DILF
Delhi International Literary Festival [DILF] is the first major literary festival of its kind to be held in the capital city of New Delhi in India. It is currently held under the initiative of the larger multi-genre multi-venue month-long Delhi International Arts Festival [DIAF]. DILF operates in association with Atlas, Aark Arts, Sahitya Akademi, and Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
The 2008 inaugural edition features 40 leading international and 20 Indian writers, representing nearly 30 languages. Some of the writers, languages and nationalities include:
Authors
- Anamika
- Zoran Anchevski
- Sarnath Banerjee
- Arno Bertina
- Dilip Chitre
- Adam Czerniawski
- Fred D'Aguiar
- Keki Daruwalla
- Tjawangwa Dema
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Renate Dorrestein
- Jane Draycott
- Bina Sarkar Ellias
- Peter Esterhazy
- Santiago Gamboa
- DW Gibson
- Joy Goswami
- Cecile Guilbert
- Gulzar
- Aamer Hussein
- Thomas E. Kennedy
- Mimi Khalvati
- Bas Kwakman
- Jenny Lewis
- Li Li
- Bejan Matur
- Iman Mersal
- Anna Moi
- Carol Moldaw
- Moon Chung Hee
- Clare Morgan
- Kim Morrissey
- Amir Or
- Iztok Osojnik
- Surjit Patar
- Aminur Rahman
- Tessa Ransford
- Tomaz Salamun
- K Satchidanandan
- Michael Schmidt
- Antara Dev Sen
- Sudeep Sen
- Samuel Shimon
- Arundhathi Subramaniam
- Arthur Sze
- Pia Tafdrup
- Ashok Vajpeyi
- Pavan Varma
- Triztan Vindtorn
- Neshe Yashin
Languages
- Bengali
- Danish
- Dutch
- Egyptian
- English
- French
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Iraqi
- Korean
- Macedonian
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Polish
- Punjabi
- Slovene
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Urdu
Countries
- Bangladesh
- Botswana
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- Cyprus
- Denmark
- Egypt
- England
- France
- Holland
- Hungary
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Macedonia
- Mexico
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Scotland
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Turkey
- USA
- United Kingdom
- Wales
The festival director Sudeep Sen says, "DILF is a grand meeting of fine writers from India and abroad in a milieu that is intellectually stringent, culturally vibrant, open-hearted, and full of bonhomie and good cheer. It is a platform for true international multicultural exchange between the best in India and the world in the field of creative writing, literary translation, editing and publishing."
