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OCT 22 EVENT: Writer and foreign correspondent Peter Godwin talks about his new memoir about grief and family secrets

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Michael Rosen wowed the Sheldonian on the opening day in 2024

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A new programme of Georgian literature and culture was launched this year

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Social entrepreneur Josh Littlejohn spoke in Exeter College chapel

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Professor Sir Paul Nurse received the festival’s science and innovation award in recognition of his contribution to our understanding of cell growth and division

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Author and illustrator Yuval Zommer gave a free talk on his book The Wild

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The 2025 Oxford Literary Festival takes place between Saturday 29 March and Sunday 6 April

The Telegraph Festival media partner University of Oxford European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Oxford Mathematics Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Jim Mellon Tim and Marion Stevenson Martin and Elise Becket Smith Miles Young David Isaac Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Anna Hunter Rhys and Kerry Phillip Yale University Press London Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 New College New College founded 1379 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 New Dutch Writing Critchleys Accountants to the festival Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Human Ecology Project MACROVegan Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Goldmoney Properties Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Confucius Institute Pusey House Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Conference Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates CAV Oxford The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Voltaire Foundation OX magazine Ox in a Box The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders Windrush Group James Currey Society

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The Oxford Literary Festival sponsors, donors & partners

The Telegraph Festival media partner University of Oxford European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Oxford Mathematics Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Jim Mellon Tim and Marion Stevenson Martin and Elise Becket Smith Miles Young David Isaac Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Anna Hunter Rhys and Kerry Phillip Yale University Press London Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 New College New College founded 1379 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 New Dutch Writing Critchleys Accountants to the festival Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Human Ecology Project MACROVegan Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Goldmoney Properties Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Confucius Institute Pusey House Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Conference Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates CAV Oxford The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Voltaire Foundation OX magazine Ox in a Box The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders Windrush Group James Currey Society