Some posts ago, as part of the intermittent series on chairing events at literary festivals, you were promised an insight into what happens when one of the authors can’t attend their own event. Please forgive the delay, but here it now is.
Having been asked to stand in for Rachel Holmes, the Head of Literature and [...]
Filed under: London Literature Festival 2009 | Tagged: Brian Chikwava, Harare North, Petina Gappah, Rachel Holmes, Southbank Centre | Leave a Comment »
Sadly the Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah didn’t get a visa to come to the UK so Brixton-based Brian Chikwava had to go it alone yesterday in conversation with Paul Blezard. Fortunately he turned out to be riveting company for a packed event. Brian, winner of the Caine prize for new African writing, proved to have an [...]
Filed under: Ancient Mariner, London Literature Festival 2009 | Tagged: Brian Chikwava, Gavin Bryars, Gavin Friday, Shakespeare, Zimbabwe | Leave a Comment »
Having read up for the event on Saturday with Alexander Masters’ “Stuart – A life backwards” and Clare Mulley’s ‘The Woman who saved the Children” I now have a pretty clear picture of the path the event might take. There are the obvious themes of identity, biography and the approach that each took to their [...]
Filed under: London Literature Festival 2009 | Tagged: Brian Chikwava, Petina Gappah, Rachel Holmes | 2 Comments »
