Russian-American author and journalist Masha Gessen discussed power, President Trump and their book Surviving Autocracy with human rights QC Philippe Sands at the Book Festival Online this afternoon…
A formidable line-up of artists took to the Book Festival's digital stage for an impassioned conversation about the value of working class voices and representation in the arts…
In a conversation which covered her time from a war correspondent in Bosnia to her roles as Human Rights Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power spoke this evening to BBC special correspondent and Chair of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Allan Little in the Frederick Hood Memorial Lecture…
“It’s good for translators to be public because they’re sort of forgotten” Ann Goldstein, translator of the internationally successful novels by Elena Ferrante, said in conversation with Lennie Goodings at Edinburgh International Book Festival Online. She went on to say that huge amounts of text will be quotes “as if the author wrote that, but they didn’t, the translator did”…
One of Palestine’s most accomplished and internationally best-selling novelists, Susan Abulhawa, discussed her new novel Against The Loveless World with the prize-winning Egyptian novelist and political commentator Ahdaf Soueif at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online this afternoon…
Following the announcement of The Discomfort of Evening as the winner of the 2020 International Booker Prize this afternoon, winning author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translator Michele Hutchison, along with their interpreter Johanna McCalmont, joined Chair of the Judges Ted Hodgkinson in their first public interview at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online this evening…
Helen Macdonald, award winning author of H is for Hawk, introduced her new collection of essays Vesper Flights at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online, in a reflective hour of conversation with Charlotte Higgins, Chief Culture writer for the Guardian…
Maryse Condé was joined by her husband and translator, Richard Philcox, in a conversation with Maya Jaggi at the Book Festival Online today, discussing her recent novel, The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana…
Iain MacRitchie and Richard Thanki discussed the importance of being connected – especially now – in an event chaired by Marjorie Lofti Gill at the Book Festival Online this morning…
23 year old Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong called for the voices of Hong Kongers to be heard around the world in a live conversation at the Book Festival online this afternoon…
Bernardine Evaristo spoke to Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, at the Book Festival Online this evening about her ground-breaking novel Girl, Woman, Other…
Gordon Brown called for a message of hope in his conversation with Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President of the European Commission’s Green Deal this evening at the Edinburgh International Book Festival online…
“The past few months has us talking about race and gender in ways we haven’t before” said author Minna Salami in a conversation with Lola Olufemi chaired by Jade Bentil at the Edinburgh International Book Festival online this afternoon…
The winners of the James Tait Black Prizes were announced by broadcaster Sally Magnusson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online this afternoon. A memoir by poet George Szirtes whose mother was a survivor of the Holocaust and Lucy Ellman’s novel told entirely via the internal monologue of an Ohio mother of four have won the UK’s longest-running literary awards. Szirtes and Ellman join the illustrious list of authors who have won the James Tait Black Prizes, awarded annually by the University of…
The opening weekend of the Edinburgh International Book Festival online was always going to be a leap of faith – for authors, audiences and for the Book Festival’s own team…
“I wondered how Rachel from Rachel’s Holiday was getting on. I’ve started a sequel and I’m a good way into it” said Marian Keyes, to the delight of her fans and event chair Jenny Colgan at the Book Festival Online this evening…
Today, the recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi joined editor and culture columnist of The Economist, Fiammetta Rocco at the Edinburgh International Book Festival online…
In a Baillie Gifford Children’s Programme event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Online this afternoon, BBC presenter and adventurer Helen Skelton and runner, writer and wannabe astronaut Lily Dyu challenged their young audience to get adventurous on their own back doorstep…
“We don’t learn history from statues in our squares. You learn history from books, and we learn history from public discussion” said historian and author of The Five, Hallie Rubenhold in conversation with Sheena McDonald at her Edinburgh International Book Festival Online event today…
“Memory is who we are. When we tell stories about ourselves it isn’t about memory. Memories are stories, they are not documentaries.” Linn Ullman, daughter of Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman and Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullman, discussed Unquiet, her heavily autobiographical novel with Lee Randall at the Book Festival today…
The author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light spoke about her groundbreaking historical novel trilogy, and what life after Thomas Cromwell might look like…
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman set out the fascinating argument for adopting a positive view of the human race today at the Edinburgh International Book Festival…
The Edwin Morgan Trust has announced Alycia Pirmohamed as the winner of the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2020 in a special online Book Festival event…
The Bookshop offers titles from every author in the 2020 programme and showcases a range of books from Scottish publishers…
Celebrating the 2024 Book Festival 
