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American novelist and short story writer, Andrew Sean Greer, will be in Kolkata in January to speak at the 10th Anniversary Edition of the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, which is scheduled to be held from 18-20 January 2019. Greer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018.
Bookworms in Kolkata would be keen on sharing an evening or two with the novelist. The Prize Board called Greer’s 2017 novel, Less, “A generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range, about growing older and the essential nature of love” while announcing the winner at Columbia University’s School of Journalism in April this year. This edition of the Apeejay festival is all set to empower the average argumentative Kolkatan with enough intellectual ammunition. Some of the other notable participants in this festival are historin Ramachandra Guha, writer and parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor, and actor-director couple Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah.
The literary event will be held at the iconic hub of heritage on Park Street, and the organizers have promised a diverse mix of speakers including writers, humanitarians, thinkers, and politicians. The first list of speakers announced also include author Upamanyu Chatterjee, historian Rajmohan Gandhi, journalist Ravish Kumar, feminist writer Ira Mukhoty, mythology expert DevduttPattanaik, nutrition and science expert RujutaDiwekar, Young Adult author Ravinder Singh, and novelist Shobhaa De.This year’s festival would also host the first edition of the Prabha Khaitan Woman’s Voice Award in association with Oxford Bookstore, to recognise fresh women’s writings from India and to announce the short list of The Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize to recognise book cover designers.
So looks like bookworms in Kolkata need to ensure that they are in Kolkata to bask in the sunshine of literary discussions.
