Laetitia maklouf biography

The Oxford festival is the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals.

It’s a pleasure to both attend and perform there.

It was a privilege for me to visit the festival to receive the Bodley Medal.

As an incidental blessing I saw Oxford at its most mysterious and atmospheric. It was a day of piercing cold and as I walked through the twilight from the Sheldonian to Christ Church, the streets were empty and the whole city was shutting itself away.

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Christ Church was silent except for the footfall of unseen persons around corners and the sounds of evensong creeping from behind closed doors. For the first time I understood thoroughly the power of college ghost stories.

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

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