The seventh edition of the Kerala Literature Festival opens on Thursday, 12th January. The festival will be held at its regular venue on the Kozhikode beach.
This edition of the KLF will feature about 500 speakers and will have 300-odd sessions.
The speakers include prominent malayalam writers such as M. Mukundan, K. Satchidanandan, Zacharia, C.V. Balakrishnan, N.S. Madhavan, S. Hareesh, Benyamin, T.D. Ramakrishnan, K.R. Meera, V.J. James, Santhosh Aechikkanam and K. Ajitha.
Other prominent speakers include Raghuram Rajan, Kailash Satyarthi, William Dalrymple, Piyush Pandey, Prahlad Kakkar, Shashi Tharoor, Anita Nair, Perumal Murugan, Abraham Verghese, Resul Pookutty, T.M. Krishna, T.P. Sreenivasan, Mallika Sarabhai, P. Sainath, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, Amish Tripathi, Alka Pande, Prakash Raj, Sheela, Shakeela, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Brinda Karat, and Palanivel Thiagarajan.
Other than discussions on books and authors, the sessions include social subjects, drama, etc.
he event is organised by prominent Malayalam publishers DC Books, based in Kottayam district of Kerala.
