[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”108415″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]It is 70 years since George Orwell published 1984. So how do our political and personal landscapes today compare to Orwell’s dystopia? And can the book shed light on today’s data-driven security and surveillance society?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Panel” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”108447″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry of Truth, an acclaimed new biography of 1984[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”108446″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Award-winning foreign affairs writer David Pratt[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”104939″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Julia Farrington of Index on Censorship[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”108445″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Chaired by Magnus Linklater[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]This is a Banned Books Week event in partnership with the British Library, English PEN, Free Word, Hachette UK, Index on Censorship, Islington Council’s Library and Heritage Service, Libraries Connected and The Publisher’s Association.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
When: 28 September 12-2pm
Where: Festival Marquee, 11 N Main St, Wigtown, Newton Stewart DG8 9HN
Tickets: Standard ticket £8 via Wigtown Book Festival
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Banned Books Week UK is a nationwide campaign for radical readers and rebellious readers of all ages celebrate the freedom to read. Between 22 – 28 September 2019, bookshops, libraries, schools, literary festivals and publishers will be hosting events and making noise about some of the most sordid, subversive, sensational and taboo-busting books around.
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