Home | Edinburgh International Book Festival. Edinburgh International Book Festival. The Edinburgh International Book Festival is a book festival that takes place in the last three weeks of August every year in Charlotte Square in the centre of Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh. Billed as The largest festival of its kind in the world, the festival hosts a concentrated flurry of cultural and political talks and debates, along with its well-established children's events programme. Charlotte Square during the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2013 It coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as the other events that comprise the Edinburgh Festival.
History[edit] The first Book Festival took place in a tent in Edinburgh in 1983. Programme[edit] There are over 700 events for both adults and children in the three weeks that the festival runs. Running alongside the general programme is a Children's programme. Venue[edit] Fringe events[edit] See also[edit] Official website[edit] References[edit] International Book Festival. Find out what's on in Edinburgh & The Lothians all year round by using the events listings below. Although the festivals run all year round, the summer months - and August in particular - are when festival fever reaches its height. August festivals The Edinburgh International Festival, founded in 1947, is the official centrepiece of Edinburgh’s festivals.
Running for four weeks, this performing arts festival has world-class displays of theatre, dance and music. The Festival ends with a spectacular firework display at Edinburgh Castle. Why not play the Suggest My Fest app via the Festival Facebook page to help you choose what you'd like to see at the EIF? The Edinburgh Festival Fringe runs alongside the International Festival. The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is another August must-see.
Another August festival is the Edinburgh International Book Festival, staged in the elegant surroundings of the city centre's Charlotte Square. Film, science and storytelling East Lothian festivals. The Edinburgh International Book Festival. Courtesy Edinburgh International Book Festival There's a lot to recommend the quietly-successful Book Festival. It's the most compact of the multi-event festivals - based entirely at Charlotte Square, a stone's throw from Princes Street. It has a varied, interesting, family-friendly programme, and it's got some of the cheapest tickets around, as well. It may not be the reason you came to Edinburgh - but if you give it a chance, you could well find it filling a few slots in your Festival diary. And let's forget right now the beard-and-sandals image of the book festival devotee.
Most of the dozens of the daily events follow a familiar pattern. Nor is the Book Festival entirely divorced from the hedonistic side of Edinburgh in August. Edinburgh Book Fest (edbookfest) Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature: Home Page. PREVIEW – Edinburgh International Book Festival, 10-26 August. The launch of the Edinburgh International Book Festival in the Signet Library In 1983, the Edinburgh Book Festival first pitched its tents in Charlotte Square Gardens, featuring 120 authors. Now, the 30th Edinburgh International Book Festival will feature over 700 events, with authors from all across the globe in what is now the biggest literary festival in the world.
One of the festival’s many fascinating themes is 30 Years Back, 30 Years Forward, a strand which reflects on the changes in literature over that time, and asks the question as to what shape things may take in the decades to come. Very much in this forward-looking vein, the Festival will include the First Book Award, an audience-voted prize for a work of fiction debuting at the Festival.
Festival director Nick Barley announces this year's programme Gaiman also features in the Bailie Gifford Children’s Programme, which is much expanded this year and is full of free and ticketed events for young readers (and their families). Three Decades of Edinburgh International Book Festival | Books. Edinburgh International Book Festival is celebrating its 30 year anniversary and Jura Unbound is getting in on the action.
We spoke to the organisers of three events reflecting upon a specific decade and one that encompasses all three The 80s: Alan Bisset Who are you and what do you do? An 'Alan Bissett' performance can be unpredictable, and can involve anything from chat about superheroes to left-wing politics to Game of Thrones to a reading from one of my books to an audience sing-a-long to me pretending to be a spider. Why the 80s? Well, the 80s formed the entirety of my childhood, so it's fascinating for me to go back and examine them at some remove. What can we expect? I will be playing the world's angriest ever woman Andrea Dworkin. The 90s: Craig Taylor – Five Dials I'm the editor of Five Dials, which is now in its fifth year of production, and currently enjoys an average readership of 100,000, with about 15,000 email subscribers.
Why the 90s? The 00s: Reel Iraq – Ryan Van Winkle. Edinburgh International Book Festival (10–26 August 2013) 9–25 August 2014 Amid the frenetic activity of the other festivals, this one is an oasis of calm. Talking place beneath canvas in the genteel surrounds of Charlotte Square, the Book Festival is a celebration not only of the written word, but also of the big ideas that concern our times.
International in outlook and eclectic in range, it features major names from world literature, debut authors, pop scientists, stand-up comedians, comic book artists, poets and leading thinkers, and is one of few festivals that can boast Franz Ferdinand, Al Gore and J. K. Rowling amongst its previous participants. With hundreds of readings and debates now on offer, it has become the largest festival of its kind – a far cry from its humble beginnings in 1983, with just one tent and 30 chances to ‘Meet the Author.’
