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17 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 21 OCTOBER 2018 NEWS THE climate change activist and award-winning writer and journalist Naomi Klein will be the special guest for this year's Malta Book Festi- val on 7-11 November. Naomi Klein is a syndi- cated columnist and author of the international best- sellers No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate. Her books have been translated in over 30 languages. In 2017 she joined The Intercept as senior corre- spondent and is a contribu- tor at The Nation magazine as well as Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Na- tion Institute. Recent arti- cles have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, the New Yorker, Le Monde and The London Review of Books. She is a member of the board of directors for 350. org, a global grassroots movement to solve the cli- mate crisis, and is one of the forces behind Canada's Leap Manifesto, a blueprint for a rapid and justice-based transition off fossil fuels. The Leap has been endorsed by over 200 organisations and inspired similar initia- tives around the world. In November 2016 she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for "inspiring us to stand up locally, na- tionally and internationally to demand a new agenda for sharing the planet that respects human rights and equality." Her new book, No is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need was published in June and was an instant New York Times and international bestseller. This year's festival will be held on 7–11 November Naomi Klein, activist and award- winning journalist, to speak at Malta Book Festival A 36-year-old woman holidaying in Malta was discharged on the condition that she does not commit a crime for 12 months, after she pleaded guilty to having attacked a police officer at a hotel in St Julian's on Thursday night. Joanna Williams, who comes from Scot- land, was yesterday also fined €800 and or- dered not to approach the hotel through- out the remainder of her stay. Legal aid lawyer Noel Bartolo explained to Magistrate Gabriella Vella that the in- cident had occurred while his client was drunk after a night out. "She was drunk and she went to the hotel because her friends were there. She is re- ally sorry and meant no disrespect – she only attacked the police officer because she was drunk. "I therefore ask for the minimum sen- tence," Dr Bartolo said. The court imposed the fine and the con- ditional discharge in view of her guilty plea. Woman admits to attacking police officer while drunk Joanna Williams of Scotland, was fined €800 and handed a conditional discharge for assaulting the officer at a hotel in St Julian's