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Jojo Moyes in Conversation with Sheila Crowley
P Today, 3.45 p.m. CrossMedia Theatre
T
HE PATH TO success for Jojo Moyes was hardly straight. She published eight
broadly historical novels with Hodder in the 1990s and 2000s, with respectable, if modest, returns. Out of contract, she switched tack and penned Me Before You, and was snapped up by Michael Joseph. Then the deluge: huge international sales for her Michael Joseph titles and a box-office hit with the film adaptation of the novel. Moyes’ success in Hollywood is one of the reasons why she was named the ambassador for LBF’s sister event, London Book & Screen Week. She will be interviewed here by her agent, Curtis Brown’s Sheila Crowley.
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Nick Harkaway in Conversation with Patrick Gale Today, 11 a.m., English PEN Literary Salon
Why We Commissioned These Débuts Today, 1.45 p.m., Author HQ
£15.9m
Value sales through the UK TCM for Jojo Moyes since records began in 1998.
Her top-selling title is Me Before You, which has earned the author £5.7m across all print editions
Transformations: Women’s Writing from the Edges
P Today, 4.00 p.m. Cross-Cultural Hub
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Journalist, filmmaker and broadcaster
Bidisha will chair the hour-long session
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F THERE IS a common theme in the work of this seminar’s speakers—Latvian Author of the Day Nora Ikstena, Welsh novelist Alys Conran and jour- nalist and filmmaker Bidisha— it is that they all oſten deal with women who have been margin- alised by societ. The women in Ikstena’s
Latvian bestseller Soviet Milk (Pereine), for example, suffer
because they cannot conform or adapt to the rigid and stultifying Soviet occupation. The chil- dren who feature in Conran’s Wales Book of the Year-winning Pigeon (Parthian) are impover- ished, unsetled and have trou- ble fiting in. The three women will discuss what drives them to write stories about characters from the margins.
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Women Whose Names Were Erased Today, 1 p.m., Poet’s Corner
Nora Ikstena, the Latvian novelist of bestseller Soviet Milk, is one of three Baltic Countries’ Authors of the Day
Through a Child’s Eyes: Baltic and UK Perspectives on Writing Fiction 12th April, 1 p.m., Cross-Cultural Hub
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