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Chancellor’s Lecture: Life and Work

Penelope Lively Interviewed by Chris Patten

Friday, 25 March 2022

6:00pm

1 hour

Sheldonian Theatre

£7 - £12.50

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Booker prize-winning novelist Dame Penelope Lively talks about her life and work at the personal invitation of the chancellor of the University of Oxford Lord Chris Patten.

Lively is an award-winning writer of fiction for both children and adults. She has been shortlisted three times for the Booker prize, winning it in 1987 for Moon Tiger, a novel that spans the time before and after World War II. Her ghost story for children, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, won the prestigious Carnegie medal for an outstanding book for children or young adults. She holds the honorary fellowship of Oxford Literary Festival.

Here Lively talks to Patten, a former MP, cabinet minister, chairman of the Conservative Party, governor of Hong Kong and European commissioner, now chancellor of the University of Oxford.

In previous years the Chancellor’s lecture was given by:

Dr Mario Vargas Llosa – 2009
Jung Chang – 2011
Vikram Seth – 2012
Seamus Heaney – 2013
Orhan Pamuk – 2014
Amitav Ghosh – 2015
Professor Frank Dikötter – 2017
Sebastian Barry – 2018
Robert Harris – 2019

This event was originally scheduled for the 2020 festival. Tickets booked for this event remain valid for the new date. If you exchanged your ticket for a credit and still wish to attend, you will need to rebook using your credit. See how to use and claim credits.

Event sponsored by

University of Oxford
Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 Goldmoney Properties Felicity Bryan Associates Voltaire Foundation Confucius Institute Critchleys Accountants to the festival Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Oxford Business College Where learning meets opportunity: education partners of the festival Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller elBullifoundation Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Oxford Mathematics Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK University of Oxford The Telegraph Festival media partner Other donors Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture David Isaac Ian and Carol Sellars Martin and Elise Becket Smith Tim and Marion Stevenson Miles Young Jim Mellon Brasenose College Brasenose College founded in 1512 Pusey House Founded 1884 Reuben College Reuben College founded in 2019 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Lincoln College Lincoln College founded 1427 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 New College New College founded 1379 Yale University Press London The Oxford Times Windrush Group Schoolreaders The Litmus Partnership CAV Oxford Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies The Sheldonian Theatre University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Paul Bloomfield Ltd Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design MACROVegan Human Ecology Project New Dutch Writing Conference Oxford BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner OX magazine Ox in a Box
 

The Oxford Literary Festival sponsors, donors & partners

Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 Goldmoney Properties Felicity Bryan Associates Voltaire Foundation Confucius Institute Critchleys Accountants to the festival Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Oxford Business College Where learning meets opportunity: education partners of the festival Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller elBullifoundation Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Oxford Mathematics Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK University of Oxford The Telegraph Festival media partner Other donors Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture David Isaac Ian and Carol Sellars Martin and Elise Becket Smith Tim and Marion Stevenson Miles Young Jim Mellon Brasenose College Brasenose College founded in 1512 Pusey House Founded 1884 Reuben College Reuben College founded in 2019 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Lincoln College Lincoln College founded 1427 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 New College New College founded 1379 Yale University Press London The Oxford Times Windrush Group Schoolreaders The Litmus Partnership CAV Oxford Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies The Sheldonian Theatre University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Paul Bloomfield Ltd Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design MACROVegan Human Ecology Project New Dutch Writing Conference Oxford BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner OX magazine Ox in a Box