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One for your diary: The Sunday Times Oxford Literary festival
Saturday, March 20 is the date of this year’s Sunday Times Oxford Literary festival. It really is a must-attend event for book lovers with organisers delighted with the quality of the line-up they have assembled. John le Carré will give a lecture within the Sheldonian Theatre, and other big names include Martin Amis, Hilary Mantel and Philip Pullman, who will talk in public for the first time about his controversial forthcoming novel, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
Running until March 28, the nine-day celebration of books and literature is even bigger and better this year, taking place over two complete weekends and featuring hundreds of writers and events.
AS Byatt, the Booker-winning novelist, will accept an honorary fellowship at a dinner on Thursday night, and then appear on Friday as one of the judges when the inaugural winner of The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the biggest prize of its kind in the world, will be announced.
The children’s programme will include everyone from Anthony Horowitz to Meg Rosoff and Geraldine McCaughrean, author of Fantasy Book Review’s Book of the Month The Death-Defying Pepper Roux.
You can also sign up to the third Fiction Creative Writing Course, a five-day all-inclusive residential course from March 20 to 26, with masterclasses by Helen Dunmore, Joanne Harris and Julie Myerson. To find out more, telephone 07540 188564 or email creativewriting@oxfordliteraryfestival.com.
Writers and artists confirmed for this year’s festival are:
- Martin Amis
- Gaynor Arnold
- Antony Beevor
- Malorie Blackman
- Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Melvyn Bragg
- John Burnside
- AS Byatt
- John le Carré
- Zizou Corder (Louisa Young)
- Richard Dawkins
- David Dimbleby
- Antonia Fraser
- Adele Geras
- Ben Goldacre
- John Gray
- Frances Hardinge
- Joanne Harris
- Robert Harris
- Max Hastings
- Victoria Hislop
- Anthony Horowitz
- Will Hutton
- PD James
- Steve Jones
- Anthony Julius
- Shappi Khorsandi
- Andrew Lane
- Penelope Lively
- Hilary Mantel
- Neil MacGregor
- Anita Mason
- Ian McEwan
- Don McCullin
- Brian Moore
- Blake Morrison
- William Nicholson
- Susie Orbach
- Mal Peet
- Tim Pigott-Smith
- Philip Pullman
- Craig Raine
- Andrew Rawnsley
- Philip Reeve
- Ruth Rendell
- Louise Rennison
- Meg Rosoff
- James Shapiro
- Lionel Shriver
- Ali Sparkes
- Simon Singh
- Patti Smith
- Norman Tebbit
- Rose Tremain
- Joanna Trollope
- Lynne Truss
- Shirley Williams
Tickets are on sale now; to see the festival programme and book online, visit www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com, or telephone 0870 343 1001.
Posted: January 18th, 2010
Author: Lee
Categories: Philip Pullman
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