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Monica Ali, Ben Okri and William Boyd are among the first speakers revealed to be revealed for this year’s Cliveden Literary Festival.
Run by a committee of writers and historians, including Andrew Roberts, Natalie Livingstone, Catherine Ostler and Simon Sebag Montefiore, the festival draws on Cliveden House in Berkshire’s history as a literary salon, historically attended by writers such as George Bernard Shaw and Alexander Pope.
The festival programme features expert panels on Putin’s Russia, chaired by Sebag Montefiore, and Zelensky’s Ukraine with Serhii Plokhy and Anne Applebaum, while Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful will discuss his rise to the top of the fashion world, alongside several novelists talking about their craft.
Brian Cox, Peter Frankopan, Robert Harris, William Dalrymple, Clarissa Ward, Sebastian Barry and Abi Morgan have also been announced, joined by Plokhy, Olesya Khromeychuk, Louise Perry, Julia Samuel and politicians including Michael Gove and Nadhim Zahawi. The full list of names can be viewed on the Cliveden website.
“We’re delighted to announce some of the speakers who will be joining us at the Cliveden Literary Festival this October," said Natalie Livingstone, chair of the festival. "As ever, this year’s festival will see our fascinating line-up of speakers discuss, and at times fiercely debate, the most pressing issues of our era.”
Priority bookers can purchase festival tickets on the Cliveden Literary Festival website now, with general booking opening at 10 a.m. on 25th July.