Hyderabad Literary Festival: Jan 16 – 18, 2012

Event: Hyderabad Literary Festival – 2012

Description: 

Being organised in a big way 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, organisers of the festival informed at a press conference on Wednesday.

Conversations with writers, reading sessions, panel discussions, and dialogues between authors will be part of the event.

It 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.

Guests:

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.

Dates: Jan 16 – 18, 2012

Venue: Taramati Biradari, Hyderabad

Admission: FREE 

For more details: http://www.hyderabadliteraryfestival.com/

News courtesy: The Hindu.