Drabble: I Am Boycotting Hay Literary Festival ; the Londoner's Diary

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NOVELIST Margaret Drabble says she'll never attend another Hay Literary Festival because authors are poorly served by their publishers and required to do too much to publicise their own books.

"I don't want to go to the Hay-on-Wye Festival again," she tells me. "I didn't like it that they paid President Clinton Pounds 100,000 when they don't usually pay their authors anything. Some writers will happily go for the Sprice of their supper, but I don't think they should be asked to do so.

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Drabble: I Am Boycotting Hay Literary Festival ; the Londoner's Diary

"I'm blaming publishers, not the festivals.

I think publishers rely to...

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