A Return to Robert Graves

William Graves, son and literary executor of Robert Graves, comes to the Hay Festival Segovia to talk about his father's literary legacy. An important part of this legacy were his letters from Mallorca, an intense correspondence which Graves maintained with writers, artists, muses and celebrities of the time. This immense archive is kept at the Robert Graves Foundation in Deià, the town to which Graves moved after leaving the United Kingdom with a resounding Good-Bye to All That. William will read excerpts from the letters, and other narrative and poetic texts by his father. And what better way to celebrate the recent publication of Goodbye to All That, in an unabridged edition with a new translation.

The voices of other writers and artists present in Segovia will accompany the reading, including Caroline Michel, Giles Tremlett, Ana Bosch, Andrew Brown, Pilar Álvare, Almudena Bermejo and Debbi Christophers, and His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain, Alex Ellis, who will read paragraphs from his other works including I, Claudius, and The White Goddess. The readers will be joined by Félix Valdivieso as master of ceremonies.

In case of rain, the event will be moved to the IE University Sala Capitular

With readings in Spanish and English