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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · Aug 12

Dallas, it’s time!

Hay Festival Forum Dallas is back 17–19 October in the Bishop Arts District with an inspiring programme of writers, thinkers and world-changers.

Join us! www.hayfestival.org/dallas

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 1d

We’re marking #BannedBooksWeekUK with Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid’s Tale as our free film of the week on Hay Festival Anytime.

Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime/

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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 2d

Check out @hayfestival.bsky.social Anytime for a series of #BannedBooksWeekUK conversations! With leading authors and their banned books including Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak, Toni Morrison, Marjane Satrapi and more: www.hayfestival.com/anytime/

Hay Festival Anytime - audio and video recordings of Hay Festival events worldwide - Hay Festival Anytime Audio & Video

Hay Festival - Discover a world of different

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 2d

Dame Jilly Cooper, 1937–2025.

Thank you for the stories, always.

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 3d

Catch up: www.hayfestival.com/p-24402-colm...

Colm Tóibín & Bohdan Kolomiychuk - Hay Festival

Colm Tóibín & Bohdan Kolomiychuk

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 3d

Colm Tóibín’s message to Ukraine, in conversation with Bohdan Kolomiychuk at Lviv BookForum 2025.

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 3d

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Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with Ostap Slyvynskyy - Hay Festival

Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with Ostap Slyvynskyy

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 3d

Bernardine Evaristo on a writer’s freedom and the sensitivities of storytelling, in conversation with Ostap Slyvynsky at Lviv BookForum 2025 this weekend.

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 3d

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Stephen Fry & Yurko Prokhasko with Kateryna Mikhalitsyna - Hay Festival

Stephen Fry & Yurko Prokhasko with Kateryna Mikhalitsyna

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Fry on where we might find hope in dark times, live at Lviv BookForum 2025 this weekend.

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 3d

Live now!

Colm Tóibín & Bohdan Kolomiychuk - Hay Festival

Colm Tóibín & Bohdan Kolomiychuk

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 3d

Live now!

Stephen Fry & Yurko Prokhasko with Kateryna Mikhalitsyna - Hay Festival

Stephen Fry & Yurko Prokhasko with Kateryna Mikhalitsyna

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 3d

Live now!

Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with Ostap Slyvynskyy - Hay Festival

Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with Ostap Slyvynskyy

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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 3d

#BannedBooksWeekUK begins today! From 5-11 Oct, join us in celebrating the freedom to read.

📖 Read a banned book
🎤 Host /attend an event
📚 Organise a book swap
📱Share on socials #BannedBooksWeekUK

www.indexoncensorship.org/bannedbooksw...

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 3d

writers 🤝 readers

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Sofiia Andrukhovych & Olga Tokarczuk with Marcin Gaczkowski - Hay Festival

Sofiia Andrukhovych & Olga Tokarczuk with Marcin Gaczkowski

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 4d

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 4d

Where great minds meet.

Hay Festival Brings Literary Stars to Ukraine, U.S., and Beyond

Wales-based Hay Festival is positioning itself at geopolitical flashpoints around the world, having brought top authors to this weekend's Lviv BookForum. Later this month, A-listers will visit Dallas ...

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 4d

Writer Tanja Maljartschuk on why fiction cannot replace justice, live at our first event of Lviv BookForum 2025.

Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 4d

Novelist Hisham Matar on the revealing powers of fiction, live at our first event of Lviv BookForum 2025.

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 4d

Novelist Elif Shafak on preserving collective memory, live at our first event of Lviv BookForum 2025.

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 5d

“These are ten important books that will help you understand Ukraine – and why this country stands and will stand.”

Ten Titles in Translation That Celebrate Ukraine

For decades, Ukraine remained in the shadow of the Russian imperial discourse. Foreign readers had access to only a limited number of translations of Ukrainian literature. Today, fortunately the nu…

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 6d

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Fighting forgottenness – stories of hope and resilience - Hay Festival

Fighting forgottenness – stories of hope and resilience

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Book Aid International @bookaidint.bsky.social · 6d

Starting today, watch Ukraine’s biggest book festival free online as @hayfestival.bsky.social stream Lviv Book Forum.

Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · Aug 29

It’s back.

Take part in Ukraine’s biggest book festival free online this October as we stream Lviv BookForum to the world.

Join us! www.hayfestival.org/lviv-bookforum

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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 7d

Our Book Club pick for October is here and it’s a Halloween special – Dark Matter by Michelle Paver is a terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north.

Join us! www.hayfestival.com/p-24395-hay-...

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