1. History, timeline
     2019    2018    2017    2016  

2. Gallery

3. References

4. External links

The four-day festival include debates and discussions, cultural activities, cartoon and painting exhibitions, mini film fests and cookery show.

History, timeline

2019

The fourth edition of the festival is scheduled to be held from 10–13 January 2019, at Kozhikode Beach.^[2]

2018

The third edition of the festival was held from 8–11 February 2018, at Kozhikode Beach. KLF 2018 was inaugurated by Arundhati Roy, MT Vasudevan Nair and Prakash Raj. The event was ably supported by the Kerala State Government with the Kerala Tourism Department playing an active role in supporting and promoting the event. An event on such a great scale was made possible by the immense support received from the Kozhikode Municipal Corporation and the district administration. The Kochi Muziris Biennale was also an integral part of the festival. 2018 saw KLF host over 400 literary luminaries from both international and national arena. Guest nation for the year was Ireland.

Romila Thapar, Ashish Nandy, Sagarika Ghose, Rajdeep Sardesai, Noam Chomsky, Rishi Kapoor, Shani Prabhakar, Benyamin, are few of the names that graced the shores of KLF 2018.

2017

The second edition of Kerala Literature Festival held from 2–5 February 2017, at Kozhikode Beach.^[4][5]

Noted Malayalam short story writer and novelist Paul Zacharia inaugurated KLF 2017.^[6] Highlight of KLF 2017 was the interaction between Sadguru jaggi vasudev, Sashi Kumar and Manju Warrier.^[7] Cartoons of O. V. Vijayan were also exhibited in 2017 Kerala Literature Festival.^[8] Over 300 writers from across the world took part in KLF 2017.The writers from abroad include South African writer Ari Sitas, and British-Pakistani writer Qaisra Shahraz, Slovene writer Evald Flisar, translator and editor of numerous publications Alexandra Büchler of Literature Across Frontiers, Portuguese translator Bruno Viera Amaral and poet and literary curator Nia Davies from Wales, United Kingdom.The sessions held in four venues titled Ezhuthola, Aksharam, Thulika, and Vellithira.^[9][10]

The second edition of the festival introduced a programme for students, 'Student KLF', promoting knowledge, literature, art and culture. The event included open discussions with authors on contemporary topics.^[11]

The Kerala Literary Festival was conceived as a platform mainly meant for Malayalam writers, social worker and artists to meet, discuss and debate on various topics.

2016

The festival's 2016 Organizing Committee was headed by Mayor of Kozhikode V. K. C. Mammed Koya as chairman, Ravi Deecee as Chief Coordinator, and A K Abdul Hakeem as General Convenor.

At KLF 2016 writers and speakers included M T Vasudevan Nair, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Anand, Taslima Nasrin, Ashok Vajpeyi, Khadija Mumtaz, Indu Menon, M. Mukundan, Sarah Joseph, Githa Hariharan, Meena Kandasamy, Pratibha Ray, TD Ramakrishnan, T Padmanabhan, Subhash Chandran, Leena Manimekalai and Girish Kasaravalli, to name a few.^[12]

In 2016 writer M. Mukundan said at the festival that writer's freedom was very limited in our society. "I was accused of misleading the younger generation through my novels. Is it because of my novels that Kerala is the biggest consumer of liquor now?^[13]

Gallery

References

External links

• Kerala Literature Festival

• Sara Tetro
• Sarath
• Sarath Ambepitiya
• Sarath Amunugama
• Sarath Amunugama (politician)
• Sarath Babu
• Sarathchandra Rajakaruna
• Sarath (composer)
• Sarath Gunapala
• Sarath Gunawardena
• Sarathi
• Sarath Jayawardene
• Sarath Kotagama
• Sarath kotagama
• Sarathkumar
• Sarath Kumar
• Sarath Kumara Gunaratna
• Sarath Kumara Gunaratne
• Sarathkumar Ramanathan
• Sarathkumar Ramanathan filmography
• Sarath Moonesinghe
• Sarath Munasinghe
• Sarath Ranawaka
• Sarath Vidhan Sabha constituency
• Sarath (Vidhan Sabha constituency)