Edmund de Waal

Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes was perhaps the most praised British book of last year, a prize-winning sensation and a bestseller, telling the story of 264 Japanese carvings of domestic scenes and animals, called netsuke, whose journey embodies that of the author’s own family. H’s also one of Britain’s most renowned ceramicists and his
distinctive celadon pottery is collected and exhibited worldwide. His two practices are linked: “Lots of reading goes into my pots. My own way of making things comes out of a great deal of thinking about literature”.

Edmund returns to the festival this year with a special event created for Port Eliot, walking us through five of the cities of his book: London, Paris, Vienne, Tokyo and Odessa.

“…as full of beauty and whimsy as a netsuke from the hands of a master carver”
- The Economist

“It is a rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human”
- Daily Telegraph

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