In the 10th Nepal Literature Festival, the audience will be able to interview the characters and sessions according to their interests. From 21st to 26th December, the banks of Pokhara Fewatal will be heated with ideas, discussions and brainstorming on every subject from art, literature, music, country, politics and society.
The festival of words, which will run until the 11th of January, will have more than 50 sessions, musical evenings and more interesting activities.
According to organizer Bookworm Foundation Director Niraj Bhari, former Prime Minister and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli, Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa and Vishwaprakash Sharma and Janamat Party President CK Raut will participate in the festival.
Sri Lankan author Sehan Karunathilaka, the Booker Prize winner of 2022, writer and journalist Akshay Mukul, associate professor and writer Suketu Mehta, writer and filmmaker Sawa Karim Khan, writer Shreyana Bhattacharya and other internationally famous people will also participate in the festival.
Governor Mahaprasad Adhikari, Dr. Bhagwan Koirala, Mastersafe Santosh Sah, Journalist and Writer Vijay Kumar, Writer Samrat Upadhyay, Writer Buddhisagar, Suvin Bhattarai, Musician Ranjit Gajmer, Actress Swastima Khadka, Journalist Rama Singh, Singer Jhuma Limbu and others will have presentations and discussions.
On the eve of the festival, poet Navraj Parajuli and Ujjwal Sagar will perform. On the first day of the festival, the Gopalaya musical program will be held on the 7th in memory of Gopal Yonjan. The slogan of this festival is 'Shabdshakti Utsavko Ek Dekasa'.
Sujata Khatri, the co-director of the festival, said that this festival will be special in every way after the Corona devastation. Bharat Koirala and Keshavasaran Lamichhane, members of the organizing organization, said that it was a great privilege for Pokhareli to have not only domestic but also international writers and various famous people on the shores of Phewa.
Neeraj, the director of Nepal Literature Festival, says that in 2011, it arrived from the small courtyard of Gyan Mandala in Jhamsikhel to Barahighat in Pokhara, which is owned by Nepal Trust, as the tenth edition.
He says that the Nepal Literature Festival, which started with the original slogan of 'where words come alive', is not only promoting art and literature, but also raising the critical consciousness of the society.
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