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Queen Elizabeth Hall

Belvedere Road, London, SE1 9XX
United Kingdom

+44 (0)871 663 2501; customersouthbankcentre.co.uk

Web site: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Amenities: wifi, food/drink

Description: Part of the South Bank Centre, London. Mainly a concert hall, it sometimes hosts literary events.

Added by: Grammath.  Contacted: Not contacted.  Venue ID: 25111

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Robert Fisk, Ronan Bennett and Christina Lamb (April 7 at 7:00pm)
robert fisk discusses the Iraq war.; ronan bennett.; christina lamb.
Robert Fisk, one of the world's most distinguished foreign correspondents, discusses the conflict in Iraq with Christina Lamb and chair Ronan Bennett. Robert Fisk has reported on the Middle East for 25 years, and has won a devoted readership for his insightful and outspoken dispatches from the frontline, ... (more)collected in his new book The Age of the Warrior. Christina Lamb has been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year four times, and has reported on wars from Basra to Afghanistan. Novelist Ronan Bennett has recently written short films for the BBC marking the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion and the event includes a screening of one of his films. The first event in a new series Writing from the Frontline, which explores contemporary reportage and non-fiction.
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Enchanted Endings: Salman Rushdie in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi (April 13 at 7:30pm)
Salman Rushdie discusses The Enchantress of Florence.
Author of numerous prize-winning works and one of world literature's leading voices, Rushdie discusses his latest novel The Enchantress of Florence, strong female protagonists, and the role of the imagination in fiction with Lisa Appignanesi, President of English PEN, and writer of several works of fiction ... (more)and non-fiction, most recently Mad, Bad and Sad. This is the closing event of International PEN's Free the Word festival. Part of Free the Word.
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Isabel Allende (April 22 at 7:30pm)
Isabel Allende discusses The Sum of our Days.
Isabel Allende’s extraordinary life has been the basis for much of her celebrated writing. She returns to Southbank Centre to read from and discuss her new memoir The Sum of Our Days. Beginning with the death of her daughter in 1992, the book recounts her years in California, and is a self-portrait ... (more)of a daughter, wife and mother drawn from her own journals. The work also illuminates in fascinating ways her life as one of the world’s most renowned writers.
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Sebald Lecture (September 29 at 8:00pm)
Louis de Bernières.
Louis de Bernières gives the 2008 Sebald Lecture on literary translation. Tickets £10.
Interested: laurapickle Added by MonkeyRobo.
The 2008 TS Eliot Prize Readings (January 11 at 7:30pm)
Moniza Alvi.; Peter Bennet.; Ciaran Carson.; Robert Crawford.; Maura Dooley.; Mark Doty.; Jen Hadfield.; Mick Imlah.; Glyn Maxwell.; Stephen Romer.
Readings from the poets shortlisted for the 2008 TS Eliot Prize. Tickets £13.45.
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Kate Grenville (February 3 at 7:45pm)
Kate Grenville discusses The Lieutenant.
Tickets £11.45.
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kazuo ishiguro (May 13 at 7:30pm)
kazuo ishiguro reads from Nocturnes.
Booker Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his latest work, Nocturnes, a wonderful story cycle exploring themes of love, music and the passing of time. Written with extraordinary delicacy and wit, the stories move from the piazzas of Italy, to the Malvern Hills, via London and Hollywood. Underlying ... (more)each story, however, is a haunting theme: the struggle to keep a sense of life’s romance as time passes.
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