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The former wife of world-famous physicist Professor Stephen Hawking – whose memoir was transformed into an Oscar-winning film – will speak at this year’s literature festival.
Jane Hawking will give an insight into the pressures of dealing with fame, wealth and long-term illness at a special event as part of the Connections: Jersey Festival of Words 2015.
She has agreed to come to the Island for a special Q&A session after a screening of The Theory of Everything, the 2014 film that took $70 million around the world and earned a Best Actor Oscar for Eddie Redmayne for his portrayal of Professor Hawking.
The film screening is on Saturday 3 October from 1.45 to 3.45 (tickets £4) and Ms. Hawking’s talk from 4.15 to 5.15 pm (tickets £8).
Connections: Jersey Festival of Words is the Island’s first book festival. From 30 September to 4 October it will stage some 60 events at venues including the Library, Jersey Museum and CCA Galleries International as well as the Jersey Opera House.
Visiting writers include the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, novelist and playwright Owen Sheers, children’s writers Holly Smale, Jess Bright and Steven ‘Dennis the Menace’ Butler, nature writer Simon Barnes, comedy scriptwriter and novelist Will Smith, veteran agony aunt Irma Kurtz, social historian Julie Summers and business guru Rachel Bridge.
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