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"Now in its 46th year, the Edinburgh International Book Festival returns for
two weeks this August, bringing together authors and literary fans from across
the globe. We spoke to the festival’s CEO Jenny Niven about the issues this
year’s theme, ‘Repair’, aims to shed light on.
The theme this year is Repair, ‘which seeks to explore the many things around
us which feel broken, and how we might seek to fix them’. What inspired the
choice of this theme for the 2025 festival, and how do you see it resonating
with today’s audiences?
We believe that dialogue and discussion are a positive and hopeful thing in and
of themselves. It can feel at the moment like there is just an onslaught of
difficult news and irresolvable conflict.
But amongst all of that there are also brilliant thinkers and great ideas in
the world about how we can move forward, and how we might be able to do things
differently. So our programme aims to showcase those, some of the terrific
books that help convey those ideas, and also to remind people that getting
offline and being face-to-face with other people – even ones you don’t always
agree with – can be a fun, uplifting, and even cathartic thing to do."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
