"We rallied round a flag that wasn't there," author Margaret Atwood said via videolink, of the Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature (EAIFL) decision not to launch a British book at the festival.
"An independent festival has to exercise its own right and judgement - it's not the same as banning," she said from Canada.
Atwood was speaking at the EAIFL, about the book The Gulf Between Us by Geraldine Bedell, which was not launched at the festival. Bedell caused a furore in the British and US press over the issue recently, claiming that the book had been 'banned' from the festival.
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