International Writers' Blog

Historian Violet Moller tells us about her new book - The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities - ahead of her Hay Festival Wales appearance...

Posted 19 May 2019 by Violet Moller Read more

Zoe Sear, head of marketing and communications at Triodos Bank UK, handpicks the sustainability-focused talks she’s most looking forward to at Hay Festival 2019...

Posted 19 May 2019 by Zoe Sear Read more

Ben Rawlence, director of Black Mountains College, tells us more about this new educational initiative in the Brecon Beacons National Park ahead of its launch at Hay Festival Wales...

Posted 19 May 2019 by Ben Rawlence Read more

Nina Stibbe, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2019 for her novel Reasons To be Cheerful, answers our 10 questions ahead of her Hay Festival Wales appearance...

Posted 18 May 2019 by Nina Stibbe Read more

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary is Hay Festival Book of the Month for May. Here Anand answers our '10 questions' and talks about the challenge of writing forgotten history, the most shocking discoveries she encountered and her favourite books of the moment...

Posted 1 May 2019 Read more

Awarded annually since Britain’s Olympic year in 2012, Hay Festival Medals draw inspiration from the original Olympic medal given for poetry. Here, silversmith Christopher Hamilton tells us how they are made...

Posted 23 April 2019 by Christopher Hamilton Read more

An extract from Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Hay Festival Book of the Month for April and a generous, honest and true memoir full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life.

Posted 1 April 2019 by Jeanette Winterson Read more

An extract from Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways, Hay Festival Book of the Month for March and a  genre-defining meditation on walking and writing.

Posted 1 March 2019 by Robert Macfarlane Read more

Hay Festival Scribblers Tour takes award-winning writers direct to thousands of school pupils across Wales in inspiring free events. Hip Hop artist and poet Karl Nova shares his diary from the tour's first week of 2019...

Posted 13 February 2019 by Karl Nova Read more

Irene Vasco es autora de libros para niños y jóvenes. Algunos de sus libros más reconocidos son Conjuros y sortilegios, Mambrú perdió la guerra, Jero Carapálida (saga para niños), Paso a paso, Cambio de voz y Lugares fantásticos de Colombia. Fue fundadora de Librería Espantapájaros y de Espantapájaros Taller en Bogotá. Actualmente hace parte de emilibro.com, como consultora y editora de libros digitales para niños y jóvenes.

Publicado 12 febrero 2019 por Irene Vasco Leer mas

Sabrina Duque es una periodista y traductora ecuatoriana, que ganó la Beca Michael Jacobs de crónica viajera en 2018. Sus historias han sido traducidas al portugués, italiano e inglés. En 2015 fue finalista del Premio Gabriel García Márquez de Periodismo, categoría Texto, con el perfil Vasco Pimentel: el oidor, publicado en la revista Etiqueta Negra. En 2019 ha participado en el Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias, Medellín y Jericó.

Publicado 8 febrero 2019 por Sabrina Duque Leer mas

Part 12 in our series from Creative Wales Hay Festival International Fellow 2018/19, Dylan Moore. In this dispatch from Hay Festival Cartagena he reflects on cosmovisions, contradictions, and what happens when you gather writers from around the world to exchange ideas...

Posted 6 February 2019 by Dylan Moore Read more

Part 11 in our series from Creative Wales Hay Festival International Fellow 2018/19, Dylan Moore. With news that Powys, Wales, will close 10 libraries, Dylan Moore writes from Medellín, Colombia, where libraries form the heart of civic regeneration...

Posted 1 February 2019 by Dylan Moore Read more

Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak is Hay Festival Book of the Month for February. Here, the best-selling novelist answers our 10 questions and talks about faith, identity and the danger of absolute truths...

Posted 1 February 2019 by Elif Shafak Read more

Part 10 in our series from Creative Wales Hay Festival International Fellow 2018/19, Dylan Moore. Arriving in Medellín for a whirlwind festival stop, he joins writer and Colombian literacy campaigner Irene Vasco for a tour of the city... 

Posted 1 February 2019 by Dylan Moore Read more

Amanda Levete CBE is an award-winning British architect and the founder and principal of AL_A. Her recent projects include the Victoria & Albert Museum Exhibition Road Quarter in London, the Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, commissioned by EDP; Central Embassy, a 1.5 million sq ft luxury shopping mall and hotel in Bangkok; and a media campus and headquarters building for the broadcaster Sky in London.
 

Posted 30 January 2019 by Amanda Levete Read more

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is Hay Festival Book of the Month for January. Ahead of meeting Adichie at Hay Festival Cartagena, Creative Wales Hay Festival International Fellow 2018/19 Dylan Moore offers his take on the classic novel...

Posted 28 January 2019 by Dylan Moore Read more

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