Dec 03 2022 to Dec 04 2022 10 a.m.

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Price: Free Book/Buy

Where

The Lalit Ashok Bangalore

Kumarakrupa Rd, opposite Golf Club, High Grounds, Seshadripuram 560001

Event Description

Over 250 international, Indian and city authors and speakers, 4 programme forums, 2 children’s venues, stimulating conversations around a breadth of fiction and non-fiction topics, including history, biographies, translations, literature, religion, mythology, travel, art and music, feminism, food, cinema, publishing, technology and startups, cricket and football, language, media, economy and more.

Leading names at the Festival are 2022 Booker Prize winners Geetanjali Shree and Shehan Karunatilaka, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer, Jnanpith Awardee Damodar Mauzo, Sahitya Akademi winners Sarah Joseph and Ambai, actors Farhan Akhtar, Ramesh Aravind and Kabir Bedi, India national football team captain Sunil Chhetri, author of Sacred Games Vikram Chandra, former Indian international cricketer VVS Laxman, Shaolin leadership coach Bernhard Moestl, theatre artiste and Padma Shri awardee Manjamma Jogathi.

Bangalore Literature Festival, Bengaluru city’s flagship literary event, is all set for a spectacular eleventh edition on December 3rd and 4th at the breezy green lawns of Hotel LaLiT Ashok in Kumara Krupa High Grounds, Bengaluru.

The two-day event will feature a host of distinguished authors and speakers including historian William Dalrymple, acclaimed author and poet Jerry Pinto; acclaimed poet and novelist Jeet Thayil; researcher and journalist Akshaya Mukul; author-politician Arun Shourie; author/playwright Cyrus Mistry; screenwriter/children’s writer Honey Irani; author and constitutional lawyer J Sai Deepak; food writer Karen Anand; author and former Karnataka CM Veerappa Moily; Indian classical dancer and actress Mallika Sarabhai; Bengali writer and socio-political activist Manoranjan Byapari; popular historian Manu Pillai; Magsaysay Award winning journalist P Sainath; cricket writer Pradeep Magazine; musician/composer Rajkumar Bharathi; historian/biographer Ramachandra Guha; novelist/columnist Shobhaa De; Kannada novelist/playwright Vivek Shanbhag; researcher and environmental historian Mahesh Rangarajan; Himalayan traveler and historian Shekhar Pathak; art historian and curator Alka Pande; Tamil writer and literary critic B. Jeyamohan; novelist/columnist Manu Joseph; veteran journalist/media thinker Sashi Kumar; economic and political writer Gautam Chikermane; Indian television journalist/author Barkha Dutt; award-winning California poet/writer Allen C. Jones; Tamil poet/writer Sumathy; renowned author and philanthropist Sudha Murty; New York writer Tim Tomlinson; playwright/journalist Gowri Ramnarayan; doctor/activist Kafeel Khan; business and technology thought leader Kris Gopalakrishnan; India's foremost sex positive content creator Leeza Mangaldas; Bahubali producer Shobu Yarlagadda; Australian writer/editor/academic Sally Breen; writer/philanthropist Rohini Nilekani; acclaimed novelist Tabish Khair; Telugu writer-activist Gita Ramaswamy; gamaka artiste Gangamma Keshavamurthy and Christopher Kloeble from Germany Top names from the publishing world like Milee Ashwarya, David Davidar, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri, Udayan Mitra, VK Karthika, Mini Krishnan, Rahul Soni, Sayantan Ghosh, Preeti Gill, Kanishka Gupta, Ravi Deecee, Abhivyakti Singh, many of whom will be at LitMart – the pitch platform for aspiring authors. Top names from the world of films like Alankrita Shrivastava, Natesh Hegde, Kamal KM, who will be at ScreenLit – the pitch platform for screenwriters. Voices from Young India this year include Shrayana Bhattacharya, Hansda Sowvendra, Kubbra Sait, Meghna Pant, Anukrti, Upadhyay, Saikat Majumdar, Satyarth Nayak, Hindol Sengupta, Gayatri Gill, Aayush Puthran, Anirudh Kanisetti, Sohini Basak, Amy Singh, Moulya Swamy, Harini Nagendra, Musthafa KH, Shreedevi Kalasad Bhasha writers include KR Meera, Prathibha Nandakumar, Sangeetha Sreenivasan, Purushottam Billimale, CN Ramachandran, AJ Thomas, P Sivakami, Krishna Kolhar Kulkarni, Melwyn Rodrigues

The Bangalore Literature Festival remains among the most sought after and must-attend events for readers and writers from Bangalore, India and the world, with its lively discussions, interviews and literary sessions.

