Posted July 30Jul 30 The Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival 2026 will be curated by Dua and the Service95 Book Club, which will be taken part from October 21 until November 1.https://www.instagram.com/p/DbXvnh8jMq0/We're so excited to finally share the programme for Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival 2026, curated by Dua Lipa and the Service95 Book Club.This year's line-up brings together some of our favourite voices: icons like Patti Smith, Zadie Smith and Mustafa, to the writers, poets and thinkers shaping the conversations we can't stop having.Here's a taste of what's to come:📚 Translated Fiction Showcase – the fiction you need to know about, featuring Samanta Schweblin (Argentina), Nelio Biedermann (Switzerland), Gaël Faye (Rwanda) and Intan Paramaditha (Indonesia).📚 Fierce Sounds – an evening exploring rhythm, form and sound in writing with Kae Tempest, Omar Musa, Sufiyaan Salam and Jacqueline Crooks.📚 Rewriting Male Tenderness - with Caleb Azumah Nelson and Tomasz Jedrowski.📚 Nadia Murad – the activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in conversation.📚 Service95 x English PEN: Censorship Live! hosted by journalist and broadcaster Oliver Bullough.
October 3Oct 3 Author Dua has shared more details about the Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival 2026.https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd_6vdSjgoU/The countdown to Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival 2026, curated by Dua Lipa and Service95 Book Club, is on. From Tuesday 20 October to Sunday 1 November, expect a line-up that brings together Pulitzer winners and a Nobel laureate on the same bill as an estate publishing collective and zine-maker.Swipe for a taste of what’s in store.📚 Writer Zadie Smith discusses her extraordinary 2000 debut novel, White Teeth, in conversation with Dua. 📚 Rewriting Male Tenderness: A conversation on masculinity, intimacy and vulnerability with Caleb Azumah Nelson, Cenac Rollins and Tomasz Jedrowski.📚 Poet Mustafa and Dua on the poetry that moves them, in an intimate conversation.📚 Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist Nadia Murad on her life, work and fight for justice.📚 Legendary musician and writer Patti Smith on her intimate memoir Bread Of Angels, in conversation with Dua.
October 13Oct 13 Author More details about the Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival 2026.https://www.instagram.com/p/DeZmDXVjtyU/Still time to get your tickets! London Literature Festival 2026 is almost here, with the Southbank Centre set to welcome literary icons, boundary-pushing writers and some of the most exciting new voices to the city. Curated by Dua Lipa and Service95 Book Club, the festival runs from Tuesday 20 October to Sunday 1 November, with conversations, workshops, stories and big ideas across the programme.Swipe for a taste of what’s in store.📚 Translated Fiction Showcase – the fiction you need to know about, featuring Samanta Schweblin (Argentina), Nelio Biedermann (Switzerland), Gael Faye (Rwanda) and Intan Paramaditha (Indonesia). Hosted by Hope Ndaba.📚 Fierce Sounds – an evening exploring rhythm, form and sound in writing with Kae Tempest, Omar Bin Musa, Jacqueline Crooks, Sufiyaan Salam and Yomi Sode. 📚 Service95 x English PEN: Censorship Live! – hosted by journalist and broadcaster Oliver Bullough confronting rising threats to expression. 📚Creative Encounters - make, create and explore with artist Zoë Thompson, inspired by Livraria Lello’s Manifesto Library and its books challenging power and censorship.
