Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival 2012

The next Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival will be 21-23 September 2012

Box Office opens July 30, 2012

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Some of the writers who appeared at the 2011 Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival included …

• Hilary Mantel • Carol Ann Duffy • Gillian Clarke • Mavis Cheek
• AL Kennedy • Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall • Josceline Dimbleby
• Michael Morpurgo • Sir Roy Strong • Robin Hanbury-Tennison

Visit the 2011 Festival Photo Gallery here…

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival 2011

 

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Part of the Literary Festival’s ethos is to entertain the whole community, and to this end, the programme includes pre-school storybook reading, a poetry workshop, poetry recitals involving local schools, book sales, an art talk about a celebrated book illustrator, and even a walking tour with a literary flavour around Budleigh Salterton.

We have posted (below) a short video of highlights from our 2011 Festival.
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Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival is supported by:

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• Everys Solicitors • Palmers Whitton and Laing • The Tolkien Trust •
• Norman Family Charitable Trust • Creative Engine Web & Marketing •
• The Farm Marketing Communications • Devon County Council •
• Arts & Culture at the University of Exeter • Simcoe House •
• Blackwell Publishers • Budleigh Salterton Library •
• Budleigh Salterton Tourist Information Centre •
• Budleigh Salterton Town Council •
• Councillor Christine Channon • Michael Jackaman • P.J. White •

…and other Literary Festival Friends and supporters who have kindly sponsored or contributed to the Festival.

Other large UK Literary Festivals & Literature Festivals in South West England include:
The Telegraph Ways With Words Literary Festival at Dartington Hall
The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival
Port Eliot Festival
Bath Literary Festival

We also recommend Wordquest Devon – an opportunity for people to immerse themselves in Devon’s literature while exploring the county’s dramatic landscapes.

Looking forward to welcoming you to the 2012 Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival.

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Kathy Lette

Kathy Lette, that chatterbox of a best-selling author, will be joining our 2012 Literary Festival in Budleigh Salterton.

Kathy Lette, Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival Devon UK

In 2010, Kathy Lette appeared at our festival and was by universal consent judged to be a knock-out. It was not a difficult decision to invite her back but we are fortunate that she accepted our invitation.

For those who have not experienced her event, she produces a rapid fire of neat insights punctuated by outrageous puns and non-literary references. If you haven’t heard her before, book early! She radically upsets one’s expectations of authors’ presentations.

All about Kathy Lette: www.kathylette.com

Bold, brash and very clever, Kathy Lette comes to Budleigh Salterton to talk about her latest novel The Boy Who Fell To Earth (2012), an energetic tale of the trials and tribulations of a single mother and her son Merlin, who has Aspergers. Join Lette in conversation with Professor Helen Taylor, talking about her latest book, her writing life and loves, and the very real challenges remaining for women in a 21st century world, not to mention pregnancy and mothering survival tips, hot flushes, getting down and dirty with George Clooney and Princes William and Harry, and hiding Julian Assange in the attic.

Kathy Lette is Australian and first achieved success with a novel, Puberty Blues, co-authored with her friend Gabrielle Carey.  When she grew up a little, she became a newspaper columnist and sitcom writer but returned to the novel form with Girl’s Night Out in 1988 and has since written many novels including ‘How to Kill your Husband (and other handy household hints)’.

Box Office opens July 30, 2012

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel will be joining our 2012 Literary Festival in Budleigh Salterton We are especially honoured to have Hilary Mantel CBE, our President, to speak at this year’s Festival. She has been deluged with invitations to speak at other literary festivals and book tours around the world but has remained loyally attached to her new [...]

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Lemn Sissay

Poet and playwright, Lemn Sissay MBE will be joining our 2012 Literary Festival in Budleigh Salterton. Lemn Sissay MBE is the first of five poets commissioned for the Olympic Park (the other poets include Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate who came to our Festival last year). For the Olympic site, Lemn has written a [...]

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Meredith Hooper

Antarctic expert and winner of numerous literary prizes as well as the US Congress Antarctic Service Medal… Meredith Hooper will be joining our 2012 Literary Festival in Budleigh Salterton. Meredith Hooper is a lecturer, historian, Antarctic expert and full-time writer of non-fiction and fiction for children and adults.  Her non-fiction books include The Ferocious Summer: [...]

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Peter Hennessy

English historian and academic, Peter Hennessy will be joining our 2012 Literary Festival in Budleigh Salterton. Peter Hennessy – Professor the Lord Peter Hennessy of Nympsfield – has watched several generations of ministers grope their way around Whitehall. In the 1970s he was a lobby reporter for the Financial Times, and The Times’s Whitehall correspondent; [...]

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Ginette Vincendeau

Film academic Ginette Vincendau will be joining our 2012 Literary Festival in Budleigh Salterton. Brigitte Bardot took the world by storm with ‘And God Created Woman’ in 1956.  She projected a truly ground-breaking image of hedonism and sexual freedom. Despite her brief film career, her glorious youthful image continues to sell books, handbags and clothes. [...]

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Wendy Cope

There can be few readers of contemporary literature who have not been moved or amused by Wendy Cope’s work.  Her poems have become absorbed into the national consciousness – think of the phrase, “Bloody men are like…” Indeed last year at the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, Carol Ann Duffy started her wonderful presentation (with Gillian [...]

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