Literature
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Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative School
Tuesday 18 May 2010
Tuesday 18 May 2010
Literature | Workshops | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks & Debate | Creative Writing School
15157
A really good editor understands what an author is trying to achieve and helps them toward that goal.
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Purcell Room
A Night Out With Fran Landesman
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Wednesday 26 May 2010
15173
The poetry and lyrics of Fran Landesman are some of the most poignant and affecting of our time, with legends including Barbara Streisand and Bette Midler having performed her work.
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Level 5 Function Room
Chang Rae-Lee
Thursday 27 May 2010
Thursday 27 May 2010
15174
Chang-Rae Lee reads for the first time at Southbank Centre, focusing on his latest novel The Surrendered.
Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Book Club: The Life of Pi
Wednesday 2 June 2010
Wednesday 2 June 2010
Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Reading Group | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks & Debate | Southbank Centre Book Club
15218
Best Available
Our final book club of the season is on The Life of Pi, the much-admired and much-loved Booker Prize-winning novel by Yann Martel.
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Purcell Room
Orange Prize at 15
Monday 7 June 2010
Monday 7 June 2010
15221
Celebrating its 15th birthday this year, the Orange Prize is a literary prize that matters.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Orange Prize Readings
Tuesday 8 June 2010
Tuesday 8 June 2010
15222
The Orange Prize Readings are one of the highlights of our Literature and Spoken Word programme, offering exclusive readings and discussion with each of the shortlisted writers.
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Weston Pavilion
Polari
Wednesday 16 June 2010
Wednesday 16 June 2010
15223
Best Available
Tiffany Murray reads from Diamond Star Halo - her scintillating novel about growing up and hanging out at a recording studio
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Purcell Room
Sylvia Earle
Thursday 1 July 2010
Thursday 1 July 2010
Literature & Spoken Word | Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 10 | See Further
16745
Sylvia Earle, one of the world's great oceanographers, makes a rare appearance in this special event.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sylvia Earle - QEH
Thursday 1 July 2010
Thursday 1 July 2010
Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 10 | See Further
16130
Advanced Booking
Sylvia Earle, one of the world's great oceanographers, makes a rare appearance in this special event.
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Level 3 Function Room
A Writing Adventure
Saturday 3 July 2010
Saturday 3 July 2010
16405
An innovative workshop course for writers brought to you by Southbank Centre, Spread the Word and Coney - an agency of adventure and play
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St. Paul’s Pavilion
Hanan al-Shaykh
Saturday 3 July 2010
Saturday 3 July 2010
Fiction | Middle East | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 10
16122
Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh tells the remarkable story of her mother Kamila's sacrifices during the 1950s in her memoir The Locust and the Bird, which she discusses at this event.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof
Inferno 2010
Saturday 3 July 2010
Saturday 3 July 2010
Dance & Performance | Dance & Performance | Spoken Word | Urban | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Performance | Poetry | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 10
16121
Free
Southbank Centre's walkways, labyrinths and graffitied skateboard park are the entry into Dante's world in this premiere performance of Inferno, Dante Alighieri's first book from Divina Commedia.
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St. Paul’s Pavilion
Martin Rowson
Saturday 3 July 2010
Saturday 3 July 2010
Art on Site | Spoken Word | Visual Arts | Literature & Spoken Word | Visual Arts | Literature | Talks & Debate | Classic Stories | London Literature Festival 10
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Master satirist Martin Rowson has translated one of the cornerstones of English literature, Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, into graphic novel form, with all the detailed precision familiar in his Guardian cartoons.
Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Book Club: Lost World
Saturday 3 July 2010
Saturday 3 July 2010
Fiction | Reading Group | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 10 | Southbank Centre Book Club
16237
Patricia Melo's Lost World takes us on a dark journey of revenge across Brazil and Bolivia.
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Purcell Room
2010 Caine Prize Readings
Sunday 4 July 2010
Sunday 4 July 2010
Africa | Fiction | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 10
16123
The Caine Prize celebrates the best new fiction from Africa and has brought authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Brian Chikwava onto the world stage.
St. Paul’s Pavilion
Southbank Centre Book Club: A Golden Age
Sunday 4 July 2010
Sunday 4 July 2010
Reading Group | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 10 | Southbank Centre Book Club
16236
Tahmima Anam's debut novel A Golden Age focuses on the conflict between family loyalties and political zeal wrought by the Bangladeshi War of Independence in 1971.
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Royal Festival Hall
Slavoj Zizek
Monday 5 July 2010
Monday 5 July 2010
Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 10
16395
Advanced Booking
Slavoj Zizek is a cultural phenomenon, mixing popular culture with exhaustive theoretical enquiry.
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Purcell Room
John Agard, Val Bloom, Jean 'Binta' Breeze & Grace Nichols
Monday 5 July 2010
Monday 5 July 2010
Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Poetry | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 10
16124
John Agard, Val Broom, Jean 'Binta' Breeze and Grace Nichols represent a generation of Caribbean poets who shook up British poetry with a new mood, a new rhythm and a new sensibility.
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Poetry Library
Southbank Centre Book Club: Dark Matter
Monday 5 July 2010
Monday 5 July 2010
Reading Group | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Poetry | London Literature Festival 10 | Southbank Centre Book Club
16337
Best Available
Our opening London Literature Festival Book Club looks to the stars through the poetry anthology Dark Matter - Poems of Space.
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Level 5 Function Room
Kisses
Monday 5 July 2010
Monday 5 July 2010
Literature & Spoken Word | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 10
16136
Best Available
The kiss - that plosive pursing of lips, a gesture we spend our lives enjoying, pursuing, planting.
