Line-ups, updates and news for The Hay Festival 2011.
When: 27th May - 5th June 2011
Where: Hay-on-Wye
How much: each event individually priced
The Hay Festival is a ten-day festival of literature, art and music held every year during May and June in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. Founded in 1988 by Norman and Peter Florence, the Hay Festival sees some of the world's finest authors, writers and assorted media types taking part in a host of different events. Since 2002, the festival has been sponsored by The Guardian and in recent years has expanded to include music, film and a children's festival called Hay Fever.
2010 saw a host of famous names descending on the Welsh market town: literary heavyweights like Zadie Smith, Martin Amis, David Mitchell and Kazui Ishiguro, media personalities like Stephen Fry, Charlie Higson, John Simpson, Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Marr, as well as assorted others like Roddy Doyle, Bill Bryson, Alain de Botton and Quentin Blake. Comedy featured strongly with the likes of Shappi Khorsandi, Tim Minchin, Ruby Wax, Jo Brand, Rob Brydon and Marcus Brigstocke all making appearances, whilst music came from, among others, Beth Orton, Laura Marling and The Whip.
Line Up So Far:
Simon Russell Beale
Jo Brand
Sarah Brown
Eoin Colfer
Nobel Peace Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei
Nobel Literature Laureate Jean-Marie le Clezio
President Eric Hobsbawm
The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Bjorn Lomborg
Henning Mankell
Cerys Matthews
David Miliband
Nobel Medicine Laureate Paul Nurse
Rowan Williams
John Waters
Read Tom's review of Hay Festival 2010.
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