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Hyderabad Literary Festival From 16 to 18 January
Publish Date:Jan 12, 2012
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The second edition of Hyderabad Literary Festival will be held at Taramati Baradari Cultural Complex in Golconda Fort from 16 to 18 January this year, organisers of the festival informed at a press conference on Wednesday. The literary festival is being organized by the e-journal Muse India in association with APTourism and APTDC. The literary extravaganza will have more than 80 Indian authors representing English as well as other regional languages. Conversations with writers, reading sessions, panel discussions, and dialogues between authors will be part of the event.
The festival will also include a workshop in creative writing for school children, and competitions in short film-making, street plays, photography and fusion music for college students, informed T.Vijay Kumar, Director of the OU Centre for International Programmes which is one of the partners for the festival. There is no entry fee for the festival. The list of literary persons to attend the festival includes Gulzar, Pavan K.Varma, Mark Tully, Meena Alexander, Rahul Pandita, G.Haragopal, Hemang Desai, Amish Tripathi, Jaishree Misra, Vallabh Vidyanagar and Indu Sundareesan among others.
The list of literary persons to attend the festival includes Gulzar, Pavan K.Varma, Mark Tully, Meena Alexander, Rahul Pandita, G.Haragopal, Hemang Desai, Amish Tripathi, Jaishree Misra, Vallabh Vidyanagar, and Indu Sundareesan among others.
From Hyderabad, the writers to participate include Narendra Luther, Bilkeez Latif, Aminuddin Khan, N.Gopi, Abburi Chayadevi, C.Mrinalini, Jeelani Bano, Saleem, Narendra Rai, Rishabha Deo Sharma, Khalid Syed, Ashraf Rafi, Mushaf Iqbal Tausifi, and Tasneem Johar. Special focus will be on Telugu, Hindi, Urdu, German and French writings.
There is no entry fee for the festival and all sessions will be open to all.
However, certain privileges will be accorded to paid delegates, Prof.Vijay Kumar informed. Two national-level literary awards, the Young Writer Award and Translator Award, will be given away by Muse India as part of the festival, informed G.S.P. Rao, managing editor of the journal. A fusion music concert by Triotonos, a jazz group from Germany, will entertain participants on the first day, while cultural performances by eminent artistes such as Ananda Shankar Jayant and Vidya Rao will follow the next day. For more information, one may visit the website www.hyderabadliteraryfestival.com.
http://www.teluguone.com/news/content/hyderabad-literary-festival-20-10904.html
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