Hay Festivals around the world

Word spread and the annual event grew quickly. By 2001, the festival was building its own tented village to fit the thousands who travelled to hear from the likes of Doris Lessing, William Golding, Margaret Atwood, Amos Oz, Bob Geldof, Edna O’Brien, Tony Benn, Michael Palin, Salman Rushdie, Joseph Heller, Christopher Hitchens, Ian McEwan, Louis de Bernieres, Helen Fielding, Stephen Hawking, Terry Pratchett, Nigella Lawson, Stephen Fry, Vikram Seth, Paul Auster, Tom Wolfe, Marian Keyes, Bill Bryson, Patricia Cornwell, Gillian Clarke, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Zadie Smith.

In 2001 Bill Clinton christened it “the Woodstock of the Mind”. And who are we to argue with that?

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