Trust & Festival News

It is perhaps unsurprising, given his wide, international appeal, to discover that a biography, appropriately entitled Graham Greene, has been written by Aleksandr Livergant and published in Russia. It has not been translated into English. I am grateful to Konstantin Shishkin for sending me an image of it. It is fascinating to try to ‘read’ […]

Entries can now be submitted  for the Graham Greene Film Review Competition for which  the winner will receive a prize of £500. Although Graham Greene’s work as a film reviewer, particularly in the 1930s, provides the inspiration for the prize, entrants are not expected to try to submit a review in the style of Greene. […]

The Graham Greene International Festival is over for another year but certainly not forgotten. If you missed the event but want to know what took place, you are invited to turn to the Resources and Archive page. There you will find the full programme for the event presented in a day-by-day format, profiles of the […]

An exciting new competition was announced on the Saturday of the 2019 Festival. The Graham Greene Birthplace Trust is launching a brand new competition in which entrants will be asked to write a Film Review. All the details will appear shortly on a new page on this website which will explain the rules and give […]

The 21st Graham Greene International Festival is only a matter of days away. At present, fair weather is promised which means that, between events, festival-goers will be able to enjoy relaxed strolls in the historic Berkhamsted Castle grounds, along the tow-path of the Grand Union Canal or among the shops and restaurants of the vibrant […]

Dear All, I hope you are very well, enjoying the last of the summer, and looking forward to the Graham Greene International Festival 2019. I am delighted to inform you that Helen Boden will again be displaying the prints that have been produced in some of her art groups and this year, there will be […]

The recent and sudden death of Lucy – our fellow and youngest Trustee – gave us the greatest sorrow and heartache. In the first years of the Graham Greene International Festival, now some decades ago, we were struck by the attendance of the lovely and youthful Lucy, brought to us by her parents Mike and […]

In A Sort of Life, Greene comments laconically that in Nottingham he found a town ‘as haunting as Berkhamsted’. He would later use it as a setting both for a novel and a play. On Saturday 19 October, at the Catholic Cathedral Church of St. Barnabas, there is a half day of study entitled ‘Faith, […]

Regular Festival-goers will be very familiar with the name Neil Sinyard. Professor Sinyard has given a number of talks at Berkhamsted, particularly on Greene and the cinema. He has frequently ’rounded-off’ events in his inimitably witty, yet profound style, sending the Festivalites home with a smile on their faces. I am delighted to say that […]

The title of Professor Kevin Ruane talk on the Friday morning of the forthcoming festival makes interesting reading: ‘”It was our bible”: US Vietnam War era Reporters (1965-1975) and the impact of Graham Greene’s The Quiet American.’ The Quiet American had been first published in the USA by Viking Press in March 1956. In February […]