Antico Caffe San Marco, Trieste, 19 November
Bookcity Festival Milano, in conversation with Sergio Bestente, 17 November
Torino, Circolo dei lettori, in conversation with Dario Voltolini, 15 November
2020
Hay Festival in Rjeka, Croatia, 4-6 June 2020
Hay Festival, England, May 2020
Borders and Borderlines Conference, Laurence Durrell Library, Corfu, 20-24 May 2020
Boswell Festival, Dumfries House, Scotland, 8 May 2020
University of Cambridge, Harvard, Visiting Writer, April 2020
Incroci di Civilta Festival, Venice, 2-4 April 2020
Aye Write, Glasgow, 21 March 2020
Words by the Water Festival, Lake District, England, 12 March 2020
Effractions, Paris, 28-29 February
Hay Festival, Abu Dhabi, 24-28 February
German-Bulgarian Cultural Association, Munich, 27 January
2019 and older
Crossing the Line: Writers on Brexit. English PEN event, London 31 October
Jihlava Film Festival and Inspiration Forum, 24-29 October, Czech Republic
Oklahoma Literature Festival, 14-17 October
Nairn Festival, Scotland, 12 September
The Big Book Festival, Warsaw, 23 June
The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Sozopol Seminars, Bulgaria, 12-17 June
Moniack Mhor with Malachy Tallach: a Sense of Place, 13-18 May
Traduki at Leipzig Book Fair, 21-22 March
Jaipur Literature Festival, January 2019
The Edinburgh Book Festival and Jalada Africa ‘Freedom Conversation’, Nairobi, 30 November 2018
Full Circle: Borders and the Future of Migration, Brussels, November 2018
Kreisky Forum, Vienna, 4 September 2018
Edinburgh Book Festival, 17 August 2018
FutureFest London, 6 July 2018
The Sydney Writers Festival, May 2018
The Auckland Readers and Writers Festival, May 2018
Festival of Ideas, Dundee, March 2018
Verden i Bergen Festival, Norway, February 2018
Words by the Water, Lake District, March 2017
The Global Soul: Imagining the Cosmopolitan, Georgetown USA, March 2017
Dulwich Festival, London, June 2017
York Festival of Ideas, June 2017
Glencree Peace Centre Conference, Ireland, June 2017
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Scottish Highlands, August 2017
Edinburgh Book Festival, August 2017
The Becket Festival, Northern Ireland, September 2017
Wigtown Festival, October 2017
Durham Festival, October 2017