By A Correspondent
Trivandrum will soon host one of the largest and polyphonic cultural events in Kerala. Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters will bring together over 150 international and Indian writers with sessions devoted to divergent topics, trends, ideas and genres ranging from fiction, poetry, nonfiction, politics, environment, travel and cinema prominently. Some of the writers coming for Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters Include Oksana Zabuzho, Shashi Tharoor, William Dalrymple, BigaoChuol, Deepak Unnikrishnan, Felicia Yap, Kurkov, Mohammed Hanif, Andrei Kurkov, Balachandran Chullikad, Raghu Rai etc.
Festival Committee Chairman M P Veerendra Kumar said: “Mathrubhumi wishes to transform the Mathrubhumi festival of Letters in to a strong and powerful cultural platform in the world where serious discussions happen around literature. What envision this enterprise as a cultural rendezvous that will spark off new thoughts and writings.â€
The festival directors of MBIFL include writer-editor C P Surendran, Senior Journalist Sebin Iqbal and Mathrubhumi Executive Editor P I Rajeev.