Southbank Centre Announces Spring Literature & Spoken Word 2025 programme with Amitav Ghosh, Maggie O’Farrell, Nnedi Okorafor

The Southbank Centre is proud to announce its Spring Literature 2025 season from February to June 2025, with programming that spans authors from our home in London to literary talent around the world. 

Celebrating new works by internationally-acclaimed names including Nnedi Okorafor (23 Feb), Abdulrazak Gurnah (27 Mar), Amitav Ghosh (10 Apr) and the International Booker Prize shortlisted writers (18 May), this season also celebrates the phenomenal talent of Maggie O’Farrell on the 25th anniversary of the publication of her debut novel After You’d Gone, marking her very first event at the Southbank Centre (30 Mar). Continuing to offer programming that aims to inspire the creators of the future, the National Poetry Library housed in the Royal Festival Hall welcomes back the European Poetry Festival (18 Jun) for the eighth consecutive year. Hosted for the first time at the Southbank Centre, the iconic live story competition, The Moth GrandSlam will decide the London storytelling champion in the Queen Elizabeth Hall (6 Jun).