In its twenty year history the Independent Bath Literature Festival has hosted Nobel and Booker Prize winners such as Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel and Howard Jacobson; leading political thinkers from Tony Benn and Tariq Ali to Anna Politkovskaya and Eric Hobsbawm, poets ranging from poets laureate Ted Hughes, Andrew Motion and Carol Ann Duffy to Wendy Cope and Simon Armitage, and humourists from Garrison Keillor and Terry Pratchett to Steve Bell.
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