This year, the festival will host internationally-renowned authors such as Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Kumonyakaa, British Book Award-winner Hari Kunzru, Moroccan writer Abdelkader Benali, famed poet Beth Lisick and travel writer Peter Moore.

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British author Aminatta Forna's novel The Memory of Love has won best book at the Commonwealth Writers' Prize ceremony in Sydney.

BBC: Aminatta Forna wins Commonwealth Writers' honour