Hay Festival Segovia - Return to Robert Graves - Reading of letters and texts

Saturday 14 September 2024 – Jardín Romeral de San Marcos - Segovia

William Graves, son and literary executor of Robert Graves, visits the Hay Festival Segovia to talk about his father's literary legacy. An important part of this legacy were his letters, an intense correspondence that he maintained from Mallorca with writers, artists, muses and famous people of the time. This immense archive is kept at the Robert Graves Foundation in Deià, the town to which Graves moved after leaving the United Kingdom with a resounding Goodbye to all that. William will read extracts from these letters, and other narrative and poetry texts by his father. There is no better reason than to celebrate the recent publication of Goodbye to All That, in a complete edition with a new translation.

The reading will be accompanied by the voices of other writers or artists present in Segovia such as Caroline Michel, Giles Tremlett, Ana Bosch, Andrew Brown, Pilar Álvarez, Almudena Bermejo, Debbi Christophers, and the Ambassador of Her Britannic Majesty for Spain, Alex Ellis, paragraphs will be chosen from other works by Robert Graves such as I, Claudius or The White Goddess. Félix Valdivieso will join the readings as master of ceremonies.

16th International Conference on Robert Graves - Robert Graves and the public imagination

Sunday 14th to Wednesday 18th September 2024 - St. John's College, University of Oxford

Catalan Book Week

Sunday 29th September 2024 - Passeig Lluís Companys, Barcelona

Balearic Morning - Rediscovering Robert Graves in Catalan. Conversation with William Graves.

Participating: William Graves, Eduard Moyà, translator of El Crestell Rost, and Nofre Moyà, translator. Organized by: l’Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics

Prize Diario de Mallorca 2024 - Category Culture

Wednesday, October 2 - Club Diario de Mallorca

Awarded to the children of Robert Graves, William (executor), Lucia (writer and translator) and Tomàs (musician), they have been worthy of the Award in the Culture category for their careers and for having kept alive the impressive legacy of their father, the British writer and scholar, author of works such as I, Claudius or The White Goddess, who found his place in Deià. This year a new translation of Goodbye to All That has been published, an autobiography written when he was 34 years old, shocked by the atrocity of war.