10th edition of Dhaka Lit Fest on January 5-8

Interestingly, two Nobel Prize-winning essayists will be available together 

10th edition of Dhaka Lit Fest on January 5-8

October 14, 2022 7:57 PM


In the wake of being dropped for three sequential years because of the Coronavirus pandemic, the tenth release of Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF), the greatest worldwide scholarly celebration in Bangladesh, is set to occur on January 5-8, 2023.


The occasion will be hung on the memorable grounds of the Bangla Foundation in Dhaka.


The three heads of Dhaka Lit Fest, Sadaf Saaz, Ahsan Akbar and Kazi Anis Ahmed, affirmed the matter in a public statement on Friday.


Dhaka Lit Fest has been a well known yearly occasion in the colder time of year schedule of Bangladesh. Around 30,000 individuals took part in the 10th Dhaka Lit Fest last held in 2019.


Sadaf Saaz, essayist, maker and co-head of the Dhaka Lit Fest, said: "The impending Dhaka Lit Fest will praise its 10 th version with a heavenly line-up of speakers, including two Nobel Prize winning-writers together in Dhaka interestingly. We will have four enchanted days sharing our affection for perusing and writing, examining boundless themes and thoughts according to alternate points of view, as well as film screenings, unrecorded music and exhibitions."


Ahsan Akbar, author, and co-head of the Dhaka Lit Fest, said: "For the beyond two years we have been striving to accumulate probably the best personalities from around the globe. With the different blend of speakers from home and abroad, we are eager to have a remarkable celebration of shining discussions. The hotly anticipated tenth release of DLF will be very special!"


Subsequent to being dropped for three back to back a very long time because of the Coronavirus pandemic, the tenth release of Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF), the greatest worldwide scholarly celebration in Bangladesh, is set to occur on January 5-8, 2023.


The occasion will be hung on the noteworthy grounds of the Bangla Foundation in Dhaka.


The three heads of Dhaka Lit Fest, Sadaf Saaz, Ahsan Akbar and Kazi Anis Ahmed, affirmed the matter in a public statement on Friday.


Dhaka Lit Fest has been a well known yearly occasion in the colder time of year schedule of Bangladesh. Around 30,000 individuals took part in the 10th Dhaka Lit Fest last held in 2019.


Sadaf Saaz, essayist, maker and co-head of the Dhaka Lit Fest, said: "The impending Dhaka Lit Fest will praise its 10 th release with a heavenly line-up of speakers, including two Nobel Prize winning-writers together in Dhaka interestingly. We will have four enchanted days sharing our adoration for perusing and writing, talking about boundless points and thoughts according to alternate points of view, as well as film screenings, unrecorded music and exhibitions."


Ahsan Akbar, author, and co-overseer of the Dhaka Lit Fest, said: "For the beyond two years we have been striving to assemble the absolute best personalities from around the globe. With the assorted blend of speakers from home and abroad, we are eager to have an extraordinary celebration of shining discussions. The hotly anticipated tenth version of DLF will be exceptionally extraordinary!"

In the interim, Kazi Anis Ahmed, essayist, and co-head of the Dhaka Lit Fest, said: "We are focused on our basic beliefs as could be, and with our tenth version we will keep on praising pluralism of the two characters and thoughts and champion the opportunity to communicate."


As well as a different blend of discussions and discoursed, there will be film screenings, craftsmanship displays, music, and social shows over the four-day time span.


The heads of DLF declared its most memorable rundown of 25 speakers out of more than 200 speakers expected to go to the 2023 release. The primary rundown incorporates Orhan Pamuk, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nuruddin Farah, Amitav Ghosh, Hanif Kureishi, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Pankaj Mishra, Tilda Swinton, Jon Lee Anderson, Onjali Rauf, Sarah Churchwell, Gitanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell, Esther Freud, Matthieu Aikins, Alexandra Pringle, Andrey Kurkov, Asma Khan, Lady Sarah Gilbert, Anisul Hoque, Mashrur Arefin, Jaya Ahsan, Kamal Naser Chowdhury, Zafar Iqbal and Marina Tabassum.


The tenth version will include two Nobel Prize-winning writers and universally acclaimed prize-winning speakers; champs of the Pulitzer, Worldwide Booker, Neustadt Global, PEN/Pinter, Prix Médicis, Foundation Grant, Windham-Campbell Prize, Albert Decoration, Waterstones Youngsters' Book Prize, Aga Khan Grant, et al, will take an interest at the 2023 release.


About Dhaka Lit Fest


The Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF), founded in 2011 with the goal of showcasing Dhaka and Bangladeshi literature and culture to the globe, is directed by Sadaf Saaz, Ahsan Akbar, and Kazi Anis Ahmed.


The festival's primary concentration is on literature, but it also embraces culture and ideas more generally, sparking debates on a variety of subjects, from poetry and translations to science and mathematics to philosophy and religion to fiction and literary non-fiction to history, politics, and society.


VS Naipaul, Adonis, Vikram Seth, Tariq Ali, Ahdaf Soueif, William Dalrymple, Nayantara Sahgal, Tilda Swinton, Shashi Tharoor, Shobha De, Nandita Das, Vijay Seshadri, and Mohammed Hanif were among the 400 participants from more than 50 nations that took part in DLF. the literary giants Syed Shamsul Huq, Hasan Azizul Huq, and Selina



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