Beginning Thursday 18th February, the 9th edition off the Lahore Literary Festival will be presented online for four days and will showcase an extremely impressive lineup, including first time Pakistani authors and a litany of international names that will warm the depths of every book lover’s heart.
With months of planning, Razi Ahmed and his LLF programming and digital team have organised a gem of a virtual meet. The programme reads like a who’s who of the global literary world; Amin Maalouf, Yann Martel, Sebastian Faulks, Marina Wheeler, Fareed Zakaria, Wendy Doniger, Jhumpa Lahiri and many, many more. Check out the the full slate of the festival by clicking the link below:
No doubt, as February rolls around, avid LLF goers and Lahore denizens and guests reminisce about past years of the LLF — glorious mornings and afternoons spent at the Alhamra Arts Center on Lahore’s Mall Road. For the past nine years the LLF has featured discussions on fiction and nonfiction writing, music, painting, filmmaking, architecture and politics at the Alhamra in Lahore. This year in the post-Covid world, we are sure that the excitement and camaraderie we crave will be created online. You can watch four days of sessions, entirely free, all day on LLF’s exclusive all access YouTube channel and Facebook page. Click the links below for direct access to LLF’s first ever live, virtual event:
Join #LLF2021 online as we take you to meet so many wonderful authors and great minds. This year’s keynote address will be by Wendy Doniger, the author of several books on India, including The Hindus: An Alternative History, and Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago.
I will be interviewing two talented contemporary writers from the UK who have just had their first and latest books published in a session titled ‘Ties that bind us’ on Sunday 21 February from 4.45 to 5.40 pm. Introducing Nikesh Shukla’s work Brown Baby — A Memoir of Race, Family and Home which hit the bookshelves on 4th February and Huma Qureshi’s coming of age story How We Met: A Memoir of Love & Other Misadventures which was published in January of this year.
Stay tuned to #LLF2021 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for all the latest updates!
