1.   No, I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain.

2.   The director of the event is Peter Florence, who also founded the annual literature festival in the Welsh border town of Hay-on-Wye.

3.   Japanese Nobel laureate novelist Kenzabro Oe has cancelled a trip to a Japanese literature festival in Aix en Provence in October.

4.   Last month Oe cancelled a trip to a Japanese literature festival in Aix en Provence in October in protest.