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Thanks to All Our Sponsors and Supporters The Edinburgh International Book Festival is funded and supported by Title Sponsor of Schools and Children’s Media Partner Benefactors Programmes and the Main Theatre James and Morag Anderson Jane Attias Geoff and Mary Ball Richard and Catherine Burns Fred and Ann Johnston Alexander McCall Smith Fiona Reith Richard and Heather Sneller William Zachs and Martin Adam Anonymous Major Sponsors and Supporters Trusts American Patrons of the National Library and Galleries of Scotland The Binks Trust Booker Prize Foundation The John S Cohen Foundation The Craignish Trust Cruden Foundation Limited Dunard Fund The Educational Institute of Scotland Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust Matthew Hodder Charitable Trust The Morton Charitable Trust The Margaret Murdoch Charitable Trust The Robertson Trust Tay Charitable Trust Sponsors and Supporters Programme Supporters Australia Council For The Arts British Centre for Literary Translation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Canada Council for Arts Culture Ireland Danish Cultural Institute Dutch Foundation for Literature Edinburgh Unesco City of Literature Embassy of Sweden Goethe Institute The Icelandic Literature Fund Institut Français d’Ecosse Instituto Cervantes Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre NORLA (Norwegian Literature Abroad) Polish Cultural Institute With thanks Pro Helvetia The Edinburgh International Book Festival is sited in Charlotte Square Gardens by kind permission of the Charlotte Square Proprietors. Publishing Scotland We would also like to thank all the publishers who help to make the Festival possible. Saltire Society And all the other individuals who have donated to the Book Festival this year. Scottish Poetry Library Welcome Edinburgh International Book Festival 11 – 27 August 2012 Contents When he stood up to address the 1962 Edinburgh Writers’ Conference, 2 – 3 Key programme themes if we don’t Want our young People to History is a science, tear apart our coMmuniTies Then don’t let PsycHology keePs trying To vindicaTe huMan He turned his Head To see whaT he Had i found one day in school a boy Hugh MacDiarmidpeople in poWer tear remarked aPart The values that ‘it has been a long time since it was naTure. 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