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| Marlon James, 2015 Booker prize-winner, with OCA alumni, Pat |
A Day at the Hay with the OCA
A day in the sun at Hay…it’s one of the selling points of the Hay Festival – photos on the website are focused on people under sun umbrellas reading their latest purchase and drinking cool lager. This is a risky ploy for a Welsh summer event, but it paid off for the Open College of the Arts posse that arrived at the festival grounds on bank holiday Saturday. We’d come for the culture, of course we had. We’d come for the literature, naturally, for the heightened conversation we’d enjoy with each other after sharing events. But the fact the sun was out certainly helped. We'd come to see the stars of the literary world, and they turned out to be really nice people as well as great writers...
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| A Nobel Laureate, a Man-Booker winner, the Samual Johnson Prize winner... no, not us in the selfie, the great writers we'd come to enjoy |