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Global Literary Festival Noida |
Noida:
A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers'
festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an
annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a
variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events,
delivered over a period of few days, with the primary objectives of promoting
the authors' books and fostering a love of literature and writing.
Global
Literary Festival Noida is an extension of two very big global festivals
organized in Noida that is Global Film Festival[17 to 19th Nov] and
Global Festival of Journalism [12 to 14 th Feb.] There is no literary festival
in UP of international stature, this will replace and add to all other literary
festival in the state informed Sandeep Marwah President of the festival.
In
all these three days workshops, master classes, readings, book releases,
screenings, launchings, writers meet, publishers meet, book stalls,
competitions, entertainment programs, art exhibitions, grand opening and
closing award function will take place added Sushil Bharti Festival Director.
Some
of the known writers like R.K.Mishra,
Pankaj Singh, Divik Ramesh, Dr. Sham Singh Shashi, Ashok Bajpai, Dr.
Namvar Singh, Gopal Das Neeraj, Santosh Anand, DR. Madhikar Gangadhar, Rajjat
Arora, Atul Sabarwal are on the board.
International
Chamber of Media And Entertainment Industry, Ministry of Skill Development,
Ministry of Culture And Tourism, State Government of Uttar Pradesh, Noida
Authority, Film Federation of India and United Nation Information Centre will
support the festival.
Writers
like Ajay Nawaria, Dhananjya Singh, Darain Shahidi, Hari Suman Bist, Vishwa
Jtoti Ghosh, Raveesh Kumar, Natasha Arora, will be attending the festival. We
are expecting participation from other counties of the World also.
The
festival will start from 23rd to 25th September 2015 at
Marwah Studio at Noida Film City.