Literature
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Purcell Room
Anna Bikont, Jonathan Miller w
Friday 8 May 2009
Friday 8 May 2009
Advanced Booking | African Dance | Eastern Europe | Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature April – June 09
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'All the inhabitants of this planet are Others meeting Others' (Ryszard Kapuscinski).
Purcell Room
A S Byatt
Monday 11 May 2009
Monday 11 May 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature April – June 09
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AS Byatt returns to Southbank Centre to discuss her new novel The Children’s Book, a gripping, panoramic novel set in the late Victorian and Edwardian world.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Kazuo Ishiguro
Wednesday 13 May 2009
Wednesday 13 May 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature April – June 09
13115
Booker Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his latest work, Nocturnes, a wonderful story cycle exploring themes of love, music and the passing of time.
Blue Room, Spirit Level
Rawi Hage
Tuesday 26 May 2009
Tuesday 26 May 2009
Advanced Booking | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Literature April – June 09
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Winner of the International IMPAC award, Rawi Hage reads from his novel Cockroach.
Purcell Room
Anne Michaels - 8pm
Monday 1 June 2009
Monday 1 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature April – June 09 | Orange Prize for Fiction
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Anne Michaels’ The Winter Vault is the long-awaited follow up to Fugitive Pieces, her outstanding debut which won the Orange Prize in 1997.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Orange Prize Readings
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Literature April – June 09 | Orange Prize for Fiction
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Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative Writ
Thursday 2 July 2009
Thursday 2 July 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Creative Writing Summer School
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Sharpen your writing skills at our Creative Writing Summer School with Greg Mosse and guest writers including Aamer Hussein, Sue Eckstein, Craig Taylor and Josa Young.
Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative Writ
Friday 3 July 2009
Friday 3 July 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Workshops | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Creative Writing Summer School
13443
Sharpen your writing skills at our Creative Writing Summer School with Greg Mosse and guest writers including Aamer Hussein, Sue Eckstein, Craig Taylor and Josa Young.
Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative Writ
Saturday 4 July 2009
Saturday 4 July 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Creative Writing Summer School
13445
Sharpen your writing skills at our Creative Writing Summer School with Greg Mosse and guest writers including Aamer Hussein, Sue Eckstein, Craig Taylor and Josa Young.
Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative Writ
Sunday 5 July 2009
Sunday 5 July 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Workshops | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Creative Writing Summer School
13447
Sharpen your writing skills at our Creative Writing Summer School with Greg Mosse and guest writers including Aamer Hussein, Sue Eckstein, Craig Taylor and Josa Young.
Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative
Thursday 9 July 2009
Thursday 9 July 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Workshops | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Creative Writing Summer School
13448
Sharpen your writing skills at our Creative Writing Summer School with Greg Mosse and guest writers including Aamer Hussein, Sue Eckstein, Craig Taylor and Josa Young.
Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative
Friday 10 July 2009
Friday 10 July 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Workshops | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Creative Writing Summer School
13446
Sharpen your writing skills at our Creative Writing Summer School with Greg Mosse and guest writers including Aamer Hussein, Sue Eckstein, Craig Taylor and Josa Young.
Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative Writ
Saturday 11 July 2009
Saturday 11 July 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Workshops | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Creative Writing Summer School
13444
Sharpen your writing skills at our Creative Writing Summer School with Greg Mosse and guest writers including Aamer Hussein, Sue Eckstein, Craig Taylor and Josa Young.
Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative
Sunday 12 July 2009
Sunday 12 July 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Workshops | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Creative Writing Summer School
13442
Sharpen your writing skills at our Creative Writing Summer School with Greg Mosse and guest writers including Aamer Hussein, Sue Eckstein, Craig Taylor and Josa Young.
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Purcell Room
Javier Marias
Tuesday 10 November 2009
Tuesday 10 November 2009
Fiction | Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word
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One of Europe's most celebrated novelists, Javier Marias discusses the final volume of his trilogy, 'Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow and Farewell'.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
David Eagleman and Philip Pullman - Tall Tales from the Afterlife
Thursday 12 November 2009
Thursday 12 November 2009
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David Eagleman's 'Sum' is a dazzling and hugely acclaimed debut, in which the reader is guided through 40 wildly imagined versions of the afterlife.
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Level 5 Function Room
Eva Hoffman, Janice Galloway and Susan Tomes
Monday 7 December 2009
Monday 7 December 2009
Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Piano | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Literature & Spoken Word
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As part of her series on writing and music, Eva Hoffman discusses her latest novel Illuminations, which follows a woman pianist on a concert tour, and looks at the challenges of evoking music in fiction.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Patience Agbabi, Carol Ann Duffy, John Hegley, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Michael Rosen
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Wednesday 9 December 2009
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Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy joins Patience Agbabi, John Hegley, Jackie Kay, Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Michael Rosen to celebrate the life and poems of the late, great Adrian Mitchell.
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Level 3 Function Room
Book Club: Snow
Thursday 7 January 2010
Thursday 7 January 2010
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Our first Book Club choice for the spring season is Orhan Pamuk's Snow, published shortly before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature and a great critical and commercial success.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Orhan Pamuk
Monday 11 January 2010
Monday 11 January 2010
Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Turkey | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Literature & Spoken Word
13739
Advanced Booking
Orhan Pamuk, one of Europe’s most prominent writers, joins us to launch The Museum of Innocence, his first novel for six years.
