London Literature
Festival 2011
This years Festival will run from 30th June – 14th July at The Southbank Centre
This years Festival will feature the folowing Authors;
Thursday 7th July 2011 @ 7.45pm , £8.00
African Writers Evening
To celebrate the South Bank’s history as a brewery site, African Writers’ Evening explores the role of the bar as a key location in fiction. The evening features readings and conversation with Ben Okri, whose Madame Koto’s Bar plays a pivotal role in the Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road, and Sarah Ladipo Manyika, author of the novel In Dependence. Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria and is the author of eight novels as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France and England. She published her first novel, In Dependence, in 2008 and is also the author of essays and short stories.
8th July 2011 @ 7.45pm £10.00
Carlos Moore joins Southbank Centre Artist in Residence Lemn Sissay for a night of readings and recollections about his amazing life, including previously unseen footage of Fela Kuti in performance. Banished from his native Cuba for his opposition to Castro’s racial policies, Carlos Moore has since lived in many lands during his 34-year exile. A distinguished academic, journalist and writer, he met Fela Kuti in Nigeria and wrote his biography in This Bitch of a Life in 1982. His most recent book is Pichón: Race and Revolution in Castro’s Cuba from 2008.
Saturday 9th July @ 7.45pm £10
Colin Grant & Linton Kwesi Johnson: Trench Town Rock
Linton Kwesi Johnson discuss one of the biggest and most influential groups of the 20th century, The Wailers. Colin Grant’s book I & I – The Natural Mystics is the remarkable story of the rise and history of The Wailers, from ghetto life to worldwide acclaim, which digs deeper into the politics and ideologies that provoked their spirit. He argues that in their different characters each member of the trio offered a role model, and his exploration concludes with a search for the last surviving Wailer. The event includes rare film footage and music.
Monday 11th July 2011 @7.45pm £8.00
Helen Oyeyemi takes us in a new direction with a reading from her latest novel Mr Fox, a mischievous story of love, lies and inspiration. Mr Fox is a magical book, as witty and charming as it is profound in its truths about how we learn to be with one another. Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to London when she was four. She is also the author of White is for Witching, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award.
The event is chaired by critic Suzi Feay.
Thursday 14th July @8pm £13.00
Rhythm & Poetry
A no-clutter, no-fuss, straight-up nostalgic evening of hip-hop inspired poems and favourite hip-hop songs, featuring Charlie Dark, Inua Ellams, PolarBear, Roger Robinson, Jacob Sam La-Rose, Kate Tempest, Warsan Shire, Poetic Pilgrimage and Zena Edwards.
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