The Folio Prize Fiction Festival

In anticipation of the announcement of the first winner of The Folio Prize, the British Library will host a new two-day fiction festival featuring some of the world’s finest writers and critics, all drawn from The Folio Prize Academy.

The Festival will be presented by The Folio Society, sponsor of The Folio Prize, in partnership with the British Library on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 March 2014. The winner of The Folio Prize will be announced on Monday 10 March at a ceremony in central London.

The Folio Academy continues to grow and evolve, with an ever-increasing variety of voices. New Academy members announced today are:

Tash Aw, Carol Birch, NoViolet Bulawayo, Lucy Caldwell, Sarah Churchwell, Elizabeth Day, Louise Doughty, Richard Francis, Neil Gaiman, Damon Galgut, Petina Gappah, Helon Habila, Rawi Hage, Kent Haruf, Aleksandar Hemon, Kathryn Heyman, M.J. Hyland, Lars Iyer, Maya Jaggi, Michelle de Kretser, Rachel Kushner, Sam Leith, Frances Leviston, Tao Lin, Hisham Matar, Eimear McBride, Glyn Maxwell, Daniel Mendelsohn, Philipp Meyer, Maggie O’Farrell, Andrew O’Hagan, Sergio De La Pava, Jacob Polley, John Preston, Michael Prodger, Ian Rankin, Michele Roberts, Owen Sheers, Lionel Shriver, Peter Stanford, Adam Thirlwell, Adam Thorpe, Scott Turow, Jess Walter.

The full press release can be found here.