All events take place in a marquee in the Square René Viviani, directly next to Shakespeare & Company (37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris).
The programme and participants are subject to change. Please check this website for updates.
All the events are free. First come, first served! Unless otherwise indicated, all events are in English, translated or summarised in French.
See the special events that are also taking place during the festival.
Changes to the programme
Please note Friday 14h-15h journalist Sue Cullinan will be replacing Mark Gevisser interviewing Njabulo Ndebele.
Also note Saturday 19 June 17h-18h Jane Birkin is now no longer in France so unable to do the reading as part of Emma Larkin's event on Burma.
* = Event in English only
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11.00-11.50 Jack Hirschman NO IT U LOVER Introduced by Heather Hartley |
11.00-11.30 Denis Hirson Poetry accompanied by guitarist Mike Dickman |
11.00-11.50 Breyten Breytenbach In conversation with Janine di Giovanni |
11.40-12.30 Fatima Bhutto Politics and Violence in Pakistan In conversation with Janine di Giovanni |
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12.00-12.50 Ian Jack What it Was Like: The Radical Changes in British Life and the Practice of Journalism - What Happens Next? In conversation with Janine di Giovanni |
12.00-13.00 Nam Le & Petina Gappah The World in Short In conversation with Erica Wagner |
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12.45-13.35 Martin Amis The Narrative of Controversy: Martin Amis and Fiction in the Post 9.11 World In conversation with Will Self |
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13.00-13.50 English PEN Writers in Prison Chip Martin & Carole Seymour-Jones in conversation |
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13.15-14.15 Mathias Énard & Raja Shehadeh Writing, Violence and Conflict In conversation with Natalie Levisalles (in French, translated into English) |
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14.00-15.00 Njabulo Ndebele & Mark Gevisser Biography as Political Storytelling in South Africa A public conversation Introduced by Janine di Giovanni |
14.00-15.10 Panel Table ronde What the World Cup Means for Africa: Four Writers Kick the Ball Around Panel chaired by Mark Gevisser, with Breyten Breytenbach, Petina Gappah & Njabulo Ndebele |
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14.30-15.20 Hanif Kureishi Writing the Suburbs, Writing the City In conversation with Steven Gale |
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15.10-16.00 Raja Shehadeh Beyond Borders: Writing out of the Palestinian Enclave In conversation with Steven Gale |
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15.20-15.50 TJ Dema Spoken Word Introduced by Heather Hartley |
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15.30-16.00 Zena Edwards Truth be Told Performance poetry with bass by Acelino de Paula. Introduced by Heather Hartley |
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16.00-16.50 Philip Pullman Storytelling and Authority In conversation with Erica Wagner |
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16.10-17.20 Panel Table ronde Do Books Change Things? Are Things Changing Books? Panel chaired by Ian Jack, with Olivier Postel-Vinay, Philip Pullman & André Schiffrin |
16.10-17.00 Jeanette Winterson Please Don’t Leave Me - The World, The Story, The Self Introduced by Erica Wagner |
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17.00-18.00 Emma Larkin How to Write a Book in a Military Dictatorship In conversation with Steven Gale With a reading by Jane Birkin |
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17.10-18.00 Yusef Komunyakaa Poetry Introduced by Steven Gale |
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17.30-18.00 Natalie Clein Solo Cello in Many Voices |
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18.10-19.00 Will Self Sex, Death and Laughter in the Dark In conversation with Janine di Giovanni Reading from Dorian |
18.10-19.00 David Hare Forty Years as a Playwright In conversation with Janine di Giovanni |
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18.15-19.30 Porchlight Storytelling Strange Bedfellows - Stories of Alliance Hosted by Beth Lisick & Arline Klatte. Participants: Robert Mailer Anderson, Agneta Falk, Gentry Lane, Alfonso Montuori |
