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Hay Festival will host a free “flash fiction” session for adults at the University of South Wales’ Newport campus on Friday 7 February, running alongside the planned Hay Festival Scribblers Tour activities for local Year 7 and Year 8 pupils...

Posted 14 January 2020 Read more

 أعلنت اللجنة المنظّمة لـ "مهرجان هاي" اليوم عن برنامج فعاليات وأحداث الدورة الأولى من المهرجان المقرر تنظيمه في العاصمة الإماراتية أبوظبي خلال الفترة 25 – 28 فبراير 2020، بدعم من وزارة التسامح في دولة الإمارات، بمشاركة مجموعة بارزة من الحائزين على الجوائز من الكتّاب والصحفيين والمؤرخين وصنّاع الأفلام والفنانين خلال برنامج حافل من الطراز العالمي تتخلله نحو 100 فعالية على مدار أربعة أيام 

Posted 8 January 2020 Read more

Hay Festival has today announced the line-up for the first edition of Hay Festival Abu Dhabi (25-28 February 2020)...

Posted 8 January 2020 Read more

El Hay Festival y el Consejo de Investigación del Medio Ambiente Natural del Reino Unido (NERC, una parte de UK Research and Innovation) han presentado hoy Glacier Shallap, o la triste historia de un glaciar moribundo, un cortometraje de la escritora y actriz Erika Stockholm, basado en el trabajo de la profesora del Instituto Cabot, Jemma Wadham, y su equipo de expertos en glaciología en los Altos Andes.

Publicado 18 diciembre 2019 Leer mas

Hay Festival and the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, a part of UK Research and Innovation) have today unveiled Glacier Shallap – Or the Sad Tale of a Dying Glacier, the latest piece in the Trans.MISSION II series...

Posted 18 December 2019 Read more

Hay Festival Wales has today announced eight 'earlybird' events for its 33rd edition, 21-31 May 2020, previewing a programme covering great works of fiction, activism and world music, along with a new Shakespeare’s Globe partnership...

Posted 9 December 2019 Read more

The Mabinogi by Matthew Francis is Hay Festival Book of the Month for December, a collection of prose tales of war and enchantment, adventure and romance...

Posted 1 December 2019 Read more

Activists Rosa Lynas (12), Tara Fox (12) and Grace Kerr Robertson (13) marked the global climate strike at Winter Weekend today alongside writers Jackie Morris and Nicola Davies...

Posted 29 November 2019 Read more

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold has been named Hay Festival Book of the Year 2019 at the opening of Hay Festival Winter Weekend today...

Posted 28 November 2019 Read more

Chloe Aridjis and Daniel Saldaña Paris have been named winners of the 2020 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award. 

Posted 25 November 2019 Read more

Hay Festival and the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) have today unveiled the Colombian strand of their Trans.MISSION II collaboration, a global project pairing leading environmental researchers with award-winning storytellers...

Posted 19 November 2019 Read more

Hay Festival Cartagena has today announced its 15th programme, 30 January-2 February 2020, with global literary stars, Nobel Prize-winners and internationally acclaimed performers leading a line-up that encompasses 140 speakers in 160 events over four days...

Posted 19 November 2019 Read more

An Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) medal has been awarded to Hay Festival international director Cristina Fuentes La Roche by HM The Queen...

Posted 7 November 2019 Read more

El Hay Festival Arequipa 2019 ha sido inaugurado hoy, en un concurrido acto celebrado en la Biblioteca Mario Vargas Llosa con la presencia de las autoridades, autores y medios de comunicación. El Hay Festival Arequipa se celebrará del 7 al 10 de noviembre, con una agenda repleta de eventos sobre literatura, ciencia, feminismo, periodismo, música y actualidad.

Publicado 7 noviembre 2019 Leer mas

Moquegua vivirá por primera vez la magia del Hay Festival este miércoles 6 y jueves 7 de noviembre, con varios participantes que invitaron a todos los moqueguanos a imaginar el mundo. El patrocinio de AngloAmerican, y la colaboración del Gobierno Regional de Moquegua, la Municipalidad Provincial Mariscal Nieto y de los agentes culturales y medios de comunicación han hecho posible el Hay Forum Moquegua.

Publicado 6 noviembre 2019 Leer mas

La Biblioteca Británica y el Hay Festival revelan la lista de preseleccionados para el Premio de Escritura del Centro Eccles & el Hay Festival 2020. La lista de ocho representantes contempla escritores de ambos lados del Atlántico y muestra una vibrante selección de narraciones latinoamericanas, tanto de ficción como de no-ficción.

Publicado 6 noviembre 2019 Leer mas

The British Library and Hay Festival are delighted to reveal the shortlist for the 2020 Eccles Centre &Hay Festival Writer’s Award. The eight-strong list features writers from both sides of the Atlantic and showcases a vibrant selection of Latin American storytelling through both fiction and non-fiction...

Posted 5 November 2019 Read more

Hay Festival Scribblers Tour will take five award-winning YA writers direct to thousands of school pupils across Wales throughout February 2020, in inspiring free events hosted at five Welsh universities...

Posted 4 November 2019 Read more

Behold, America by Sarah Churchwell is Hay Festival Book of the Month for November, exploring the surprising history of phrases that are seeing a resurgence in Trump's America - 'The American Dream' and 'America First' - and what they can tell us about the country today.

Posted 1 November 2019 Read more

BBC broadcaster Cerys Matthews will switch on Hay-on-Wye’s Christmas lights next month as part of her Hay Festival Winter Weekend appearance on Friday 29 November...

Posted 31 October 2019 Read more