Mar 31 - Oxford Literary Festival’s Sold Out Gibraltar Lecture
Minister for Tourism, Commercial Affairs, Public Transport and the Port Neil Costaintroduced the hugely successful inaugural ‘Gibraltar Lecture’ by African author Ben Okri at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival.
Mr Okri was one of the big names that took part in the Gibraltar Gibunco Literary Festival in 2013.
The sold out event, held on Saturday March 29th, was chaired by writer Paul Blezard and it was followed by a lunch hosted by Minister Costa.
The packed auditorium included Minister for Justice Gilbert Licudi and several other Gibraltar Government officials. Gibraltarian Students from Oxford Brookes University also attended the lecture.
Mr Costa said he was delighted to be introducing Ben Okri’s lecture and restated his commitment to cultural events of this nature.
Commenting, the Minister noted, ‘this lecture was a taster for our own Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival which will be held for the second time in November. Everyone agrees that the first festival in 2013 was a huge success and we had an overwhelmingly encouraging and positive response from the community. We are now working very hard to ensure that we can attract a prestigious contingent of authors to meet and even surpass the standards achieved last year.’