As in the past, this year too the Festival will see authors, thought leaders and unique performances. Highlights include sessions on travel in the new world and poetry, along with conversations on literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, feminism, crime, films, memoirs, poetry and a lot more. A few firsts that the Bangalore Literature Festival is proud to offer to our city in this edition of the Festival are:

1. Bringing to India leading names from the Asia-Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT), the region’s longest running and largest literary network

2. Launching ScreenLit, a platform for budding screenplay writers to pitch their stories to eminent filmmakers

3. LitMart returns, the platform where first-time writers can present their story pitch to a jury of publishers, editors and literary agents

4. Commemorating the life of Puneet Rajkumar through our venue names Gandhadagudi, Raajakumara and Yuvaratna

5. A festival bookshop that cater to all ages, tastes and lovers of any genre

6. A digital app for an enhanced audience experience at the venue Another highlight of 11th Edition of the Bangalore Literature Festival is the children’s programming ‘Children|Literature|Fun - (C|L|F)’ that includes two forums - an activity stage and a literary stage, on both days of the Festival and includes writing workshops, illustration, storytelling, creative games, music performances, all in a carnival atmosphere.

Some of the exciting elements of C|L|F this year are noted screenplay writer and actor Honey Irani talking about her new books written for children; award-winning author Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan with her 'It's Time to Rhyme'; well-loved children's authors including Bulbul Sharma, Bijal Vachcharajani, Arundhati Venkatesh and Adithi Rao; Lithuanian illustrator and story-teller duo Greta Alice and Kotrina Zyle with their Tiny Bugs Workshop; Vijayalakshmi Nagaraj creating magic with puppets; podcasting for kids with Piyush Agarwal; Dhwani Sabesh and Janaki Sabesh make their lovely Paati’s Rasam; Storigami with Shuba Das; The World of Musical Instruments with the Indian Music Experience and many many more wonderful and fun filled sessions. The Festival will also see an evening of Sufi singing and the poetry of Kabir and Bulleh Shah, with the inimitable Mukhtiyar Ali and his group. Interactive installations at the Festival this year, in partnership with BeFantastic, include between.today to celebrate the 75th year of Indian Independence by resurrecting the artistic language of the vintage through AI systems and Whale Tales an immersive audio visual narrative experience using real life whales as main characters.

The Festival will be anchored by the city’s much-loved radio personalities Melodee Austin and Sriram Sullia. The Bangalore Literature Festival and Atta Galatta, the city-based bookstore and hub for literary events, will also give out the Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize to honour the best of English fiction and non-fiction and Kannada writing.

There will also be a session in partnership with the The New India Foundation for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize for the best non-fiction book on modern/contemporary India.

Festival Director Shinie Antony says: “It is time to indulge our creative and intellectual sides. Our city is at its flamboyant best this time of the year - weather, fauna, vibe. This is an auspicious moment to seduce the city with words and song.” Brought to you by Friends of BLF - a group of eminent citizens of Bengaluru, who firmly believe that the city comes alive in its public spaces, in its arts and culture events that foster meaningful dialogue, enriching discussions and healthy debates; a group whose support has laid the foundation for an independent, community-funded literary event that the city can be proud of. Friends of BLF help create – with their generosity, energy and time – this world of words.

The Festival opens at 10 am on Dec 3 and Dec 4.

Entry is free, open to all and registration is recommended. For registration, complete schedule of events, participating author bios and other information check www.bangaloreliteraturefestival.org or follow blrlitfest on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

About Bangalore Literature Festival

The Bangalore Literature Festival celebrates the creative spirit of Bengaluru and commemorates the literary diversity it offers, bringing it in conversation with the best minds in the world of literature. The 2022 edition of the Bangalore Literature Festival is a two-day literary extravaganza that will bring together some of the biggest names in literature - within and outside India. The objective of the Bangalore Literature Festival is to put together a literary experience that brings writers – both established and aspiring, readers, publishers, students and young professionals and other stakeholders of the city together on a common platform and create a compelling space for engaging and thought-provoking discussions on literature and life. The Bangalore Literature Festival is a non-profit run by an eclectic pro-bono team led by Festival Founder and Director Shinie Antony with V. Ravichandar, Srikrishna Ramamoorthy, Subodh Sankar, Sanjana Kapur, Vikram Sridhar, Sanjana Kapur, Prateeti Punja Ballal, Shrabonti Bagchi, Sadhana Rao, Shruti Venkat and supported by advisors and volunteers.

More information at: www.bangaloreliteraturefestival.org

Venue: The Lalit Ashok, Bangalore

Schedule: Click here.