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Helen Dunmore, 2003
Andrew Motion in Walberberg, 2004

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The Walberberg seminar
Authors 1986 - 2007

2007 You cannot be serious!
Glenn Patterson (Chair), Wendy Cope, Patricia Duncker, Anne Enright, Jamie McKendrick, Patrick Neate

2006 Home?

Glenn Patterson (Chair), Louise Doughty, Carlo Gebler, Romesh Gunesekera, Sinead Morrissey, Adam Thorpe

2005 Whose English?
Ali Smith (Chair), Jackie Kay, Fred D'Aguiar, Ciaran Carson, Toby Litt, Sebastian Barry, Elke Schmitter

2004 The World and the Study
Andrew Motion (Chair), Jonathan Coe, David Edgar, Jo Shapcott, Helen Simpson, George Szirtes

2003 Creative Writing
Andrew Motion (Chair), Jim Crace, Patience Agbabi, Helen Dunmore, John Burnside, Ali Smith

2002 Creative Writing, Creative Reading
Paul Muldoon (Chair), Glenn Patterson, Andrew Motion, Simon Armitage, Bernardine Evaristo, Jane Rogers

2001 Translation
Paul Muldoon (Chair), Tim Parks, Jackie Kay, Marina Carr, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson

2000 Different Genres of Literature
Michèle Roberts (Chair), Livi Michael, Richard Holmes, Fred D'Aguiar, Alison Fell, Timberlake Wertenbaker

1999 Autobiography

Michèle Roberts (Chair), Bernard MacLaverty, Paul Bailey, John Agard, Livi Michael (cancelled), Winsome Pinnock (cancelled)

1998 Translation
A S Byatt (Chair), A L Kennedy, Lawrence Norfolk, Tibor Fischer, John Fuller, Philip Hensher

1997 Translation
A S Byatt (Chair), Lavinia Greenlaw, Jenny Uglow, Louis de Bernières, Robert Irwin, Michael Hofmann

1996 Writing in Contemporary Britain
Marina Warner (Chair), Jane Rogers, Jenny Diski, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Glyn Maxwell, Amit Chaudhuri, Paul Muldoon

1995 Imaginary Voices
Caryl Phillips (Chair), Maura Dooley, James Fenton, Michèle Roberts, Marina Warner, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie (Surprise Guest)

1994 Roots and Routes
Caryl Phillips (Chair), Kathleen Jamie, Pauline Melville, Bernice Rubens, Graham Swift

1993 Whose City?
Valentine Cunningham (Chair), Jim Crace, Geoff Dyer, John Fuller, Kathy Page, Fay Weldon

1992 I Am an English Writer
Valentine Cunningham (Chair), Alan Hollinghurst, Liz Lochhead, Moy McCrory, Marina Warner, Nigel Williams

1991 Balance Between Diverse Cultures
Valentine Cunningham (Chair), A S Byatt, David Constantine, Maggie Gee, Wilson Harris, Timothy Mo

1990 On Being at Home in Britain
Christopher Hope (Chair), Angela Carter, Anne Devlin, Amryl Johnson, Caryl Phillips

1989 Writers from Elsewhere
Christopher Hope (Chair), A S Byatt, Douglas Dunn, Penelope Lively

1988 Contemporary Fiction
Malcolm Bradbury (Chair), Christopher Hope, Blake Morrison, Jonathan Raban, Rose Tremain, Michèlene Wandor

1987 Writing: A Personal View
Malcolm Bradbury (Chair), Margret Drabble, David Edgar, Kazuo Ishiguro, Anthony Thwaite

1986 Contemporary British Writing
Malcolm Bradbury (Chair), David Edgar, Ian McEwan, Craig Raine


   
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