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22:02, 12-Aug-2017
International book festival opens in Edinburgh
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The 2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival opened on Saturday, to encourage people to share ideas and envisage a better world.
It takes place every year in Charlotte Square in the center of Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh. The event this year runs from August 12 to August 28.
(File) A man reads a book at the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival, on August 13, 2016. /Xinhua Photo
(File) A man reads a book at the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival, on August 13, 2016. /Xinhua Photo
Speakers including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Paul Auster, Andrew O'Hagan and Ali Smith will attend the event. Over the next two weeks, conversations and lectures will be held featuring 1,000 writers including 50 debut novelists from more than 50 countries.
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. Biennial at first, the book festival became a yearly celebration in 1997.
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