Award-winning writer Kei Miller, and founding member of Mercury Prize-winning band Young Fathers, Kayus Bankole, spoke at the Edinburgh International Book Festival online today, in an event reflecting on the journey they embarked on together across Ethiopia and Ghana earlier this year –…
Russian-American author and journalist Masha Gessen discussed power, President Trump and their book Surviving Autocracy with human rights QC Philippe Sands at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online this afternoon…
Internationally renowned Turkish writer, Elif Shafak, spoke to the Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Nick Barley, about her latest non-fiction text How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division,…
Celebrated Scottish historian William Dalrymple joined BBC special correspondent Fergal Keane in an Edinburgh International Book Festival online event this afternoon to talk about his latest book, The Anarchy:…
In 2018, The Panic! Arts report found that working-class people are dramatically under-represented in the arts, and it is – as many have long-known – a culture dominated by the white middle class…
In a conversation which covered her time from a war correspondent in Bosnia to her role as Human Rights Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power spoke this evening to BBC special correspondent and Chair of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Allan Little in the Frederick Hood Memorial Lecture…
One of Palestine’s most accomplished and internationally best-selling novelists, Susan Abulhawa, discussed her new novel Against The Loveless World with the prize-winning Egyptian novelist and political commentator Ahdaf Soueif…
“It’s good for translators to be public because they’re sort of forgotten” Ann Goldstein, translator of the internationally successful novels by Elena Ferrante, said in conversation with Lennie Goodings…
Following the announcement of The Discomfort of Evening as the winner of the 2020 International Booker Prize this afternoon, winning author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translator Michele Hutchison, along with their interpreter Johanna McCalmont, joined Chair of the Judges Ted Hodgkinson in their first public interview at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online this evening…
Douglas Stuart, the Glasgow born author of Shuggie Bain, recently longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, was in conversation with Damian Barr this evening at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online…
In an online conversation as part of the 2020 Edinburgh International Book Festival this afternoon the Palestinian writer Adania Shibli discussed language, movement and the oppression of occupation with Fatima Bhutto…
In a reflective hour of conversation with Charlotte Higgins, Chief Culture writer for the guardian, Helen Macdonald, award winning author of H is for Hawk, introduced her new collection of essays Vesper Flights at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online this evening…
Maryse Condé was joined by her husband and translator, Richard Philcox, in conversation with Maya Jaggi at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online today to discuss her recent novel, The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana,…
“We need to treat connectivity as a water supply, that it’s a given and a right” says Iain MacRitchie in conversation with Richard Thanki in an event chaired by Marjorie Lofti Gill at Edinburgh International Book Festival Online this morning…
Describing himself as a Cyber Optimist, Neuroscientist David Eagleman discussed his new book Livewire: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain with Jenny Niven at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online today…
23 year old Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong called for the voices of Hong Kongers to be heard around the world in a live conversation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival online this afternoon…
“I’m always really interested in the writing of everyday life because … when we’re desperately worried about climate change or even a pandemic or the multiple ends of the world, you still have to put dinner on the table.” Said Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater in conversation with Lennie Goodings today at Edinburgh International Book Festival Online…
Novelist Bernardine Evaristo spoke to Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online this evening about her ground-breaking novel Girl, Woman, Other…
The Haitian American author, Edwidge Danticat spoke from her home in Miami to Kamila Shamsie at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online this evening about Everything Inside, her first short story collection since Krik? Krak! In 1996…
Gordon Brown called for a message of hope in his conversation with Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President of the European Commission’s Green Deal this evening at the Edinburgh International Book Festival online…
“The past few months has us talking about race and gender in ways we haven’t before” said author Minna Salami in a conversation with Lola Olufemi chaired by Jade Bentil at the Edinburgh International Book Festival online this afternoon…
The winners of the James Tait Black Prizes prizes were announced by broadcaster Sally Magnusson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online this afternoon…
In a joyous hour filled with laughter, YA authors George Lester and Dean Atta revealed to their online audience that a group of flamingos is called a Flamboyance, the Edinburgh International Book Festival had made the dreams of both authors come true, and the hardest thing about writing fiction is keeping themselves out of it…
We are facing probably the greatest threat to human civilisation there has ever been” so said John Freeman, editor of Tales of Two Planets as he introduced a discussion on the climate crisis at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this afternoon…
The opening weekend of the Edinburgh International Book Festival online was always going to be a leap of faith – for authors, audiences and for the Book Festival’s own team who have had to completely change their way of delivering a festival…
“I wondered how Rachel from Rachel’s Holiday was getting on. I’ve started a sequel and I’m a good way into it” said Marian Keyes, much to the delight of her fans and her chair Jenny Colgan at Edinburgh International Book Festival Online this evening…
Today, the recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi joined editor and culture columnist of The Economist, Fiammetta Rocco at the Edinburgh International Book Festival online,…
In an event presented by the Baillie Gifford Children’s Programme at the Edinburgh International Book Festival online this afternoon, BBC Presenter and adventurer Helen Skelton and runner, writer and wannabe Astronaut Lily Dyu challenged their young audience to get adventurous on their own back doorstep…
“We don’t learn history from statues in our squares. You learn history from books, and we learn history from public discussion” says historian, and author of The Five, Hallie Rubenhold in conversation with Sheena McDonald at her Edinburgh International Book Festival Online event today…
“Memory is who we are. When we tell stories about ourselves it isn’t about memory. Memories are stories, they are not documentaries.” Linn Ullman, the daughter of Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman and Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullman discussed Unquiet, her heavily autobiographical novel with Lee Randall…
Double Booker Prize winning author, Hilary Mantel, today joined the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins in a conversation about The Mirror and the Light, the third in her Cromwell trilogy, which is longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, as part of the 2020 Edinburgh International Book Festival online…
“Stories are never just stories… stories can change who we are as a species… we can become our stories…. So changing the world often starts with telling a different story.” Dutch historian Rutger Bregman set out the fascinating argument for adopting a positive view of the human race today at the Edinburgh International Book Festival…
In a conversation ranging from the recent toppling of the statue of slaver Edward Colston in Bristol via systemic racism within science to what it means to be British, journalist Anita Sethi was joined by Britain’s first black female Professor of History Olivette Otele and science journalist Angela Saini in an online event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival today…
In an online event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this afternoon The Edwin Morgan Trust announced the winner of the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2020…
In the second year of a collaboration with The New York Times, the Book Festival presents flagship events discussing capitalism and climate change, women in politics and a special edition of The New York Times Book Review…
In August 2020 the Edinburgh International Book Festival asks authors and audiences to Keep the Conversation Going across the 17-day Festival, which has moved online for the first time in its history…
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