City of Literature

UNESCO

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Edinburgh

  • Edinburgh: Scott Monument
    In Ian Rankin on Edinburgh: A City of Stories

    …to be the world’s first City of Literature. But Edinburgh offers something more: a lively contemporary writing and publishing scene. The area of the city where I make my home is known locally as “writers’ block,” in the main because J.K. Rowling, Alexander McCall Smith, and I live within a…

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