Wednesday 12 January 2011

Hay Festival

Telegraph Media Group is the new sponsor of the Hay Festival, Britain’s foremost festival of literature and arts

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Afro Celt Sound System to open Hay

Joyous band who blend African and Irish music will launch 2011 Hay Festival

Beauty and the books in Cartagena

Dates of next Telegraph Hay Festival:
Thursday 26th May through to Sunday 5th June 2011

Tickets:
Hay Festival Box Office, The Drill Hall, 25 Lion Street,
Hay-on-Wye HR3 5AD
Telephone: 01497 822 629
www.hayfestival.com

Location:
In a tented village in Hay-on-Wye, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park, just off the A438.

Hay Festival latest

100 reasons to be excited about culture in 2011

From a Royal Wedding in 3D, to a blockbuster Leonardo show: what to look forward to this year.

03 Jan 2011

Hay Festival Quiz

As we launch our sponsorship of the Hay Festival, one of the world’s leading celebrations of literature and the arts, we present a quiz, compiled by the Telegraph’s Gavin Fuller, a former Mastermind winner. Each answer features someone who has appeared at the festival.

01 Jan 2011

Hay Festival announces guests

Howard Jacobson, the Booker Prize winner

Simon Russell Beale and Howard Jacobson to grace next year’s event at Hay-on-Wye.

22 Dec 2010

What book should you recommend to the nation?

The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino, and The Luzhin Defence by Vladimir Nabokov

News of World Book Night raised an important but crippling question at the Hay Festival, says Gaby Wood.

06 Dec 2010

Winter and books are the perfect mix

Hay-on-Wye, home to the Hay Festival Winter Weekend, is on the edge of the beautiful Brecon Beacons National Park

Antony Woodward looks forward to snuggling up to Hay's Winter Weekend in the Brecon Beacons.

25 Nov 2010

Winter Weekend highlights

Hay Festival has a host of pre-Christmas treats in store with its Winter Weekend

25 Nov 2010

Geoffrey Lean on Hay's green values

Geoffrey Lean analyses the Hay Festival's environmental commitments

25 Nov 2010

Hay Festival Cartagena: Let Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez be your guide

Hay Festival Cartagena has a new audio guide for the first time

25 Nov 2010

Hay Festival Kerala: Bob Geldof does like Sundays

Hay Festival's worldwide programme in 2010 ended on a high note in Kerala

25 Nov 2010

Dara O'Briain salutes the Hay Festival

Comedian Dara O Briain tells The Telegraph why he loves performing and listening at The Hay Festival.

25 Nov 2010

Hay Festival: Everything under the Keralan sun

Politics, Pulp Fiction dancing and 'some of the worst pop songs in history' jostled for space with poets and other writers at The Week Hay Festival Kerala, reports Lisa Dwan

22 Nov 2010

Hay festivals: A guide to international events

From Mexico to the Maldives - Hay festivals around the world

19 Nov 2010

Hay Kerala - Sameer Rahim's Diary, Part Two

How Sebastian Faulks wants to match Charles Dickens with John Updike

17 Nov 2010

Hay Kerala - Sameer Rahim's Diary, Part One

A beautiful setting, warm rain and vibrant conversation in a festival of ideas

16 Nov 2010

The fun of watching Bob Geldof and Sting

Sting and Bob Geldof sent the crowd wild at the Hay Festival in Kerala

15 Nov 2010

Sting: Hay with Bob Geldof was 'highpoint'

Sting makes a surprise appearance with Bob Geldof at the Kerala Hay Festival

15 Nov 2010

Geldof and Sting in Hay festival finale

There was a spectacular end to the inaugural Hay Festival held in Trivandrum, Kerala in India last night.

14 Nov 2010

Hay Festival: What you need to know

Hay Festival information

10 Nov 2010

Hay Festival: The aims of Greenprint

The Hay Festival takes its environmental responsibilities seriously as it finds ways to cope with the influx of 200,000 festival goers to a small town in Wales

10 Nov 2010