Cambridge Literary Festival

Spring & Winter Festivals + One-off events

For the love of books

Where writing and listening come together

A festival full of surprises

We listen, we think, we laugh

Winter Festival 2020 Children's Events

Bringing an eclectic mix of today’s best writers, thinkers and speakers to Cambridge all year round

19–29 November  | 40+ events

WINTER FESTIVAL ONLINE - 2020

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Throughout the year

ONE-OFF EVENTS

Our Tiny Team strives to bring you exclusive, one-off events all year round

Past one-off speakers include Patti Smith, Colm Tóibín, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, and many more… 

2019

Patti Smith

Because the night belonged to us

2017

Arundhati Roy

A triumphant return to fiction

2015

Margaret Atwood

A fabulous evening with Dame Gillian Beer

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"I’ve missed literary festivals"

John Crace

"Books mean all possibilities"

Ali Smith
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"Literary festivals... are among our last remaining democratic spaces"

Elif Shafak, Festival Patron

"Identity is not a place... you have to make peace with the place you are in"

Afua Hirsch

"Ireland has the imagination to change"

Colm Toibin

"Misremembering our past is a delusion"

David Olusoga

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*NEW* CLF Player

Watch and listen to our expanding archive of over 60 audio and video recordings from our previous festivals. Delight in the world’s most engaging thinkers, speakers and writers on film and audio online, anytime.

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