Fairway Galle Literary Festival kicks off this weekend

Amitav Ghosh, Sebastian Faulks, Meera Syal, Sonali Deraniyagala, Tom Holland and Gregory Pardlo- they are all going to be here this January for the Fairway Galle Literary Festival along with a host of other writers, poets and artistes who promise a veritable feast of literature.

With barely a week to go before the 2016 Festival begins, tickets are moving fast. The Festival which starts off in Kandy January 9 and 10) and moves to Galle (January 13- 17) will have its final weekend in Jaffna (January 24-25) at the Jaffna Public Library where all programmes will be absolutely free.

Tickets are now on sale for the Festival through the wow.lk website and at the box offices: In Colombo – at Wow.lk, 176/1, Thimbirigasyaya Road, Colombo 5; In Kandy – at The Empire Cafe, Temple Street, Kandy; in Galle at 27, Leyn Baan Street, Galle Fort.

The box office hours are 9.30 a.m. – 5.30 p.m. Monday to Saturday. “The list is a great one and very diverse, full of engaging thinkers and writers. I am proud to present all of them to our audience. I am sure that festivalgoers will have no problem picking out well known writers like among others. But I wanted to draw people’s attention to some other writers and events it would be a real shame to miss,” Festival Curator, Shyam Selvadurai said sharings his thoughts on writers and events festivalgoers might want to consider when making their choices of which events to attend.

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