Literary festivals mark 40th anniversary

Ion Trewin, Administrator for the Man Booker Prizes

Oxford and Charleston join 40th anniversary celebrations

14 March 2008

Two major literary festivals in the UK have already announced celebratory events to mark the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize - now Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Oxford Literary Festival - 1 April 2008

To celebrate the anniversary, Ion Trewin, Administrator of the Man Booker Prize, will chair a panel considering the impact of the Booker Prize and discussing the best books of the last 40 years. Amongst others, the panel will include critic, biographer and former Man Booker Prize judge, Ruth Scurr, and Peter Kemp, Fiction Editor of The Sunday Times.

This event will take place on 1 April 2008. Please visit the Oxford Literary Festival website for more information

Charleston Festival - 16 May 2008

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prestigious Man Booker Prize, Victoria Glendinning, former Booker judge and biographer of Leonard Woolf, will chair a book club where members of a literary panel champion their own favourite Booker novel, as well as those that did not make it. The panel will include writer, presenter, comedian and judge of this year’s Prize, Hardeep Singh Kohli; Kate Mosse, co-founder of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, hugely successful author of Labyrinth (Richard and Judy Book of the Year), Sepulchre, and presenter of Radio 4’s A Good Read.

More information about the 40th anniversary event is available at the Charleston Literary Festival website

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