Worlds Literature Festival used to take place in Norwich every year towards the end of June. Now become the City of Literature Weekend Saturday 21 - Sunday 22 , 2016. None tells us nofink
When? Check TBC Norwich Writers' Centre
Who? 2016 TBA
Where? Venues in Norwich and Norfolk , England.
How much? £2 - £7
Festival Website: Norwich Writers' Centre
Previous festivals: JM Coetzee, CK Williams, Gwenyth Lewis, Jay Griffiths,Joseph O'Connor, John Boyne, A.S. Byatt, Hisham Matar
2013 - Sarah Hall, Rozalie Hirs, Rachida Lamrabet, Bejan Matur, Marcel Möring and Neel Mukherjee,Rebecca Swift, Esther Freud, Samuel West and Sjón,Pedro Carmona Alvarez, Michelle de Kretser, Masashi Matsuie with Michael Emmerich, and Ruth Ozeki.
Granta F Word, the Launch with A.S. Byatt (left)
Monday 20th June, UEA Drama Studio, 7pm. Tickets £5
This will be an enthralling evening of conversation, writing and wine with A.S. Byatt, Urvashi Butalia and Maja Hrgovic at the launch of Granta Magazine's The F Word edition. All three authors will read from their work and discuss feminism in the 21st Century and women in writing with Granta Deputy Editor, Ellah Allfrey OBE.
Your Summer Reads event with Katie Kitamura, Andrey Kurkov & Evie Wyld
Tuesday 21st June, Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Lib
rary, 6.30pm. Tickets £2.
Join us at the Norfolk & Norwich Millennium Library and get even more from this year's Summer Reads programme with Summer Reads authors Katie Kitamura, Andrey Kurkov & Evie Wyld. This is your chance to meet the authors, hear them read from their books and pose any questions you'sve been dying to ask.
World Voices for Refugee Week with Hisham Matar, Tahmima Anam & Philo Ikonya
Wednesday 22nd June, Norwich Playhouse, 8pm. Tickets £7, £5 concessions
Literary sensation Hisham Matar returns to Norwich to launch and read from his brilliant new novelAnatomy of a Disappearance. He will be joined by Tahmima Anam, author of the award winning A Golden Age who will read from The Good Muslim and International Cities of Refuge writer Philo Ikonya.
Joseph O'Connor and John Boyne celebrating Norwich UNESCO City of Literature
Thursday 23rd June, UEA Lecture Theatre 1, 7pm. Tickets £5
An evening with two brilliant writers from Dublin, UNESCO City of Literature. John Boyne, author of The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas will read from his new novel The Absolutist set in war-time Norwich. Joseph O'sConnor, author of Star of the Sea will read from his exhilarating love story Ghost Light. An evening sure to inspire and move you.
If you are involved in this festival you can update or change details via the organisers page . Authors can list here.