October 20Oct 20 Author Dua made an ASMR episode of BOOKMARK'd with Secret London.https://www.instagram.com/p/DerIurQinWh/
October 21Oct 21 Author Another episode of BOOKMARK'd with Dua and Secret London.https://www.tiktok.com/@secret.london/video/7698772526406569238https://www.instagram.com/p/DeuJZ3Jind2/"I looked up because of the laughter, and kept looking because of the girls."Some opening lines just stay with you. Dua Lipa tells us why this one from Emma Cline's The Girls has always stuck with her, as we catch up ahead of this year's London Literature Festival at Southbank Centre, where she's curating the line-up with her Service95 Book Club.Videography - Phoebe AndersonProducer - Fleur BaileyInterview - Kim Kaur BansiLocation - Rosewood London#culture
October 22Oct 22 Author This reel was shown at Piccadilly Lights to promote the Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival 2026.https://www.instagram.com/p/DexDittArNZ/The value of a book comes from seeing the world differently because of it.To celebrate the start of London Literature Festival, curated by Dua Lipa and Service95 Book Club, tonight we took over Piccadilly Lights to share a special message from Dua, brought to life by the wonderful illustrator and animator Rama Duwaji. It serves as a reminder that books do far more than tell stories. They help us witness the world through different eyes, walk in unfamiliar shoes and understand perspectives beyond our own. Join us at the Southbank Centre from today until Sunday 1 November to discover the literary icons and exciting new voices inspiring us all to Read The World Differently.Get your tickets here.Words by: Dua LipaAnimation by: Rama DuwajiSound Design by: Leila Wilkinson
October 22Oct 22 Author Some takes from the Piccadilly Lights, as well as the shots from the first session of the London Literature Festival 2026 by Keshia Hannam, who is the Global Editor in Chief of Service95.https://www.instagram.com/p/DexqnVFCKUI/Tonight we celebrated the opening of the #londonliteraturefestival, this year curated by Dua Lipa and the Service95 Book Club, with this stunning art piece about what books do for the world, by Dua & Rama Duwaji which aired in Piccadilly Circus.First session: On Freedom - a conversation between the great Ta-Nehisi Coates and Tareq Baconi, moderated (brilliantly) by Nesrine Malik. Moved by their clarity and compassion.Can't wait for the next ten days 💓
October 22Oct 22 Author Dua was interviewed by The Standard, where she talked about curating the London Literature Festival, as well as other things, like her love of books, her favourite authors, how reading inspires her songwriting and her connection with Callum in terms of books. You could read the the interview here.
October 23Oct 23 Author More information about the references of the reel shown at Piccadilly Lights.https://www.instagram.com/p/Dezg7Ffl7d5/Last night, we took over Piccadilly Lights to celebrate the start of #LondonLiteratureFestivalThe animation created by Rama Duwaji depicted scenes from books featured in the festival's curated line-up and we saw some of you guessing which books Dua Lipa referenced.How many did you get right?See the animation at the Southbank Centre until Sunday 1 November and find more event info at the link here.📸 by Hugo Glendinning
October 24Oct 24 Author There's going to be a book swap at the festival, plus a new reel of Piccadilly Circus.https://www.instagram.com/p/Deynfy8F4dT/https://www.instagram.com/p/DezDU1njeaR/
October 25Oct 25 Author Dua was interviewed by The Independent ahead of the London Literature Festival where she shares her tips for reading more as well as her Desert Island picks, if reading inspires her music, her reading routine, the books she most often gives as gifts, whether she would write her own book or not, plus other things. You could read the full interview here.
October 25Oct 25 Author As the text of the reel below says, Dua recited "Just Being Alive It Can Really Hurt" by Hanif Abdurraqib during the London Literature Festival. This is one of the poems that Mustafa (formerly known as Mustafa the Poet) compiled in his book NOUR.https://www.instagram.com/p/De5BY5UIOY7/
October 26Oct 26 Author New episode of BOOKMARK'd with Dua and Secret London.https://www.instagram.com/p/De7hJ5PxKj8/
October 26Oct 26 Author Pictures of Safia Elhillo, Victoria Chang, Dua and Mustafa during the London Literature Festival.https://www.instagram.com/p/De5lT10CLKr/https://www.instagram.com/p/De6w6YziE3H/
October 26Oct 26 Author More pictures and a reel of Dua and Mustafa discussing NOIR.https://www.instagram.com/p/De5ln41iEEB/https://www.instagram.com/p/De6Rcb4x68v/
October 26Oct 26 Author More pictures of Dua with Zadie Smith, Mustafa and Patti Smith during the London Literature Festival.https://www.instagram.com/p/De9S5OojDEs/
October 27Oct 27 Author Some pictures and reels from Dua and Zadie Smith of their Saturday conversation at the London Literature Festival.https://www.instagram.com/p/De9owBrl7b7/https://www.instagram.com/p/De-H_MyE8tH/
October 28Oct 28 Author Dua was interviewed by i-D, where she talks about the books that have impacted her the most.
October 28Oct 28 Author Some pictures and reels from Dua and Mustafa of their Saturday conversation at the London Literature Festival.https://www.instagram.com/p/DfAjlWugO-M/https://www.instagram.com/p/DfCvXILEtJj/
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