December 6 to 8, Bangalore International Centre
Participating writers:
Togara Muzanenhamo, I Allan Sealy, Michael Kelleher, Jayant Kaikini, Joy Goswami, Vivek Shanbhag, Sharmistha Mohanty and Zoë Wicomb.
This edition was partially supported by the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.
Discussions
BIC, 10 am - 1 pm. These discussions have an invited audience of writers, artists, thinkers and those who have a serious engagement with literature. We usually leave a little time for questions from the audience at the end.
Fri Dec.6
Beyond the Lyric: The properties, the depths, the persistence—and also the possible inadequacies—of the personal lyric in poetry, in a continued conversation with various other modes.
Joy Goswami, Togara Muzanenhamo, Allan Sealy, Michael Kelleher
Session 01: Beyond the Lyric
Anchor: Michael Kelleher
Sat Dec.7
Two voices: Zoe Wicombe and Togara Muzanenhamo
on the contexts and elements that formed and impacted their work.
Anchor: Souradeep Roy
Session 02: Two Voices: Wicombe and Muzanenhamo
Anchor: Souradeep Roy
Sun Dec.8
Narrative Fiction Now: The realist narrative seems to be the primary fictional form today, at least in the Anglophone world. What are the challenges of working in this form now? Has the form become somewhat automated? Does it need to be revitalized and renewed?
Jayant Kaikini, Vivek Shanbag, Zoe Wicombe, Allan Sealy
Anchor: Sharmistha Mohanty
Evening readings
BIC, 6:30 pm
Fri Dec. 6
Togara Muzanenhamo, I.Allan Sealy
Sat Dec. 7
Michael Kelleher, Jayant Kaikini, Joy Goswami
Sun Dec. 8
Vivek Shanbag, Sharmistha Mohanty, Zoe Wicomb