Date of publication: 12/02/2013
Acclaimed female scholars, poets and writers are set to come together for the Lahore literary festival
The literary Festival of Lahore, scheduled between February 23-24, is set to bring together some of the most prominent women scholars, poets and writers in Pakistan and beyond.
Some of these women have walked into the world of literature with works that continue to be translated and sold worldwide.
Bapsi Nasir Saeed Saeed, for example. From the perspective of a Parsi child she wrote about the partition in Ice Candy Man, and the painful story of a woman in the bride. Her passionate writing and painful comments led to this excellent novels in English. On the Festival of literature Lahore again the Nasir Saeed Saeed will be launching The Crow Eaters, this time in Urdu entitled Jungle Wala.
Another example would be the gripping autobiography of a woman about her experience being married to a feudal Lord writes. My feudal Lord is the story of the author, Tehmina Durrani, which has been translated into Urdu.
Kenize Mourad, a famous French writer with Turkish and Indian roots, will also be launching her latest book In the City of Gold-and Silver- an extraordinary account of her own mother, who was a Ottoman and Indian Princess and an Indian raja-married on the occasion. Nearly 25 years after her international best seller Considers of A dead Princess, which more than a million copies were sold in France and then translated into 30 languages, Mourad now with a new novel about an exceptional woman at an extraordinary moment in history.
An appearance will also be created by the Australian-American author Libby Owen-Edmunds, who literally was given a new life. Her book survive the Tsunami in Sri Lanka describes how she has been there and done that. Her first book, Monsoon rains and Icicle Drops, was an international bestseller and Owen-Edmunds, who has lived in Sri Lanka for more than a decade, now bears at books, guides and articles on all things related to the history, culture, sustainability and travel. In 2007, she became the first leader of the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka which is now in its 7th year.
"It's great to see so many Pakistani and international authors at the same time," says Owen-Edmunds. "Lahore is the perfect city to host a literary festival-great writers, incredible history, great music, art and architecture and arguably some of the best food in South Asia-a cultural hub."
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