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This year’s festival sees hundreds of writers, thinkers and performers taking part in more than 250 events. Already feeling baffled by the choice? Here’s a selection of big names to start you off.
Shot to fame with Stalingrad, the battle that changed the course of World War Two.
Musician, high profile Dad and tireless campaigner against Third World debt.
Flamboyant feminist, devastating intellectual and challenging author.
Towering novelist and committed campaigner for human rights in South Africa.
Radical film director who changed hearts, minds and the law in the 1960s with Cathy Come Home.
Award-winning lion of British literature, his latest successful novel is Atonement.
Turkish writer who won international acclaim with My Name is Red, set in 16th century Istanbul.
Prodigy whose first novel, White Teeth, won her a prodigious advance and who has gone on to fulfil expectations.
One of America's greatest writers, author of the compelling Rabbit novels.
Playwright who rocked the literary establishment with hard-hitting plays about ordinary people.
Stupendously successful author of vivid, realistic novels for children and young people.
Poet, performer, musician and campaigner whose Jamaican rhythms reach the hearts of his audience.
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