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    Live from the Hay Cartagena festival

    / January 31, 2010 / Leave a comment
    The fifth Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia’s jewel on the Caribbean Coast, has begun in style. The sun has shone brightly, drawing out the vivid yellows, pinks and blues of the colonial cit’s houses, churches, theatres and cafés; the breezes from the sea sweep through the streets; salsa and the...
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    Hay in Cartagena Blog: Day 2

    / February 1, 2009 / 1 Comment
    The day began in style with a tour de force from Jon Snow, in the beautiful courtyard of the Claustro de Santo Domingo.  Dappled sunlight fell on the 300-strong crowd, 3/4 Colombian, 1/4 Anglophone. Snow spoke fluently, amusingly and with conviction on the theme of  ´living with the gringos´, recounting...
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    Hay Cartagena Literary Festival: day 1

    / January 30, 2009 / 2 Comments
    It has been a good start to the Hay Festival in Cartagena. The old colonial city centre has never looked more beautiful: glorious, dilapidated colonial houses; blazing sunshine; and full of Colombian coastal life, with voluptuous fruit-sellers balancing plates of watermelon, papaya and pineapple on their heads; vallenato, the Colombian coastal...
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    Hay in Cartagena: a preview

    / January 23, 2009 / 3 Comments
    Hay-on-Wye’s sister literary festival in the altogether sunnier climes of Colombia’s Caribbean coast begins next week, and I will be writing a daily blog for Prospect from Cartagena to cover the event, as well as interviewing some of the authors present. There’s an enticing line-up of literary and cultural figures...
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