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Hay Festival and Serious Readers will join forces to create a new space for book lovers at Hay Festival 2019 - the Serious Reading Room - in a new partnership announced today...

Posted 19 February 2019 Read more

La XIV edición del Hay Festival que engalanó a Colombia con letras, imágenes, notas musicales, conversaciones sobre economía, ciencia, activismo, y un sinnúmero de ideas transformadoras. Durante más de cuatro días, a través de más de 190 eventos en escenarios de Cartagena, Medellín, Jericó y varios municipios, mas de 60.000 personas disfrutaron de esta gran fiesta de la cultura.

Publicado 5 febrero 2019 Read more

More than 60,000 people attend Hay Festival events in Colombia over the past fortnight, with writers and readers gathering for conversations and performances in Cartagena, Medellín, and, for the first time, Jericó.

Posted 5 February 2019 Read more

Hip-Hop artist and poet Karl Nova releases Scribbling Dreams to mark the start of Hay Festival Scribblers Tour 2019, which takes writers direct to pupils all over Wales for the next fortnight...

Posted 4 February 2019 Read more

Hay Festival has signed a new three-year agreement with the Municipality of the City of Querétaro, Mexico, securing the future of Hay Festival Querétaro for a further three years, with three speakers already announced for 2019...

Posted 3 February 2019 Read more

El Municipio de Querétaro y el Hay Festival han cimentado la presencia del festival para al menos tres ediciones más. Ambas instituciones han firmado la alianza en el marco de su edición hermana de Cartagena de Indias. El Hay Festival Querétaro 2019 se celebrará del 5 al 8 de septiembre.

Publicado 3 febrero 2019 Read more

Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak is Hay Festival Book of the Month for February, a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal...

Posted 1 February 2019 Read more

Today begins the first Hay Festival Jericó, with the screening of Jericó, el infinito vuelo de los días documentary film. Literature, journalism, music and environment will be the topics to be discussed in the following three cultural days, which are the beginning of Hay Festival events in Colombia.

Posted 25 January 2019 Read more

Hoy 25 de enero comienza el primer Hay Festival Jericó con la proyección del documental Jericó, el infinito vuelo de los días. Literatura, periodismo, música y medioambiente serán los temas que se tratarán durante todo el fin de semana. ¡Bienvenidos a nuestra programación, Jericó!

Publicado 25 enero 2019 Read more

Jimmy Carr, Stacey Dooley, The Gipsy Kings, The Waterboys and Spell Songs join 32nd Hay Festival in Hay on Wye, 23 May-2 June...

Posted 23 January 2019 Read more

The Eccles Centre at the British Library will partner Hay Festival for its prestigious annual Writer’s Award, a prize of £20,000 for a current writing project exploring the Americas (North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean).

Posted 17 January 2019 Read more

Lawyer, campaigner and award-winning writer Philippe Sands QC has been appointed to the Hay Festival board of Directors. 

Posted 16 January 2019 Read more

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is Hay Festival Book of the Month for January. A powerful, tender story of race and identity, Americanah has been published in 29 languages and won numerous awards...

Posted 1 January 2019 Read more

Hay Festival founder and director Peter Florence will chair the Man Booker Prize 2019, it has been announced today, alongside a panel comprised of: former fiction publisher and editor Liz Calder; novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo; writer and broadcaster Afua Hirsch and pianist and composer Joanna MacGregor...

Posted 11 December 2018 Read more

UK outdoor retailer Mountain Warehouse will become the official camping and kit provider for Hay Festival Wales 2019 after a new partnership agreement was signed today, marking the festival’s first national clothing retailer collaboration, and covering events and digital promotion...

Posted 7 December 2018 Read more

Leila Slimani, Anna Burns, Markus Zusak, Jared Diamond, Venki Ramakrishnan, Robert Macfarlane, Horatio Clare, Julia Donaldson, Michael Rosen and Sandi Toksvig to appear at 32nd festival, plus all-star Diaries Live and Speeches Live performances confirmed...

Posted 3 December 2018 Read more

Something of his Art by Horatio Clare is Hay Festival Book of the Month for December, a unique travel journal that follows Clare's recreation of the walk that J. S. Bach took in the depths of winter in 1705 – his long walk to Lübeck across northern Germany.

Posted 1 December 2018 Read more

Hay Festival Winter Weekend closed Sunday 25 November 2018 after a four-day global celebration of ideas that saw thousands enjoy events across the "town of books".

Posted 26 November 2018 Read more

Inventing Ourselves by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is named Hay Festival Book of the Year 2018 on the opening day of Hay Festival Winter Weekend begins today, kicking off a four-day global celebration of ideas with writers, thinkers and entertainers, alongside a rich strand of workshops, woodland walks and town festivities.

Posted 22 November 2018 Read more

Fiction and dissent: Hay Festival has today announced the programme for Hay Festival Cartagena, 31 January-3 February 2019, with global literary stars, Nobel Prize-winners and internationally acclaimed performers leading a programme that encompasses 130 speakers in 150 events over four days.

Posted 21 November 2018 Read more