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Edinburgh International Book Festival Starts Tomorrow

12/8/2016

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Tomorrow sees the start of the Edinburgh International Book Festival – a two-week long public celebration of the written word.

This year’s festival takes place from 13-29 August, and brings together more than 800 writers and thinkers from all over the world.

This year’s highlight include:
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  • Erica Jong talking about her coming-of-age novel, Fear of Dying
  • Han Kang talking about the Man Booker prize-winning The Vegetarian, and writing fiction in translation with her translator Deborah Smith
  • Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown talking about globalisation and the new populism
  • Mark Thompson, formerly the Director General of the BBC, arguing why the internet and 24 hour news has failed to lead to better democracy
  • Lebanese novelist Nada Awar Jarrar and Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan discussing their fictional accounts of encounters with refugees
  • And the newly appointed Scottish Makar, Jackie Kay, being interviewed by Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland
 
Alongside the general programme is a children’s programme, which has grown to become a “leading showcase for children’s writers and illustrators”.
 
The book festival’s home is Charlotte Square Gardens, which is transformed into a tented village for the duration of the festival and will welcome some 220,000 visitors.
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The book festival also runs its own independent bookselling operation, with all the proceeds from the sale of books invested in the running of the festival. The book festival is a charitable organisation which annually raises more than 80 percent of its own funds.
 

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