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Autumn 2006
Edinburgh Bookcase  17 - 21 August 2006 

Edinburgh Castle

Francesca Beard and Graham Sutcliffe

Artist on the Royal Mile

 

The fourth showcase on contemporary literature - the Bookcase - took place as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival between 17 - 21 August 2006. This year the Bookcase attracted a record number of 67 participants nominated by British Council offices from places as diverse as Estonia, India, Iraq, Russia, Sudan, Vietnam and the USA.

The Bookcase is jointly organised by the Literature Department in London and British Council Scotland and is financially supported by the Scottish Arts Council. This year's Bookcase featured over 60 individual writers performing their work, including many names in fiction writing: such as Helen Dunmore, David Lodge, Alexander McCall Smith, and Ali Smith. Poets included: Ciaran Carson, Menna Elfyn, John Hegley, Robin Robertson and Hugo Williams.

 
Banipal Young Arab Writers' Tour  15 - 20 August 2006 

Signing books at Edinburgh

Authors in Newcastle

 

The Young Arab Writers’ Tour took place during August and was organised by Banipal magazine, the British Council and The Reading Agency. The writers Abed Ismael from Syria, Ala Hlehel from Palastine, Mansoura Ez-Eldin from Egypt and Joumana Haddad from Lebanon, gave performance readings to enthusiastic audiences in London, Derby, Chesterfield, Manchester, South Shields and with a tour finalé at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Throughout the tour the writers wrote weblogs about their experiences on our Literary Translation website.

 
Online Author Chats  August to October 2006 
Lauren Child © Hodder 

Over the last three months we have had a series of online chats with children's authors on our website www.encompassculture.com. Primary school teachers in Bilbao chatted with award-winning author and illustrator Lauren Child, teenagers from schools in the UK chatted with Carnegie Medal winner Mal Peet. A young reading group from Chennai in India had a lively chat with Kate Greenaway Medal-shortlisted author, Oliver Jeffers.

 
Creative Commons Debate  29 September 2006 
Ali Fisher, Christian Alhert, Bill Thompson and Caroline Michel  The publication of Ubounded Freedom: A guide to Creative Commons thinking for cultural organisations was marked by a debate in London about intellectual property. The debate was chaired by Bill Thompson, the technology critic and essayist, Christian Alhert from Creative Commons UK and Caroline Michel from the William Morris Agency UK.