The great success of the accompanying Children’s programme too insures a new generation will pick up the literary bug to carry this festival forward. Official website: www.edbookfest.co.uk. Edinburgh International Book Festival. About Us | Edinburgh International Book Festival. Are you sure you want to logout? If you logout you will lose your basket. Yes, I want to logout. Ah ok, leave me in then! Edinburgh International Book Festival: 9 - 25 August 2014 Search the 2013 Programme In association with The Guardian Programme announced Wed 11 June. Home > About Us Follow Us Festival calendar August 2013 About Us The Edinburgh International Book Festival began in 1983 and is now a key event in the August Festival season, celebrated annually in Scotland's capital city.
Throughout its history, the Book Festival has grown rapidly in size and scope to become the largest and most dynamic festival of its kind in the world. An important feature of the Book Festival's programme is a high profile debates and discussions series. Running alongside the general programme is the highly regarded Children's Programme, which has grown to become a leading showcase for children's writers and illustrators. The Book Festival is proud to run its own independent bookselling operation. Edinburgh International Book Festival - Edinburgh Festival Guide.
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2013 – programme now available. At a ceremony in the very august surroundings of the Signet Library accompanied by champagne and pastries the Edinburgh International Book Festival launched its programme for 2013. In a packed programme of over 700 events, the Book Festival will welcome authors from each edition of the Granta Best of Young British Novelists List which is compiled every 10 years. Salman Rushdie, featured on the 1983 list, looks back on his career over the last 30 years while Evie Wyld discusses her inclusion on the latest 2013 list.
Margaret Atwood, Gavin Esler, Kate Mosse and Neil Gaiman have been invited to select and chair a series of events on genre, the collapse of trust, women in the 21st century and the reshaping of modern fantasy respectively. With 42 debut novels, novellas and short story collections in the programme, the Book Festival’s First Book Award, sponsored by eBooks by Sainsbury’s, offers readers the chance to discover the stars of the future and to vote for their favourite. Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Edinburgh international book festival announces 2013 lineup. Last writes … Iain Banks, who died on 9 June, will be the subject of a special event at the Edinburgh international books festival. Photograph: Ray Charles Redman/EPA The life and works of the late Iain Banks will be celebrated by close friends including Ian Rankin and Val McDermid in a special event at this August's Edinburgh international book festival, for which the Guardian is media partner. "Scotland and the world were rocked by his death last weekend," said Nick Barley, the festival director. "We'd been planning a celebration anyway as we're marking our 30th birthday, and his first novel, The Wasp Factory, was out in 1984.
I spoke to him many times about what he'd like to do. He wanted to be there – sadly he can't be. " Instead, the event on the festival's closing Sunday will see Scottish authors including Rankin, McDermid and Ken MacLeod looking back over Banks's 29-year career. Over 200,000 visitors are expected to attend the festival, which runs from 10-26 August. The Edinburgh International Book Festival: Win tickets to one of 25 events | Extra. The Edinburgh International Book Festival plays host to more than 800 authors at 700+ events each year. Guest speakers include novelists, poets, scientists, Nobel and Booker prize-winners and many more besides,. The festival brings readers and writers together for entertainment, discussion and pure inspiration. This year, the Guardian is media partner to the festival and, to celebrate, we have 25 pairs of tickets to give away to the following events: •Kate Atkinson 10 August 11.30am (2 pairs) •Neil Gaiman 24 August 3.00pm (1 pair) •Posy Simmonds 24 August 4.30pm (2 pairs) •Salman Rushdie 10 August 3.00pm(1 pair) •Ian Rankin 21 August 8.00pm (1 pair) •Eoin Colfer 11 August 1.30pm (2 pairs) •Alan Rusbridger 22 August 3.00pm (1 pair) •Cerys Matthews 13 August 3.00pm (1 pair) •Caitlin Moran 25 August 6.30pm (2 pairs) •Colm Toibin 20 August 4.30pm (1 pair) •Malorie Blackman 24 August 10.30am (2 pairs) •Margaret Atwood 24 August 11.30am (2 pairs) •George Monbiot 11 August 3.00pm (1 pair)
Neil Gaiman to help Edinburgh International Book Festival celebrate comics and graphic novels. Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Kieron Gillen and Posy Simmonds are among the authors and artists taking part in Stripped, which will feature more than 40 events celebrating the growth of comics and graphic novels as a literary form. Events will explore the rich heritage of comics alongside the contemporary renaissance of graphic novels, taking in some of Scotland's many international success stories along the way. Talks, translations, drawing and reading workshops will run alongside the inaugural 9th Art Award for the world's finest English language graphic novel, an exhibition of comic art and a Mini Comic Fair, which showcases work from independent comic creators in Scotland.
The festival has also commissioned a new graphic novel, edited by Glasgow author Denise Mina, who will discuss her graphic treatment of Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The Stripped strand is supported by Scottish Government funds. Contextual targeting label: Kellan MacInnes Edinburgh International Book Festival 2013 » Kellan MacInnes. 2009 Edinburgh Book Festival online coverage.