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London is proverbially one of the great literary cities, even if it hasn’t matched Edinburgh or Dublin with UNESCO City of Literature status yet. So it’s sad to see all that made it a truly unique world-historical capital being abandoned, and its urban fabric and skyline ruined, in the name of a futile bid for […]
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At the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2014, I spoke to Sarah Morrison, Communications Executive of the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust, about how Edinburgh pioneered the UNESCO Cities of Literature programme, and what this has done for the city itself.
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This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival – the annual literary jamboree for the first ever UNESCO City of Literature – has commenced preparations with the announcement of the 2014 official dates, August 9th-25th. Last year’s Festival, already featured in TeleRead, was “our most successful year ever,” the Festival site declares. As per its own introduction, [...]
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To help mark its status as the first UNESCO City of Literature during the International Book Festival, Edinburgh has put up an interactive Flash map of 53 of the city’s bookshops and released a free Edinburgh Bookshops Trail iPhone App—but on iPhone only. The app “shows you all Edinburgh bookshops on a map, with shop [...]
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With London’s Southbank Centre planning to recreate its Saison Poetry Library as a National Centre for Literature, and Edinburgh already established as a UNESCO City of Literature, England’s Norwich is now taking its turn to put forward its claim as a key literary center for the British Isles. The Writers’ Centre Norwich and the University of [...]
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