Vivek Shanbhag - Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF)

Sessions

Day 1
11:30 am
Right Barrack

Akashvani: There’s Something in the AIR

Abdul Rasheed, Vivek Shanbhag and Udayan Mitra

Day 1
1:45 pm
Open Cell

In Other Words: Taking Bhasha to the World

Arunava Sinha, Deepa Bhasthi, Vivek Shanbhag with Keshava Guha

Bio

Vivek Shanbhag writes in Kannada. He has published five short story collections, three novels and two plays. He was the founding editor of the pioneering literary journal Desha Kaala. His critically-acclaimed novel Ghachar Ghochar is widely translated. It was one of the New York Times critics’ top books of 2017, one of Vulture‘s 100 best books of the 21st century and finalist for the LA Times book prize in fiction. An engineer by training, Vivek is a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the Ashoka University and lives in Bangalore.