Internationally renowned author Kazuo Ishiguro will be attending the opening night of From Page to Screen, the UK’s only film festival dedicated to the adaptation of books into films.
The first night Wednesday 13 April will feature the film adaptation of Ishiguro’s best-selling novel `Never Let Me Go’, following an on stage conversation between the author and Jonathan Coe, From Page to Screen’s artistic director and writer of bestsellers What a Carve Up! and The Rotters’ Club. See From Page to Screen Itenerary
Ishiguro, who won the Booker prize for his novel `Remains of the Day’, will open the film festival, to be held in Bridport on April 13-17th 2011.
Coe said: “Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the most loved literary novelists of the past decade. We are delighted that he is coming to this year’s From Page to Screen event and it will be fascinating to hear him talk about the relationship between film and the written word.’’
Ishiguro said: “I was thrilled to discover that there is now a film festival dedicated to the adaptation of books into films and I am really looking forward to taking part in it.’’
Other highlights of the festival will include screenings of `Brighton Rock’, based on the novel of the same name by Graham Greene, `Barney’s Version’, a film adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s last novel, ‘The Dead’, adapted from the short story of the same name by James Joyce, and `They Were Sisters’, based on a novel by Dorothy Whipple.
From Page To Screen was founded in 2007 by Bridport Arts Centre, as a sister-festival to the Bridport Literary Festival and the Bridport Prize – one of the UK’s longest running and respected literary prizes.
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