Edinburgh International Book Festival in Association with The Guardian

What? A festival of open horizons and energising ideas, at the heart of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature. 17 extraordinary days, 750 events, 800 authors, over 40 different countries represented. Bookworms, bibliophiles and internationally acclaimed authors will descend on Edinburgh in 2010.

When? 13 - 29 August 2011

Where? Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland AA Route Planner | multimap

Who? 2011. Packed into the 17 days of the Festival are almost 800 authors from over 40 countries around the world including the exiled Chinese Nobel Laureate, Gao Xingjian, who will discuss his life and recent work, the giant of American literary postmodernism, Robert Coover, and Sapphire, who will reveal her long-awaited follow-up to Push.

A wealth of Scottish writing talent including Ali Smith, Alan Warner, Candia McWilliam, Don Paterson, A L Kennedy (above), Louise Welsh, Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith.

Programme? Download 2011 programme

How much? Some events free. Other various prices.

Festival Website: www.edbookfest.co.uk

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Previous Festivals? Joyce Carol Oates, Lionel Shriver, and Amy Bloom, controversial cultural theorist David Shields and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz., James Robertson, Nicholas Parsons, Candia McWilliam, Fay Weldon, Lydia Davis and Jo Shapcott, DBC Pierre and Roy Hattersley , Michel Faber, Alasdair Gray, Ali Smith, A L Kennedy (left) , Alan Warner, Roddy Doyle, Amy Bloom and David Vann,Michael Morpurgo, Andy Stanton, David Almond and Margo Lanagan,Fatima Bhutto, Vidal Sassoon, Garth Nix, Sophia Jansson, Louis de Bernières, Amartya Sen, Nicholas Parsons, Douglas Hurd in conversation with Alex Salmond, Carol Ann Duffy and Garry Trudeau and a few more.........

Previous festivals: Margaret Atwood, Vince Cable, Antony Beevor, Garrison Keillor, Richard Dawkins, David Sedaris, Tom Devine, Jeremy Paxman, Neil Gaiman, Carol Ann Duffy, Bahaa Taher, Ma Jian, Zoya Phan, Henning Mankel, Mathias Malzieu, Andrey Kurkov, William Boyd, A L Kennedy, Irvine Welsh, John Burnside, Michael Mansfield, David PeacGordon Brown, Sean Connery, Bill Paterson, Eoin Colfer, David Lodge, Alastair Reid, Louis de Bernières, Tariq Ali, Gavin Esler, Steven Berkoff, Jonathan Dimbleby

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