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    Nona Fernández: Imagination Meets Evil

    Saturday 13 August 12:15 - 13:15

    Nona Fernández: Imagination Meets Evil Book
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    One of a generation of Chilean writers who grew up under the brutal dictatorship of General Pinochet, Nona Fernández offers new perspectives on history. She appears at the Festival for the first time, discussing her novel The Twilight Zone –...
     

    NoViolet Bulawayo: Glory and the Goat

    Monday 15 August 20:15 - 21:15

    NoViolet Bulawayo: Glory and the Goat Book
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    Booker-Prize finalist NoViolet Bulawayo joins us to discuss the ruthlessness of absolute power and the hope that underpins resistance. In her razor-sharp Glory, a long-serving leader falls and a country implodes. Bearing witness to the chaos, a goat...
     

    Mieko Kawakami: Women’s Lives in Japan

    Tuesday 16 August 12:15 - 13:15

    Mieko Kawakami: Women’s Lives in Japan Book
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    Mieko Kawakami’s award-winning early novel, Breasts and Eggs, divided opinions: the conservative governor of Tokyo called it ‘unpleasant and intolerable’, while Irish novelist Naoise Dolan holds ‘Mieko Kawakami is a genius’. In today’s...
     

    Raja Shehadeh: To Absent Fathers

    Tuesday 16 August 13:00 - 14:00

    Raja Shehadeh: To Absent Fathers Book
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    In 1985, Raja Shehadeh’s father Aziz was murdered in a pre-meditated knife attack. The circumstances of the crime are the subject of his Strangers in the House. Today, through his new memoir, Shehadeh sheds a different light on the father-son...
     

    Close Read: Daniel Hahn on the International Booker Prize Winner

    Tuesday 16 August 13:00 - 14:30

    Close Read: Daniel Hahn on the International Booker Prize Winner Book
    Why not try? Workshop: Jon Gray & Rafaela Romaya on Creating Beautiful Covers Workshop: Jon Gray & Rafaela Romaya on Creating Beautiful Covers Sat 13 Aug 10:30 - 14:00
     

    Damon Galgut: South Africa’s Broken Promise

    Tuesday 16 August 19:00 - 20:00

    Damon Galgut: South Africa’s Broken Promise Book
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    In 2021, nearly 40 years after his first novel was published, Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize for The Promise. With typical humility, Galgut said that while he’s grateful for the win, it ‘creates an artificial popularity that will take a while to...
     

    Murray Pittock: Old Scotia's Grandeur Springs

    Wednesday 17 August 10:00 - 11:00

    Murray Pittock: Old Scotia's Grandeur Springs Book
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    Who better to chronicle Scotland’s role in international affairs than Murray Pittock, one of Scotland’s leading historians? He has authored a series of key texts on Scottish history and identity and brought his huge expertise to bear on a roster of...
     

    Helen Garner: The Worth of Paying Attention

    Wednesday 17 August 20:15 - 21:15

    Helen Garner: The Worth of Paying Attention Book
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    Helen Garner is one of Australia’s most exciting, inventive and prolific writers. For more than half a century, her writing has been celebrated for its unerring sharpness and empathy. How to End a Story, the third volume of her published diaries, is...
     

    Mariana Enríquez: Supernatural Terrors and Real-Life Monsters

    Thursday 18 August 18:15 - 19:15

    Mariana Enríquez: Supernatural Terrors and Real-Life Monsters Book
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    On the years of dictatorship in Argentina, Mariana Enríquez said ‘I did not distinguish between reality and fiction because reality was worse than any fiction I could imagine’. Her gothic stories add gravity to that statement. Now, she discusses...
     

    Alejandro Zambra: The Family of Poetry

    Friday 19 August 18:15 - 19:15

    Alejandro Zambra: The Family of Poetry Book
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    Like Ali Smith, Lydia Davis and José Saramago, Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra makes work that’s both thoughtful and profoundly insightful. His latest novel, Chilean Poet, is set in a country that boasts two Nobel Prize-winning poets: Pablo Neruda...