Worlds Literature Festival

What? Worlds Literature Festival takes place in Norwich every year towards the end of June. It brings together writers from around the world in a week of events, readings and discussion. Not to be confused with the World Literature Weekend organised by the London Review of Books.

This year the Worlds Literature Festival is taking place from 19th-23rd June and� includes a Norfolk wide reading campaign called Summer Reads. Throughout the week there will be some great public events with Joseph O'Connor, John Boyne, A.S. Byatt, Hisham Matar and many more, and a full programme of events for the many writers flying in from across the world.�

Who? 2012 TBA

When? June

Where? Venues in Norwich and Norfolk , England. AA Route Planner | multimap

How much? £2 - £7

Festival Website: Norwich Writers' Centre

Previous festivals: JM Coetzee, CK Williams, Gwenyth Lewis, Jay Griffiths -

2011 Programme

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 Library, 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.