Kerala Literature Festival to host 8 countries, over 400 speakers

Months after UNESCO declared Kozhikode in Kerala as the “City of Literature”, it will now host more than 400 orators from all over the world, and Turkey will be the invited country of honor in the next Festival of Literature in Kerala in January. ,

The grand festival of literature will be celebrated in the beaches of Kozhikode Arena from 11th January.

Organized by the Fundación DC Kizakemuri and copromoted by DC Books, the four-day festival will count with the participation of various writers, actors, thinkers and activists in debates on diverse topics, including science and technology, literature, art, etc. Style, Cinema, Culture and Environment.

The literary festival will include guests like Gurucharan Das, Perumal Murugan, Jerry Pinto, Preeti Shenoy, the actor Prakash Raj, the ex-gobernador of RBI Raghuram Rajan, the activist Piyush Pandey and the deputy and author of Congress Shashi Tharoor.

At an inauguration ceremony organized by Tharoor in the national capital on Tuesday, Ravi DC, principal facilitator of the Festival of Literature of Kerala, said that the festival was committed to “unveiling the remarkable literary talent of India on the world stage”. “, reuniting some of the world’s most extraordinary narrators”.

“The KLF has really flourished over the years, turning into one of the most important literary festivals in the region. This next edition promises to be the best yet. As we embark on this special journey, we cross borders and develop narratives that resonate with the essence of our shared human experience”, said the DC.

Other names who participated in the KLF include Mallika Sarabhai, P Sainath, Anita Nair, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, Vivek Shanbaug, VJ James, KR Meera, Sheila Tomy and Benjamin.

While countries such as the United Kingdom, Wales, Spain, Japan, the United States, Malaysia, Spain and France will participate in the “truly global celebration of literature and culture”, Turkey will celebrate and celebrate its 100 years of republic at the KLF. . Organizers said it will be represented through music, dance, food and various art forms.

The festival will also include performances by more than 25 “Ballerin Sufis Originals” from Konya, the Turkish city where the poet Rumi is buried.

Part of the festival will include concerts of Carnatic amateurs such as TM Krishna and Vikku Vinayakram, as well as concerts of Surbahar and sitar of Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee.