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13–29 August and Families in the Charlotte Square Gardens Rbs Children’S Programme See Pages 57-77 Thanks to All Our Sponsors and Supporters FRONT COVER INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF EVENTS FOR CHILDREN 13–29 AUGUST AND FAMILIES IN THE CHARLOTTE SQUARE GARDENS RBS CHILDREN’S WWW.EDBOOKFEST.CO.UK PROGRAMME SEE PAGES 57-77 THANKS TO ALL OUR SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS: THE EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL IS FUNDED BY BENEFACTORS JAMES AND MORAG ANDERSON JANE ATTIAS GEOFF AND MARY BALL RICHARD AND CATHERINE BURNS DOUGLAS AND MIDGE CONNELL FRED AND ANN JOHNSTON ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH WILLIAM ZACHS AND MARTIN ADAM TITLE SPONSOR OF SCHOOLS & CHILDREN’S MEDIA PARTNER ANONYMOUS PROGRAMMES AND THE MAIN THEATRE And all the other individuals who have donated to the Book Festival this year. We would also like to thank all the publishers who help to make the Festival possible each year. MAJOR SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS TRUSTS THE BINKS TRUST CRUDEN FOUNDATION LIMITED DUNARD FUND THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND THE ERNEST COOK TRUST PROGRAMME SUPPORTERS ARTS COUNCIL OF HÄME AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM THE CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS CULTURE IRELAND EMBASSY OF MEXICO EMBASSY OF SWEDEN GOETHE INSTITUTE HUNGARIAN CULTURAL CENTRE THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE FUND INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D’ECOSSE ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE LITERATURE ACROSS FRONTIERS MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE MONIACK MHOR WRITERS’ CENTRE NLPVF (THE FOUNDATION FOR THE PRODUCTION AND TRANSLATION OF DUTCH LITERATURE) THE NEHRU CENTRE NEW ZEALAND BOOK COUNCIL SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS NORWEGIAN CONSULATE GENERAL IN EDINBURGH POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE PRO HELVETIA PUBLISHING SCOTLAND ROMANIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE SALTIRE SOCIETY SCOTTISH PEN SCOTTISH POETRY LIBRARY SPANISH MINISTRY OF CULTURE The Edinburgh International Book Festival is sited in Charlotte Square Gardens by kind permission of the Charlotte Square Proprietors. EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 13–29 AUGUST 2011 REVOLUTION IN CONTENTS THE 21ST CENTURY Welcome to the 2011 Edinburgh International 2–3 Key themes for 2011 Book Festival, the biggest annual celebration of literature anywhere in the world. 4–5 Visitor info: access, venues, bookshops, cafés, opening times Just as important as the sheer size of the Festival is the quality 6–56 Festival events for adults of thinking that authors bring to their events in Charlotte Square Gardens. Our choice of authors is defined by what we believe are the 57–77 Festival events for children: babies to teens passions, desires and anxieties of today’s book-buying public, and we aim to provide a vivid reflection of the world today. 78 Edinburgh and the festivals, travel info, environment It is a world in a state of change: a world of WikiLeaks and Twitter; 79 Booking information a world on the fast track towards China becoming its largest economy; a world in which dictatorships are being overthrown by 80–81 Author index HELP DONATEUS TO BRING THE BEST popular uprisings. And, ten years after the 9/11 attacks, we are OF THE WORLD’S WRITERS only just beginning to appreciate that those acts still loom large in TO EDINBURGH EACH YEAR: the dramatic, revolutionary changes we are witnessing now. WWW.EDBOOKFEST.CO.UK/ WWW.EDBOOKFEST.CO.UK THE-FESTIVAL/DONATIONS If the Book Festival is a place for discussing major global issues, it is also somewhere to savour the pure life-enhancing escape – BOOK TICKETS offered by books. Who better to crown the celebrations than one – BROWSE THE FESTIVAL BY THEME OR SUBJECT of Scotland’s greatest living writers, Alasdair Gray, on the 30th – HEAR RECORDINGS OF PAST EVENTS anniversary of Lanark. We close the Festival with a full-length – READ EXCLUSIVE NEW WRITING COMMISSIONS performed reading of his latest work, Fleck, in what is perhaps – SIGN UP FOR FESTIVAL UPDATES the most ambitious event we’ve ever attempted: a world premiere – JOIN US ON TWITTER featuring a stellar cast including Liz Lochhead, Will Self, – BECOME A FAN ON FACEBOOK A L Kennedy, Ian Rankin and Alasdair Gray himself. Designed by Tangent Graphic, origami created by Ricefield Alongside, we present free Unbound evenings; the Newton First Book Award for debut fiction; an exciting new media partnership with the Guardian; and an array of new ideas from all over the NEWTON FIRST BOOK AWARD planet. All in all we have another memorable year in prospect, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to a vibrant Festival of DON’T –SEE THE EVENT ideas, taking place in Edinburgh, the world’s first UNESCO FORGET TO –EXPLORE THE BOOKS City of Literature. VOTE... –MEET THE WRITERS –CAST YOUR VOTE AT WWW.EDBOOKFEST.CO.UK This brochure has been printed on 100% recycled paper. After use, Nick Barley, Director please pass your copy on to a friend, return it to one of our brochure racks or recycle it. BOOK NOW WWW.EDBOOKFEST.CO.UK 0845 373 5888 1 SEE PAGE 79 FOR BOOKING DETAILS WELCOME TO CHI RBS PROGLDRE OUR PROGRAMME N’S EVENTSHUNDREDS FORRAMME CHI AND FAMI OF SE LDREN E P57-77LIES THEMES FOR 2011 LEGENDS OF MODERN LITERATURE 100 years ago, two great poets were born at opposite ends of Europe. Sorley MacLean became the greatest poet in the Gaelic language and Czeslaw Milosz perhaps the finest European poet of his time. We celebrate their work alongside events exploring the growing influence of German author W G Sebald; the letters of Samuel Beckett; the extraordinary life of J G Ballard and the enduring legacy of James Joyce. GUEST SELECTORS ALLAN LITTLE LIVING MEMORY Revolution in thE 21st century The internet may be changing the way we engage today, but could it also BBC Special Correspondent Allan Little selects be prompting a more fluid understanding of our recent history? Authors and chairs keynote events exploring revolutions – look back at events within living memory, from the end of the Second both political and technological. He embarks on World War to the rise of Thatcherism in the 1980s, and suggest new ways his journey in North Africa and the Middle East, of interpreting them. interviewing world-class authors whose fiction provides a compelling commentary on recent changes. From there, he takes us to revolutionary events elsewhere, to INDIA: GROWING PAINS provide unrivalled insights into our fast-changing planet. Make no mistake, as a producer, investor and consumer India is set to become one of the world’s 21st century heavyweights. Yet it remains AUDREY NIFFENEGGER a country of baffling extremes and despite the rampant growth, some Writing without boundaries 200 million Indians exist on less than $1 a day. We welcome a variety of The bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s authors to discuss literary responses to India in a state of rapid change. Wife originally set out to write her story as a graphic novel, until she realised how difficult it is to represent sudden time shifts with still images. EUROPE IN THE NEW ERA Having smashed through the glass walls of the 21 years ago in 1990, the Berlin Wall came down and Germany was literary genre system, Audrey Niffenegger is joined reunited. Margaret Thatcher urged Mikhail Gorbachev to stop the in this series by a stellar array of shape-shifters, reunification, fearing that it would bring about radical instability and a boundary crossers and genre-defying writers. huge shift in post-war European borders. In some ways she was right. As the new Europe comes of age, we welcome authors from Germany, JOAN BAKEWELL Poland, Hungary and Romania, whose writing has been profoundly Key ideas of thE 21st century influenced by the overturning of communism. What can modern Europe’s Few women journalists in Britain have achieved revolutionary events tell us about the situation in North Africa and the greater success, notoriety and widespread Middle East today? popularity than Joan Bakewell. She selects and chairs five events with renowned speakers, bringing her trademark lucidity to discussions about the city, landscape, creativity, numbers and doubt – themes which she believes will define the world in the 21st century. JULIA DONALDSON Rhyme and reason: hoW children learn The newly appointed Children’s Laureate, Julia Donaldson has built an international reputation for her books for younger readers. She has also written books for older children and is keenly interested in the process of learning to read. She explores her ideas in this ground-breaking series for children. 2 Browse the festival by subject OR theme ON ouR website www.edbookfest.co.uk DON’T FORGET TO VOTE... NEWTON FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011 Every debut novelist; every overseas writer whose words are published in English for the first time: nearly 50 authors are included in our First Book Award, which welcomes its new title sponsor, Newton Investment Management. Unlike other literary prizes, this one is selected by readers who champion new writing and who have been responsible for making superstars out of debut novelists. Ian Rankin’s first visit to the Book Festival was as a student journalist in 1983 – now it’s time to play your part in identifying a future literary legend by placing your vote: you can do so on our website www.edbookfest.co.uk. Media Partner GET REALLY STUCK IN... THE SPIEGELTENT ONE-DAY CREATIVE MASTERCLASSES UNBOUND STORYSHOP – DEBATES: ENDS WRITING CLASSES In a major new initiative that All over the globe, authors are CITY OF LITERATURE AND BEGINNINGS Check out the exciting new gives unprecedented access presenting their work in live EVENTS This year’s popular debate all-day writing classes on to the ideas of leading writers, formats that mix storytelling, Come and enjoy FREE readings series is split into two sections: weekend days of this year’s we have set up masterclasses song, performance and poetry. of micro-stories every day in the first week’s events look Festival. Pick up some vital which focus on a specific Our Unbound events are free the Spiegeltent from Sat 13 to at familiar ideas we’ve taken tricks of the trade by spending aspect of a particular writer’s and unticketed, taking place Mon 29 August at 4pm.
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