Fernanda Melchor: Think Twice
While Fernanda Melchor was completing her International Booker Prize shortlisted Hurricane Season, she came across the story of a town whose residents were removed from their land so that a luxury gated community could be built. The idea that violence could be born in the heart of ‘paradise’ underpins her latest novel, the furious and beguiling Paradais, translated by Sophie Hughes. Join Melchor as she exposes the violence lurking underneath society, in conversation with Chris Power.
Book Festival News
2024 Programme To Be Revealed 4 JuneFriday 16 February
Watch more
Lisa Croft, Willy Maley, Jennie Renton & Tam Watters: ¡No Pasaran!
Ross Benjamin & Daniel Kehlmann: When History Prefigures Our Own Times
Raja Shehadeh: To Absent Fathers
Mary Robinson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor: Across the Indian Ocean
2023 International Booker Prize Winners: Georgi Gospodinov & Angela Rodel
Aravind Adiga (2017 event)
DeRay Mckesson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
James Naughtie: The USA, from Reagan to Trump
Colm Tóibín: Man Imagines Mann