Team Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival (AKLF) met on February 2 at the heritage Oxford Bookstore for the official announcement of the 15th edition of the event. Maina Bhagat, director of AKLF and Oxford Bookstore, Anjum Katyal, director, AKLF, Swagat Sengupta, CEO of Apeejay Oxford Bookstores and Neeta Sreedharan, programming head of Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, attended the press meet.
The AKLF 2024 will be attended by 126 speakers, including P. Chidambaram, Swastika Mukherjee, Bickram Ghosh, Monideepa Banerjie, Jerry Pinto, Kunal Basu, Maria Goretti, Abhijit Gupta, Anita Agnihotri, Anuja Chauhan, Bittu Sahgal, Carina Rozenfeld, Durjoy Datta, Louise Fowler-Smith, Kumar Bose, Srijato, Sudeshna Roy, Riddhi Sen and Shaun Kenworthy, among others. Dia Mirza, Lennie Goodings and Priti Paul will also participate virtually in the literary festival.
The Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival will take place from February 9 to 11 at Allen Park, Park Street. The Poetry Café will be hosted at Alliance Française du Bengale. The other sessions, including the Oxford Junior Literary Festival (OJLF), will take place at the Oxford Bookstore in Park Street. There will also be a special session with Jerry Pinto and Anuja Chauhan at the Tollygunge Club.
