The 8^th edition of the Kolkata Literature Festival (KLF) was announced at the Kolkata International Book Fair, Central Park, Salt Lake. It will be held on the 11^th and 12^th March at the SBI Auditorium, within the Kolkata International Book Fair, Central Park, Salt Lake.

The Kolkata Literature Festival will be organized in a hybrid format, and all in-person sessions will be streamed live on the Kolkata Literature Festival Facebook page, YouTube channel, and the Kolkata Book Fair website.

Inaugurated by eminent Bengali writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, the festival’s inaugural address will be by filmmaker Suman Ghosh, a keynote address on thoughts, language, and books by scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and the annual Jit Paul Memorial Lecture by historian-author Rudrangshu Mukherjee.

Mamata Shankar, Suman Ghosh, and Sabyasachi Chakrabarty will celebrate master auteur Satyajit Ray on the occasion of his birth centenary in the inaugural session of KLF 2022 on Friday, at 3 pm.

A discourse on Bengali literature with poet-lyricist Srijato and bestselling authors, Pracheta Gupta, Himadri Kishore Dasgupta, and Debarati Mukhopadhyay will be organized.

Author-mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik will decode the interrelation of myth, mudras, and modern times with dancer Shinjini Kulkarni. Some of the best educators and children’s writers from across the country will examine the impact of the pandemic on reading and schooling.

Sugata Bose, Sumantra Bose, Jayanta Sengupta, Shuvaprasanna, R. Siva Kumar, Nirbed Ray, and Sasthipada Chattopadhyay are a few of the other renowned speakers and thought leaders who will be a part of this two-day literary festival.