Lets celebrate a 60th anniversary together
After another record-breaking Literature Festival in 2008, with over 450 authors participating in more than 350 events, attracting an audience of 100,000, we are now looking forward to celebrate The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival’s 60th anniversary with you!
The world’s oldest Literature Festival was founded in 1949 and witnessed many political and cultural changes. We would like to take the opportunity in 2009 not only to talk about the past, but also to look at the future ahead of us. Literature, history, politics, medicine, what got people talking, what events changed the course of history and people’s lives in the past six decades? And what does the future hold?
Join us for another celebration of great literature and poetry, spell-binding storytelling, fascinating talks and discussions and much more, from 9 to 18 October 2009!
… with ten Guest Directors
Join our Big Read — The Great Gatsby
The Literature Festival is joining forces once again with Penguin and Gloucestershire Libraries for our 2009 Big Read — The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald!
A tale of love and hate, glamour and decay, this great novel will sweep you away to 1920s America, a world of decadent parties and wild jazz music.
