Metropolis Report-
On Sunday at the Bangla Academy, the Dhaka Lit Fest, which lasted four days and featured a wide range of the best authors, filmmakers, singers, and artists worldwide, reaffirmed its dedication to promoting Bangladeshi literature, culture, and the arts.
The tenth edition of Bangladesh’s largest international literary festival drew thousands of authors, scholars, researchers, journalists, artists, and book enthusiasts from home and abroad.
Sessions on various subjects, movie showings, panel discussions, and musical performances were all part of the event.
The closing session featured speeches by Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, British publisher Alexandra Pringle, poet, and author Goutam Guha Roy, and professor Resa Lewiss.
The Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah spoke on the final day of the Dhaka Literary Festival about a variety of subjects, including his upbringing, education, and writing.
The session on “Desertion” was given by Alexandra Pringle, the editor of numerous of his books.
Gurnah claimed that as a child, he was not even given books to read. He read textbooks to satisfy his hunger for reading.
He began writing while still a student, but he didn’t know how to publish his work until much later.
Shehan Karunatilaka, a Sri Lankan author who won the 2022 Booker Prize, spoke with Kanishka Gupta, one of South Asia’s most productive literary agents, about his book, The Seven Moons of Maali Almedia, which won the prize.
