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16th June 2023
03:33pm BST

Hanks has twice won the Oscar for Best Actor, winning the award in both 1994 and 1995 for his roles in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. (Credit: Getty Images)[/caption]
With the price of entry to this evening's event also including a copy of the book, attendees are set for a night to remember as the two-time Best Actor winner discusses his unusual journey from film to fiction.
The novel is Hanks' second toe-dipping into the genre of fiction, having had a collection of short stories published back in 2017, which were entitled 'Uncommon Type'.
Also in attendance at this weekend's festival will be the iconic figure of U2 frontman Bono, with the Irish musician due to speak about his 2021 memoir 'Surrender' alongside Irish Times writer and author Fintan O'Toole.
Other notable speakers over the course of the festival include Bono's U2 bandmate The Edge, comedian Ruby Wax and physicist/ television presenter Brian Cox.
The festival, which runs annually and was created by economist David McWilliams and Sian Smyth, aims to bring together thinkers from the worlds of literature, history, politics, journalism, comedy and science.
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