2015 ರ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಉತ್ಸವವನ್ನು ಕಾಶ್ಮೀರಿ ಬರಹಗಾರ ಮೊಹಮ್ಮದ್ ಅಜೂರ್ ದಾ ಮತ್ತು ಕನ್ನಡದವರೇ ಆದ ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ ಲೇಖಕಿ ಶಶಿ ದೇಶಪಾಂಡೆ ದೀಪ ಬೆಳಗಿಸಿ ಉದ್ಘಾಟಿಸಿದರು. ತಡವಾಗಿ ಬಂದ ಜ್ಞಾನಪೀಠ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪುರಸ್ಕೃತ ಸಾಹಿತಿ ಚಂದ್ರಶೇಖರ ಕಂಬಾರ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯಾಸಕ್ತರನ್ನು ಎರಡೂ ದಿನದ ಗೋಷ್ಠಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಸ್ವಾಗತಿಸಿದರು.
ಶಶಿ ದೇಶಪಾಂಡೆಯವರು ಉದ್ಘಾಟನ ಬಾಷಣ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾ, “ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯೋತ್ಸವದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸುವುದು …
An award-winning Indian novelist, and daughter of renowned Kannada writer and dramatist Sriranga, Shashi Deshpande published her first collection of short stories in 1978 and won the Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel That Long Silence in 1990.
Although Deshpande …
The 4th edition of Bangalore Literature Festival commenced on 5th December, 2015. The two day long festival will have the best of speakers, writers and thought leaders come together and share their honest and unbiased views on literature …
The 2014 BLF was inaugurated with a Kamsale invocation to Mahadeva. Highlights of the conversations include explaining what makes the BLF unique and lauding it for drawing attention to the Northeastern states. The inauguration concluded with a Shraddhanjali in the form of a documentary about U.R. Ananthamurthy.
