5 Nepali writers to join as speakers at the Kalinga Literary Festival in India, including legendary Nepali writer Tulasi Diwasa
New Delhi: Five Nepali writers to join as speakers at the Kalinga Literary Festival in India. Legendary Nepalese literary figure and folklore expert Tulasi Diwasa will join the festival as guest of Honour and speaker. Noted poet Dinesh Adhikari, noted poet, writer Ranjana Niraula, debutant author Sumit Sharma Sameer and theatre activist Raj Shah will join the festival as speakers.
Noted poet, writer Ranjana Niraula, debutant author Sumit Sharma Sameer will receive the prestigious KLF Book Awards on this occasion .
The annual iconic Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) is all set to run from 24th – 26th February in the temple city of Bhubaneswar at Swosti Premium Hotel. Marking its ninth year, the festival will showcase a powerhouse of writers, speakers, thinkers, and humanitarians from all walks of life. The literary extravaganza will see a spectacular range of language diversity in the programme, represented by 10 countries and over 25 languages.
For its 2023 edition, the festival will host over 500 speakers from across a vast array of nationalities, as well as recipients of major awards such as the Nobel, the Booker, International Booker, the Sahitya Akademi and many more. It will feature a range of themes including the ongoing climate justice debate under the urgency of borrowed time theme; the great women writers and artists focusing on the female voice and identity, crime fiction, memoir, translation, poetry, economics, tech morality and Artificial Intelligence, the global crisis, cutting-edge science, India and the World, art and photography, health and medicine, amongst others.
Every year, the festival brings together a diverse mix of the world’s greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. The festival has hosted nearly 2500 speakers & performers and welcomed booklovers from across the world since its inception in 2013. The Kalinga Literary Festival is back with its 9th edition to invigorate, educate, provoke, and entertain as well. Celebrities from the worlds of literature, cinema, media and politics will assemble in the temple city of Odisha to deliberate on the theme of “India and the World”, at the Kalinga Literature Festival in Bhubaneswar, February 24-26, 2023. Acclaimed writers from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Japan, UK, Italy, South Africa, Austria will join the festival as speakers. Over 100 artists will join Kalinga Art Festival.
Kalinga Literary Festival is well known for its socially relevant themes and in a way compels all ‘creative’ people to think and articulate ‘the contemporary’. Like its past editions the KLF this year also has a hard-hitting theme for writers, poets and artists to ponder on. This year Central theme of the Kalinga Literary Festival is Central Theme: “India and the World”