International Writers' Blog

Something of his Art by Horatio Clare is Hay Festival Book of the Month for December. Here he answers our '10 questions' and talks about and following the footsteps of Bach, life as a travel writer, and his favourite books...

Posted 1 December 2018 by Horatio Clare Read more

Historian Tracy Borman appeared at Hay Festival Winter Weekend to discuss her new book Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him. Here she shares her thoughts on the "town of books"...

Posted 30 November 2018 by Tracy Borman Read more

Historian and curator Andrew Green joined us at Hay Festival Winter Weekend to present his new book Wales in 100 Objects. He reflects on is first Hay appearance...

Posted 29 November 2018 by Andrew Green Read more

Canadian writer Katie Munnik reflects on a day of self-development at Hay Festival Winter Weekend where she took part in the Literature Wales Writers at Work sessions...

Posted 26 November 2018 by Katie Munnik Read more

Writer, poet and musician Gwyneth Glyn presented the live experience of her new album Tro at Hay Festival Winter Weekend on Saturday 24 November 2018 with band members Rowan Rheingans, Dylan Fowler and Gillian Stevens. And a warm Hay welcome was waiting...

Posted 25 November 2018 by Gwyneth Glyn Read more

Ahead of Mid Wales Opera's new SmallStages production of Ravel's L'heure espagnole launching Hay Festival Winter Weekend, Mid Wales Opera's Music Director Jonathan Lyness offers an insight into the new musical arrangement for the piece.

Posted 22 November 2018 by Jonathan Lyness Read more

Frank Báez (Santo Domingo, 1978) es autor de los poemarios Postales, Anoche soñé que era un DJ y Llegó el fin del mundo a mi barrio. Ha publicado un volumen de cuentos, Págales tú a los psicoanalistas, tres libros de crónicas reunidos en La Trilogía de los Festivales y una recopilación de ensayos titulada Lo que trajo el mar. Recientemente publicó Este es el futuro que estabas esperando. Fue seleccionado por el Hay Festival dentro de la lista de autores del Bogotá 39-2017. 

Publicado 18 noviembre 2018 por Frank Báez Leer mas

Part 9 in our series from Creative Wales Hay Festival International Fellow 2018/19, Dylan Moore. From queso helado to black holes, Dylan reflects on the conversations underway at Hay Festival Arequipa...

Posted 12 November 2018 by Dylan Moore Read more

Part 8 in our series from Creative Wales Hay Festival International Fellow 2018/19, Dylan Moore. At Hay Festival Arequipa, Dylan speaks to Danish writer Janne Teller and visits Momia Juanita...

Posted 11 November 2018 by Dylan Moore Read more

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Part 6 in our series of dispatches from Creative Wales Hay Festival International Fellow 2018/19, Dylan Moore. Here he travels to Hay Festival Arequipa, 36,000 feet over the Andes, in search of his own lost treasure...

Posted 9 November 2018 by Dylan Moore Read more

Cherie Dimaline is a Metis fiction writer who has won the Governor General's Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Amy Mathers Award for her latest book The Marrow Thieves, a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2017, which has stayed at the top of the Canadian young reader's bestseller list for over a year.  

Posted 9 November 2018 by Cherie Dimaline Read more

Ingrid Bejerman es periodista, profesora y promotora cultural, especializada en reportajes de temas latinoamericanos y enseñanza del periodismo. Actualmente es coordinadora de la iniciativa Canada in the Americas en el Instituto McGill para el Estudio de Canadá. 

Publicado 8 noviembre 2018 por Ingrid Bejerman Leer mas

Rosemary Sullivan is a poet, biographer, and anthologist. She has worked with Amnesty International since 1979, and in 1980 she founded a congress to aid its activities. Sullivan was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2012. In 2015, she won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Stalin's Daughter, her biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva. Rosemary Sullivan will be part of the Hay Festival Arequipa 2018

Posted 8 November 2018 by Rosemary Sullivan Read more

The Road Home by Rose Tremain is Hay Festival Book of the Month for November. Here she answers our '10 questions' and talks about the novel's contemporary resonance, her favourite fiction, and what she's working on now...

Posted 1 November 2018 by Rose Tremain Read more

Ahead of his appearance at Hay Festival Winter Weekend next month, Andrew Green, a former Librarian of the National Library of Wales and author of Wales in 100 Objects, offers a preview of Object 82: ‘Two Suffragette dolls’... 

Posted 23 October 2018 by Andrew Green Read more

Ahead of Mid Wales Opera's new SmallStages production of Ravel's L'heure espagnole coming to Hay Festival Winter Weekend, Mid Wales Opera's Artistic Director Richard Studer offers an insight into preparing a new translation of this opera comedy...

Posted 11 October 2018 by Richard Studer Read more

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Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods by Tishani Doshi is Hay Festival's Book of the Month for October. Here she answers our '10 questions' and talks about the process of writing poetry, her favourite books of the moment, and what she's working on now...

Posted 2 October 2018 by Tishani Doshi Read more

Posted 26 September 2018 by Dylan Moore Read more