All the events were free. Unless otherwise indicated, all events were in English, translated or summarised in French. * = Event in English only
| Friday 18 June | Saturday 19 June | Sunday 20 June |
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11.00-11.50 Jack Hirschman NO IT U LOVER Introduced by Heather Hartley |
11.00-11.30* Denis Hirson Poetry accompanied by guitarist Mike Dickman |
11.00-11.50 Breyten Breytenbach In conversation with Janine di Giovanni |
11.40-12.30 Fatima Bhutto Politics and Violence in Pakistan In conversation with Janine di Giovanni |
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12.00-12.50* Ian Jack What it Was Like: The Radical Changes in British Life and the Practice of Journalism - What Happens Next? In conversation with Janine di Giovanni |
12.00-13.00 Nam Le & Petina Gappah The World in Short In conversation with Erica Wagner |
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12.45-13.35 Martin Amis The Narrative of Controversy: Martin Amis and Fiction in the Post 9.11 World In conversation with Will Self |
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13.00-13.50 English PEN Writers in Prison Chip Martin & Carole Seymour-Jones in conversation |
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13.15-14.15 Mathias Énard & Raja Shehadeh Writing, Violence and Conflict In conversation with Natalie Levisalles (in French, translated into English) |
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14.00-15.00* Njabulo Ndebele & Sue Cullinan Biography as Political Storytelling in South Africa A public conversation Introduced by Janine di Giovanni |
14.00-15.10* Panel Table ronde What the World Cup Means for Africa: Four Writers Kick the Ball Around Panel chaired by Mark Gevisser, with Breyten Breytenbach, Petina Gappah & Njabulo Ndebele |
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14.30-15.20 Hanif Kureishi Writing the Suburbs, Writing the City In conversation with Steven Gale |
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15.10-16.00 Raja Shehadeh Beyond Borders: Writing out of the Palestinian Enclave In conversation with Steven Gale |
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15.20-15.50* TJ Dema Spoken Word Introduced by Heather Hartley |
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15.30-16.00* Zena Edwards Truth be Told Performance poetry with bass by Acelino de Paula. Introduced by Heather Hartley |
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16.00-16.50 Philip Pullman Storytelling and Authority In conversation with Erica Wagner |
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16.10-17.20* Panel Table ronde Do Books Change Things? Are Things Changing Books? Panel chaired by Ian Jack, with Olivier Postel-Vinay, Philip Pullman & André Schiffrin |
16.10-17.00* Jeanette Winterson Please Don’t Leave Me - The World, The Story, The Self Introduced by Erica Wagner |
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17.00-18.00 Emma Larkin How to Write a Book in a Military Dictatorship In conversation with Steven Gale |
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17.10-18.00 Yusef Komunyakaa Poetry Introduced by Steven Gale |
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17.30-18.00 Natalie Clein Solo Cello in Many Voices |
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18.10-19.00 Will Self Sex, Death and Laughter in the Dark In conversation with Janine di Giovanni Reading from Dorian |
18.10-19.00 David Hare Forty Years as a Playwright In conversation with Janine di Giovanni |
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18.15-19.30* Porchlight Storytelling Strange Bedfellows - Stories of Alliance Hosted by Beth Lisick & Arline Klatte. Participants: Robert Mailer Anderson, Agneta Falk, Gentry Lane, Alfonso Montuori |
