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The ninth variation of the Kerala Literature Festival (KLF), which opens astatine the Kozhikode Beach connected Thursday, would beryllium the biggest, according to its main facilitator Ravi Deecee. “We volition person much salient guests from astir the world, and determination volition beryllium much sessions too,” helium said astatine a media briefing. “American Astronaut Sunita Williams and Nobel Prize-winning writer Abdulrazak Gurnah are among this year’s biggest attractions.”
Mr. Ravi said the festival had been increasing each year. “This year, we are blessed that we could get Germany arsenic the impermanent country, and determination would beryllium a German delegation. There would besides beryllium German taste events,” helium added.
Michel Heinst, manager of Goethe-Institut, Bengaluru, said the German beingness would beryllium important astatine the festival. “Germany and Kerala person a beardown connection. The publication to the Malayalam connection by Hermann Gundert is remarkable,” helium said.
Among the salient names to beryllium featured astatine this year’s KLF are Kiran Desai, Pico Iyer, Jimmy Wales, and Ben Johnson.
The festival volition reason connected January 25.
