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Chicago, IL
We're delighted to announce that the 2007 Kriti Festival will be held in Chicago April 26-29th, 2007. Please mark your calendars!
Kriti will be a four-day event celebrating South Asian and diaspora literature, with panel discussions, performances, readings, music and song, storytelling for kids, and much more! At our 2005 festival we had 30 visiting writers, editors and agents, and huge fun -- for more info on that festival, take a look at our archive here: http://www.desilit.org/kriti2005.html
Our Guest of Honor in 2007 will be award-winning author Anita Desai, noted Indian novelist, short-listed for the Booker Prize three times. (Her daughter, Kiran Desai, recently won the 2006 Booker Prize.) Just a few of Anita Desai's wonderful books include Fasting, Feasting; Baumgartner's Bombay; Clear Light of Day, and In Custody (which was made into a Merchant/Ivory film, starring Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, and Om Puri). More info on Anita Desai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Desai
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