Hay Festival Classics
Hay Festival Classics relaunches a series of unforgettable events from different Hay Festivals, featuring some of the most outstanding figures from the world of literature and ideas. With a fresh viewpoint and subtitles in Spanish, we present conversations that will never lose their power. At the 2014 Hay Festival in Wales, the US novelist, essayist and academic, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved and the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, spoke to Peter Florence about Beloved.
Fictions – Beloved
The novelist discusses her classic 1987 novel of slavery and racism in America. Also see events 235 and 260
Fictions – Beloved
The novelist discusses her classic 1987 novel of slavery and racism in America. Also see events 235 and 260
Shakespeare 450 – Desdemona
The novelist talks about her play written in response to Shakespeare’s Othello. Her workis an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse Barbary. Morrison gives voice and depth to the female characters, letting them speak and sing in the fullness of their hearts.
Other events in the Shakespeare 450 series - 34, 55 and 446.
Shakespeare 450 – Desdemona
The novelist talks about her play written in response to Shakespeare’s Othello. Her workis an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse Barbary. Morrison gives voice and depth to the female characters, letting them speak and sing in the fullness of their hearts.
Other events in the Shakespeare 450 series - 34, 55 and 446.
In Conversation
A wide-ranging interview with the American Nobel Laureate, author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Jazz and Home.
Also see events 211 and 235
In Conversation
A wide-ranging interview with the American Nobel Laureate, author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Jazz and Home.
Also see events 211 and 235