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Group shot of Booker Prize Shortlist event authors Lucy Ellman, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Bernadine Evaristo & Chigozie Obioma

Full length portrait of musician Guy Garvey and poet Simon Armitage

Mona Eltahawy & Mariam Khan on stage at MLF 19

Full length portrait of author Jeanette Winterson

Image of writer Inua Ellams in teh Living Worlds exhibition gallery at Manchester Museum

It's Not About the Burqa writers waiting to go on stage

Celeste Ng at Manchester Central Library

Headshot of Miriam Wild with picture books

head shot of Elif Shafak

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Poets Lemn Sissay and Henry Normal

Photo of Inua Ellams on stage at Manchester Museum delivering his new commission for MLF

Image of poet Hafsah Aneela Bashir performing at the MLF 19 Launch Event

Picture of Gillian Slovo delivering the 2019 Castlefield Manchester Sermon.

Head and shoulders image of poet Isaiah Hull performing his work on stage

Photo collage of previous MLF guests

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