Festival Director Speech: What We Celebrate Is Enduring Sentences
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Festival Director Speech: What We Celebrate Is Enduring Sentences
Ladies and gentlemen, what this festival celebrates is not celebrity alone but sentences that survive translation and time.
It is readers who sustain authors, and sustain them they do when programmes front emerging voices beside established names.
We ought to have expanded accessibility years ago, yet expand it we did finally with captioning on every staged event.
Not until tonight did I dare thank volunteers whose substitution behind scenes makes stage glamour possible.
What organisers might have skipped was the grammar workshop, but attend it three hundred delegates did with surprising enthusiasm.
Seldom has a closing speech inverted gratitude so sincerely: never have we owed more to quiet editors than this season.
Ladies and gentlemen, what this festival celebrates is not celebrity alone but sentences that survive translation.
It is readers
