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London Literature Festival 2012
Welcome to Southbank Centre’s sixth annual London Literature Festival featuring headline names Siri Hustvedt, John Pilger, Clive Stafford Smith, Andy Kershaw, Noo Saro-Wiwa, Will Self, Stella Duffy and Mark Haddon, as well as children’s authors Michael Morpurgo and Andy Stanton.
We present the first ever UK performance of Don DeLillo’s The Word For Snow, and bring you Capital Stories, a playful and provocative look at the city that the world calls home. Experience our city afresh through graphic short stories, debate, oral history and poetry.
The world comes to London this summer with a global array of writers, artists and activists from across Africa and the Arab region and dispatches from Mumbai, China and the Caribbean. We unpick the complexities of the Arab Revolutions in day of discussion, performance and exchange.
In an unforgettable weekend of spoken word performance, don’t miss Shake the Dust, the biggest UK youth poetry slam featuring top spoken word artists Saul Williams and Kate Tempest and nine teams from across the country competing in the final. Prepare to be blown away by the energy, originality, honesty and virtuosity of this new generation of writers and performers.
Join us for the UK’s most dynamic literature festival.
Events in this series
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Members' Bar - level 6
London Literature Festival/Poetry Parnassus Insight talk
Monday 11 June 2012
Discover our London Literature Festival and Poetry Parnassus with programmers Martin Colthorpe and Anna Selby.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Writers as you've never seen them before, reading to the world class music of Senegal's prince of sound Baaba Maal.
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Level 5 Function Room
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Author-journalists José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola) and Dinaw Mengestu (Ethiopia) explore -- in readings and discussion -- the limitations of borders in the imaginative landscape of the African write
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Purcell Room
Tuesday 3 July 2012
A copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare smuggled into a prison is the starting point for this evening of performance and discussion.
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Poetry Library
Tuesday 3 July 2012
This year the Poetry Library celebrates its collection now spanning over 100 years of poetry from 1912 to the present day.
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Purcell Room
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Noo Saro-Wiwa, author of Transwonderland, and Chika Unigwe, whose latest novel Night Dancer is published this summer, explore the complexities of Nigeria, a country of economic dynamism, corruption
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Level 5 Function Room
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Nuruddin Farah is one of the key voices about contemporary Somalia. In his new novel, Crossbones, Jeebleh returns to Mogadishu with his journalist son-in-law Malik.
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The Front Room at QEH
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Exploring the subject of genre in African writing, visual art and film, this event features discussion alongside screenings from short films featured in the exhibition Superpower: Africa in Science
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Poetry Library
In the Company of Ghosts: the poetics of the motorway
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Interest in the history, influence and poetics of the motorway is growing.
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Level 3 Function Room
Wednesday 4 July 2012
One of the most popular novels of the last decade, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon is the beguiling story of Christopher Boone, who investigates the death of his
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Level 5 Function Room
Thursday 5 July 2012
F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a classic of 20th-century literature, and its themes of glamour, consumption and questionable morality are resonant in our own time.
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Level 5 Function Room
Thursday 5 July 2012
Jeet Thayil's novel Narcopolis is shrouded in the ghostly atmosphere of Old Bombay, with a cast of pimps, poets, gangsters and eunuchs who move through the city's sprawling underworld, creating a n
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Shake the Dust with Saul Williams featuring Kate Tempest
Thursday 5 July 2012
Saul Williams is one of the most influential voices on the international spoken word scene.
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Purcell Room
Thursday 5 July 2012
The visionary architect Cedric Price once imagined a 'Fun Palace' occupying the site now taken over by the 2012 Olympic park.
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The Front Room at QEH
Thursday 5 July 2012
To kick off this fantastic weekend of spoken word, join us for a screening of We Are Poets, a film which follows six young poets over the course of one very special year, as they are chosen to repr
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Thursday 5 July 2012 - Thursday 5 July 2012
What happens when a forgotten diary is found inside a book bought on eBay? How do you know what is truth or fantasy? Do you try and find out?
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Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative Writing School
Thursday 5 July 2012 - Sunday 8 July 2012
Southbank Centre's Creative Writing School runs monthly, sold-out classes in the craft of writing - intensive, two-hour practical sessions.
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Purcell Room
Friday 6 July 2012
Poet, playwright and Southbank Centre Associate Artist, Lemn Sissay, the first poet commissioned to write for the 2012 Olympics, welcomes some of the UK's top spoken word artists.
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Spirit Level
Friday 6 July 2012
Celebrated poet and novelist Sjón discusses 'The Whispering Muse', a novel that combines recent history with Nordic myth in the life of Valdimar Haraldsson.
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The Front Room at QEH
Friday 6 July 2012
Continuing the spoken word celebrations, Southbank Centre's Young Producers bring together some of the most exciting up-and-coming voices on the UK spoken word scene along with a set from Dizraeli
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