FESTIVAL BOOKS EDINBURGH WORLD WRITERS CONFERENCE

WORLD PARTY In 1962, the Edinburgh World Writers Conference caused a literary stir. Fifty years on, the Book Festival marks the occasion with a new set of talks and speakers. We talk to some of this year’s delegates and festival director Nick Barley tells us why it’s the centrepiece of this year’s EIBF

26 THE LIST 16–23 Aug 2012