Liz Calder, the intellectual mentor behind the creation of Flip, had no doubts: “This was the most interesting year so far, with the most varied program”

Flip regret to announce that Lou Reed has cancelled his participation. the songwriter’s office cited “personal reasons”. The new composition of the roundtable event will be announced forthwith

As every year, the Paraty Casa da Cultura offers an alternative program within the wider Flip structure

Tabucchi will be replaced by Ferreira Gullar

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The Peru-born Chilean Isabel Allende will launch her new book at Flip – Island Beneath the Sea

The diplomat Alberto da Costa e Silva, the sociologist Angela Alonso and the writer Reinaldo Moraes have all confirmed their presence at the 8th edition of the International Literary Festival of Paraty

It all began when Benjamin Moser, still a college student, took a course on Brazilian literature on which he read The Hour of the Star

The couple formed by the Brazilian Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke and the Englishman Peter Burke has confirmed participation at Flip

The latest guests to come on-board are the North-Americans William Kennedy and Gilbert Shelton

Screened correspondence, nude photos, an award-winning book at the age of 17 and diaries, all of this is part of the universe of the Cuban Wendy Guerra

A symbol of 60s counterculture, Robert Crumb is the tenth author to confirm his presence at this year’s International Literary Festival of Paraty

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Robert Darnton is a Harvard-educated historian with a doctorate in history from Oxford University

Lionel Shriver was born Margaret Ann Shriver in 1957, in North Carolina, USA, and changed her name at the age of 15

he Iranian writer Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will be at this year’s Festival

Another name is confirmed for this year’s Literary Festival

English author William Boyd and the Israeli Abraham B. Yehoshua have confirmed their presence at Flip 2010

Salman Rushdie is the second name confirmed for Flip 2010

Irish writer Colum McCann is the first writer to confirm his presence at Flip 2010