Colombian writer Hector Abad Faciolince will be in conversation with Rosie Boycott this year at Hay on Wye 2011. Faciolince is the author of Oblivion A Memoir, published in 2010 by Old Street Publishing and translated by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey.
Hector Abad Faciolince talks to Rosie Boycott : OBLIVION
A heartrending, exquisitely-written memorial to the author’s father, Hector Abad Gomez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987.
Friday 3 June 2011, 10am * Elmley Foundation Theatre, £4
Juan Esteban Contain, Colombian historian and author will also be in Hay on Wye 2011 invited by the British Council to cover the festival for The Daily Telegraph and Colombian newspaper El Tiempo.
26 MAY – 5 JUN 2011
For more information: http://www.hayfestival.com
