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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

Edinburgh book festival to focus on hope with line-up including Kureishi and Sturgeon

Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi in 2017. He will appear online with a ‘very personal perspective on repair’. Photograph: Mimmo Frassineti/Agf/Shutterstock

The Edinburgh book festival is to champion the positive power of hope later this summer with events involving Hanif Kureishi, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish and an exiled Brazilian tribal leader.

The core theme for this year’s festival will be the “expansive” concept of repair, and offering solutions and optimism at a time of crisis and conflict, said Jenny Niven, the event’s director.

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