Organisers of the Edinburgh International Book Festival today announced two new events in the August programme. Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina speaks to former Greek Finance minister and Book Festival guest selector Yanis Varoufakis and a new performance of Man Booker prize-winner JM Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K will be staged by Story Machine Productions.
Following a balaclava-clad performance in a Moscow cathedral in 2012, Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina and two of her collaborators were arrested and sentenced to two years in a prison in the Urals. On Saturday 18 August at 1.30pm she talks to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about her fight for free speech against the forces of Vladimir Putin’s establishment, her hunger strike protest while in prison, as well as the work she is now doing to help Russian prisoners at home.
In collaboration with the Man Booker Prize and Story Machine Productions, the Book Festival presents an event based upon Life & Times of Michael K, by JM Coetzee, on Wednesday 15 August at 8.30pm. Featuring film, performance and live reading, this powerful staging of a classic novel by one of the finest writers of our age, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 1983, asks whether we can live a life of dignity when lies, division and repression are all around us?
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