Indian Programme

Vaseem Khan and Carolyn Kirby chaired by Triona Adams

Empires and Crimes
Lincoln College: Oakeshott Room 12:00pm Sat 16 Saturday, 16 March 2024 See this event
Ruchira Gupta interviewed by Holly Bourne

I Kick and I Fly
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 12:00pm Sat 16 Saturday, 16 March 2024 See this event
Ashwini Mokashi

Sapiens and Sthitaprajna: The Concept of a Wise Person in the Stoic Seneca
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 4:00pm Fri 22 Friday, 22 March 2024 See this event
Manjiri Prabhu interviewed by Boyd Tonkin

Legend of the Snow Queen
Lincoln College: Oakeshott Room 10:00am Sun 24 Sunday, 24 March 2024 See this event

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I came away buzzing and reassured that we still have in this century a wide ranging community fascinated not just by famous authors (I’ve rarely seen so many concentrated in one place) but by challenging ideas and questions.

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

The night in Oxford was the most beautiful event I have ever done. Not just the spectacular setting (of the Sheldonian), but an unforgettable evening.

The Oxford festival is the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals. It’s a pleasure to both attend and perform there.

The Oxford Literary Festival has in my mind become the leading literary festival of the year. The organisation, the roster of speakers, the ambience and the sheer quality of it all is superb. May it now go from strength to strength each year stretching its ambition more and more. I believe it will.

Every literary festival stays in an author’s mind for slightly individual reasons. I shall remember the Oxford festival for: - the size of the audience: at the top end of the range - their intelligence – this makes a huge difference for a speaker. In the Oxford audience I encountered many experts in the field my book covered and even one of the ambassadors I’d quoted - the beauty and the grace of the place itself – incomparable - the willingness of my hearers to buy books afterwards; I’ve never sold more.

A stimulating and rewarding on-stage conversation; a lively informed and tolerant audience; privileged access to the great treasures of the Bodleian, and finally, wonderfully interesting dinner companions to help me conclude the best day I have enjoyed at any festival – anywhere.

I loved the whole atmosphere of the Oxford Literary Festival. From breakfast, alongside some of the attendees, who were talking books with each other a mile a minute, to the public event at The Sheldonian where everyone was lively and engaged – I felt I had arrived in a kind of literary heaven.