The Marlborough Literature Festival which brings together some of the UK's finest writers to celebrate literature in all its forms in this historic market town. With fine writing at its heart the programme includes some of the UK's best known writers as well as new and emerging talent. The programme embraces adult and children's fiction, non-fiction, biography, journalism and poetry
A notable event in that it is sponsored by the The Authors's Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) a membership organisation run by writers for writers to protect and promote author's rights. Excellent. Check out what they can do for you if you are an author at www.alcs.co.uk.
When? 2nd-4th Oct, 2015
Who? 2015 TBA
Where? Various venues throughout Marlborough, Wiltshire
Festival Website? www.marlboroughlitfest.org
2014 - Booked - AC Grayling, Jenny Uglow & Rowan Williams
In 2011, Sir Michael Holroyd CBE, Evie Wyld , Judy Golding, Anna Sebba, Judy Golding, Peter Davison, Nick Fogg, David Edgar, Deborah Moggach, Helen Casor and more
Sir Michael Holroyd CBE- As a campaigner for the promotion of literature, Michael is a natural inclusion in our festival. His works have been published since 1964 and his volume on Lytton Strachey was a landmark in contemporary biography. Other subjects have included Bernard Shaw and Augustus John. Michael has suggested A Book of Secrets may be his last yet many see it is as a work of the master at the height of his powers.
Evie Wyld (above) - For the past four decades Granta and The BBC's Culture Show have predicted the debut novelists who would go on to become our pre-eminent writers. Past selections have included the likes of Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes. We're delighted to welcome Evie Wyld, nominee from the recent list of the twelve to watch for the future, to speak about her acclaimed 1st novel.
Judy Golding - William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, Rites of Passage and many more, was one of the most iconoclastic and revered authors of the 20th Century. A resident of both Marlborough and Salisbury, his Wiltshire connections influenced novels such as The Spire and The Pyramid. Judy, born in Marlborough, will talk about her new book The Children of Lovers.
2010 Authors? Margaret Drabble, Lynn Barber, Valerie Grove, Anne Chisholm, Tim Dee and Rachel Polonsky, Cressida Cowell (left), Josh Mowll, Don Paterson morehttp://www.marlboroughwiltshire.co.uk/
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