Hyderabad Literary Festival
| Hyderabad Literary Festival | |
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| Genre | Literary festival |
| Dates | 26-28 January, 2018 |
| Location(s) | Hyderabad, India |
| Years active | 2010 - present |
| Patrons | AP Tourism | Hyderabad Literary Trust |
| Website | |
| http://www.hydlitfest.org/ | |
Hyderabad Literary Festival or HLF is a literary festival held in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It is a 3-day annual event that celebrates creativity in all its forms. Every year has a guest nation, and an Indian language in focus.
The Festival has emerged as an important event in the cultural calendar of the country representing, as it does, the rich and cosmopolitan ethos of the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, as well as the vibrant culture of the modern Cyberabad. HLF is a Festival for All. Its programme includes conversations with authors, readings, discussion panels, workshops, book launches, cultural programmes, and events for college students and school children.
Hyderabad Literary Festival 2014 was organized by Hyderabad Literary Trust in association with the Department of Tourism State Government, and with the support of several academic, literary, cultural organizations and publishing houses.
The festival started in 2010 and was held at the historic, Taramati Baradari. Muse India, the leading literary web-journal of the country, and Osmania University Centre for International Programmes (OUCIP), the international face of Osmania University (OU) had jointly organized HLF 2010. Held from December 10 to 12, 2010, Hyderabad played host to nearly 100 writers from across India, writing in various Indian languages and English. Never before had the Twin Cities seen an assemblage of such a large and diverse group of writers at a single event, reading from their work and sharing their insights into the creative process.
Key among them were, Padma Bhushan Prof Shiv K. Kumar, the Doyen among Indian English Poets, Prof Udaya Narayana Singh, Pro-VC, Viswa-Bharati, Santiniketan, Prof K. Satchidanandan, Former Secretary, Sahitya Akademi and eminent Malayalam Poet, Ms Mamang Dai, former Civil Servant and noted Writer from North-East India, Dr Shanta Acharya, London-based poet and scholar, earlier with the London Business School, Mr Hemant Divate, the noted Marathi poet and Editor, Abhidhanantar, Dr Dileep Jhaveri, the Eminent Gujarati poet, K Siva Reddy, the leading Telugu poet, Prof Laksmisree Banerjee, Vice Chancellor, Kolhan University, Jharkhand, Prof Hoshang Merchant, the well-known Hyderabad-based poet, Mr T P Rajeevan, Malayalam poet, editor and publisher and Dr Sukrita Paul Kumar, noted Urdu and Hindi scholar and poet.
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