Hay Festival
Festival de Hay
annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales
Hay-on-Wye · Wales · United Kingdom
🗓️ When?
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- Founded
- 1988
📍 Where?
- Town
- Hay-on-Wye
- Region
- Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- How precise?
- the festival's own coordinate
ℹ️ Details
- Website
- hayfestival.com
- Status
- unclear
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, or simply the Hay Festival, is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, for 10 days from May to June. Devised by Norman, Rhoda and Peter Florence in 1988, the festival was described by Bill Clinton in 2001 as "The Woodstock of the mind". Tony Benn said: "In my mind it's replaced Christmas".
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