Ameena Hussein - Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF)

Sessions

Day 1
11:00 am
Bookstore Mezzanine

LitMart Pitches

Jury: Ameena Hussein, Arunava Sinha, Chaitanya Srivastava, Deepthi Talwar, Himanjali Sankar, Karthik Venkatesh, Kanishka Gupta, Meenakshi Singh, Sayantan Ghosh, Rashmi Menon

Day 2
1:00 pm
Watchtower

Lines on a Map: South Asia Stories

Ameena Hussein, Pallavi Aiyar, Samanth Subramanian with Diaa Hadid

Day 2
4:15 pm
Left Barrack

Long Live the Short Story

Ameena Hussein, Amita Basu, Aruna Nambiar with Jahnavi Barua

Bio

Ameena Hussein is a Sri Lankan author and co-founder of the Perera-Hussein Publishing House. Her non-fiction book Chasing Tall Tales and Mystics: Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka won the State Literary Prize for Humanities, 2020. Her novel The Moon in the Water was longlisted for the
Man Asian Literary Award and the Dublin IMPAC.