BySukant Deepak

December 03, 2021 (IANSlife) The sixth edition of the Kerala Literature Festival (KLF 2022) will be held at the beaches of Calicut (Kozhikode) from January 20 to January 23, 2022. Over 400 speakers, including Jeffrey Archer, Ada Yonath, Abhijit Banerjee, Arundhati Roy, Remo Fernandes, Sagarika Ghose, Wendy Doniger, Shashi Tharoor, Manu S Pillai, Devdutt Pattanaik, Chris Kraus, and Sudhir Kakar, among others, will be part of the festival.

The event is organised by the DC Kizhakemuri Foundation and supported by the Kerala Tourism Board. The well-known poet, critic, and writer, Prof. K. Satchidanandan, is the festive director of KLF 2022. Set along the shores of the Arabian Sea, the four-day festival brings artists, actors, celebrities, writers, thinkers, and activists closer to people of different backgrounds and interests. With over 3 lakh visitors, KLF is Asia's second largest festival of its kind, combining the best of literary and popular culture.

The sessions at KLF aim to map literature through discussions on science and technology, art, cinema, politics, music, environment, literature, pandemic & its consequences, business & entrepreneurship, health, art & leisure, travel & tourism, gender, economy, culture, genomics, history & politics, and various facets that shape human consciousness.

The KLF sessions aim to map literature through discussions on science and technology, art, cinema, politics, music, environment, literature, pandemic and its consequences, business & entrepreneurship, health, art & leisure, travel & tourism, gender, economy, culture, genomics, history & politics, and other facets that shape human consciousness.

KLF 2022 will host 200 or more sessions boasting writers, experts, and performers from across India and more than 12 nations globally.

This year, the organisers will introduce a curated gastronomical exuberance with food trucks and ethnic cuisines.

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