Book News: PEN America’s World Voices Festival, Literary Awards to return
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Born more than 5,500 miles apart, the Booker prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, 65, and Brazilâs most celebrated living Black author, Conceição Evaristo, 77, share the same surname, though they are â as... Read more »
âI miss my solitude,â last yearâs Booker prize winner Paul Lynch told an audience at Hay festival on Saturday. âIn many ways I didnât sign up for this. Iâm an introvert whoâs... Read more »
The historian David Olusoga has said the UK is the one country left in the British empire as he likened it to being the last oblivious person at a party. Asked at... Read more »
Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has said global progress on gender equality is âreally glacial and slowâ as she warned that it is going backwards among young people. Gillard cited recent... Read more »
The Edinburgh international book festival (EIBF) has announced the end of its 20-year partnership with Baillie Gifford. Last week the Hay literary festival also dropped its sponsorship from the investment management firm... Read more »
The Hay literary festival has dropped its principal sponsor after boycotts from speakers and performers over the firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel companies. The singer Charlotte Church and the comedian... Read more »
Labour MP Dawn Butler and author Grace Blakeley are among those who have withdrawn from scheduled appearances at Hay festival over its sponsorship by investment management firm Baillie Gifford. Butler said in... Read more »
PEN America cancels 2024 world voices festival amid further fallout Apr 29 2024 Less than a week after canceling its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony following months of steadily mounting criticism over the... Read more »