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English Authors in Morges this weekend - debates, writing workshops and cruises!

The "Livre sur les quais" festival in Morges begins this Friday the 31st August and continues until Sunday 2nd September. Hundred of authors will gather in Morges to give readings, sign books and take part in many events including cruises with debates on a CGN boat and author readings on trains!

There is a full English programme at the festival with around a dozen writers present, from Tessa Hadley to Chibundu Onuzo and many more. Note: registration is required for the writing workshops. Programme below. For more information and registration details for workshops, click on "English programme" on the main website.

Photo above: Livre Sur Les Quais 2017. Marquees along the lakeside in Morges full of books, authors and readers!

Photo above from the 2017 festival - a debate on a CGN boat.

2018

English programme. 

Friday

16:30Encounter - with Aslı Erdoğan

18:00Debate - Nigerian voices with Chinelo OkparantaChibundu Onuzo

Saturday

11:00Encounter - The Spanish Flu with Laura Spinney

11:45Encounter - Writing Crime  with Luke McCallin

13:30

Debate - 

Writing War, Hope and Love  

with 

Aslı Erdoğan

Chinelo Okparanta

Geetanjali Shree

15:00Debate -  Urban Landscapes  with Chibundu OnuzoLisa McInerney

16:30Writing Workshop  "The Narrative Arc in Memoir" 

Sunday

12:30Literary Cruise, English Cruise - Geneva Writers Group Summer Cruise: Memoir and Fiction withMaggie O’FarrellElena Lappin

13:30English Programme for the young from 5 years old  - Workshop -  De drôles d’animaux 

with 
Tanja Louwers 
Imagine and design with an illustrator (simultaneous translation English/ French)

13:45Debate - Fictions of the Real with Claire FullerTessa HadleyMargriet de Moor

15:30Writing Workshop  - Fiction: "What to Leave out" with Anne Korkeakivi.

17:15Encounter - Ways to Wholeness: C.J. Jung and Writing with Susan Tiberghien

 
 
 
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