ El Economista

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Thank you for making Brecon Jazz such a blast.

Please let us know what you thought and how we might improve next year’s event.

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Storymoja Hay Festival Nairobi is a three-day celebration that will provide opportunities for the meeting of minds and sharing of ideas between storytellers and the public. The Festival will act as a platform for readers, writers, listeners and thinkers and provide exposure to some of the world’s leading names in literature as well as some up-and-coming authors.

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One of the world’s most hopeful new democracies is threatened by rising tides caused by global warming.

Hay Festival Maldives seeks to understand the climatic change affecting the area, to explore the issues of this and other imperilled cultures, to celebrate the riches of the archipelago civilization and to investigate what is special and unique about island life and mindset.

Further information on Hay Festival Maldives...

Hay Festival journeys to Kerala, India, at the end of 2010.

The three-day programme of events will include authors and speakers from India and across the world, gathering among the tranquil waterways and lush hill stations of this tropical southern state.

More information on Hay Festival Kerala...