{"id":45803,"date":"2025-08-05T15:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45803\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:16:14","slug":"wigtown-book-festival-nicola-sturgeon-and-justin-currie-in-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45803\/","title":{"rendered":"Wigtown Book Festival: Nicola Sturgeon and Justin Currie in line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers have also promised a strong focus on Scottish writing, with appearances by Scots language performance poet Len Pennie, and Damien Barr, the host of the BBC&#8217;s Big Scottish Book Club, among others. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winners of the Wigtown Poetry Prizes and the Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland will also be announced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Economist Prof Sir John Kay will deliver the James Mirrlees lecture, in honour of the Galloway-born Nobel-prize winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adrian Turpin, the festival&#8217;s outgoing creative director, said: &#8220;Wigtown gives audiences the chance to enjoy famous names, new writers, great storytelling, big ideas and colourful characters in intimate surroundings at the heart of Scotland&#8217;s National Book Town. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The festival prides itself on being friendly, laid-back, full of surprises and intensely curious.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organisers have also promised a strong focus on Scottish writing, with appearances by Scots language performance poet Len&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-45803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}