Noticias y Blogs

The Road Home by Rose Tremain is Hay Festival Book of the Month for November. Urgently relevant. Beautifully written. First published in 2007, just three years after Poland and nine other countries joined the EU, the novel offers a view of the UK through a migrant’s eyes...

Now the Hay Festival Winter Weekend 2018 programme is online, it's time to get reading. Here's a list of all the books we'll be celebrating over the long weekend, 22-25 November...

Roll up, roll up, and deck the halls! Hay Festival Winter Weekend (22-25 November) brings writers and readers together at the turn of the season for conversation, debate, music and comedy, in the heart of Hay on Wye. Find out more about what's in store...

One of the most remarkable things about this year’s Hay Festival Querétaro was the huge variety and success of the Mexican writers on the programme

We are delighted to have the BBC back at Hay in 2018 with many of their much loved shows - from Radio 4’s Today to World News’ Talking Books - broadcast on TV, radio and online from the festival site.

The YA Book Prize returns to Hay Festival to showcase the very best in YA literature.

Felipe Restrepo Pombo is the British Council's Writer in Residence. In 2017 he was included in the Bogotá39 list of the best Latin American writers under 40, organized by the Hay Festival. He talks about the challenges of a journalist and specially of reporting conflict in countries such as Mexico and Colombia.

Margaret Atwood was one of his pick's of the programme. He was surprised to see her flanked by an entourage of the infamous handmaids and enjoys Margaret's devoted fans.

Marking 100 years since the Armistice in November 1918, Hay Festival Press is publishing an anthology of specially commissioned poems from countries that participated in World War One. 

Hay Festival and Bradford Literature Festival joined forces for the first time to launch a new pupil exchange programme, alongside a series of events specially curated by Bradford Literature Festival at Hay Festival 2018, celebrating the power of culture to help us understand the lives of others.
 
The new student exchange programme sees ten Year 9 pupils from Bradford attend Hay Festival for two nights this May, while ten Year 9 pupils from Powys and Herefordshire will attend Bradford Literature Festival in June. The exchange aims to expand and enrich both groups’ life experiences, encouraging engagement and empathy, and using culture as a powerful transformational tool. 

A competition to celebrate Oxfam's #BooksChangeLives campaign, launched at Hay Festival today. Tell us about the book that changed your life to be in with a chance of winning signed books from Hay favourites. 

This year’s PEN lecture at Hay was delivered by human rights lawyer Philippe Sands, President of the organisation that defends freedom of expression around the world.

Where better to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker  than at the Hay Festival. Philippe Sands, Elif Shafak and Juan Gabriel Vasquez joined Gaby Wood to discuss the shortlist for for the Golden Man Booker prize.

When the winner of the 2018 International Dylan Thomas Prize winner, Kayo Chingonyi, sat down to discuss his winning collection, Kumukanda, the result was a tantalizing hour-long insight into the mind of one of the brightest poets of our generation.