Pune International Literary Festival

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The Pune International Literary Festival is an annual literary festival held in Pune, Maharashtra. It was founded in 2013 and is one of the top eight literary festivals in India. [1] In 2017, attendance at the festival reached 15,000 people. [1] Since 2016, an international organisation Salzburg Global has been partnering with the festival. [2] [3]

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The Pune International Literary Festival is a three-day festival celebrating writers from different parts of Maharashtra and the rest of India. There are panel discussions and book launches and readers and attendees can meet authors. [4] In 2018, [5] there were 170 speakers [4] in five different halls on the campus. [6]

This festival usually takes place at the Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration, a training institute of the Maharashtra government. [7] [8] [9] [10]

In 2018, writer and columnist Shobha De opened the festival. [11] The theme in 2018 was "Family: The Core of Society". [1] In 2017, the festival was opened by [12] [13] Ustad Amjad Ali Khan.[ citation needed ] In 2019, the seventh edition of the festival focussed on climate change. [14] The social theme was "Save our Earth." Javed Akhtar opened the festival on 20 September 2019. [14]

Festival director

Dr. Manjiri Prabhu, an author and film-maker is the director of the festival. It was founded by her and she has been the director since then. [15] [16]

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