Dinners
Frederick Forsyth
Black Tie Literary Dinner with Frederick Forsyth
6:00pm | Friday 14 September 2012Tickets: | Duration: | Venue: |
£N/A | Half Day | Blenheim Palace: The Orangery |
This was an Oxford Literary Festival 2012 Event.
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Dinner in the Presence of HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO
Dress Code: Black Tie
We are delighted to welcome international bestselling writer Frederick Forsyth as our guest speaker at this year’s prestigious literary dinner held in Sir John Vanburgh’s orangery at Blenheim Palace.
Forsyth was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award this year for an outstanding lifetime contribution. His works need little introduction and many have been made into hugely successful feature films. They include Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, and Dogs of War. His most recent novels are The Afghan and The Cobra.
Forsyth will talk about the profession of writing for a living. He became a journalist after a spell as a jet fighter pilot in the RAF, working for Reuters and the BBC. He decided to apply the same research techniques he used in journalism to write a novel and the result was his first full-length work and international bestseller, The Day of the Jackal. His works are characterised by meticulous plotting based on detailed research.
Dinner is preceded by a reception in the Duke of Marlborough’s beautiful Italian Gardens. The price of this event includes reception drinks, dinner and wines.