Three-day Odisha Art and Literature Festival Starts Today

Bhubaneswar: Like every year, the 8th edition of ‘Odisha Art and Literature Festival’ will be held from 8th December this year at Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Odissi Research Center Theater in Bhubaneswar. India’s famous playwright and theater director Mahesh Dattani will inaugurate this festival. Internationally renowned Singaporean poet Alvin Pang, Israeli poets CP Levin Byron and Rabib Byron, Nepalese poet Mallika Shakya, Hong Kongbased Indian poet M.K. Ajay will be joined by Sukrita Paul Kumar, editor of Indian Literature, along with well-known Croatian women poets Sonja Manojlovic and Lana Derkak. Senior editors of India’s prominent publishing houses, Milli Aishwarya, Mautusi Mukherjee, director of Niyogi Publishing House and prominent literary figure Niramkanti Bhattacharya are scheduled to attend the festival. This year, senior and promising dramatists and drama lovers will be felicitated by the festival for their remarkable contribution to drama. Among them are Mahesh Dattani, Anant Mohapatra, Samanjas Das, Satyabrat Raut, Dhir Mallik. Apart from this, the English translation of famous plays ‘Mrigaya’ by eminent dramatist Biswajit Das, ‘The Hunt’, ‘No Rahman Babu’ by noted Urdu orator Yogendra Paul. In addition, Shankar Prasad Tripathi’s novel ‘The Savior’ translated into English, and the poetry book ‘Glass Women’ by noted poet Prabhasini Mahakud will be released.The first issue of ‘Anam’, an English magazine containing international writers’ writings, will be released on this occasion. Along with this, the English poetry collection ‘Map of Morning’ edited jointly by MK Ajay and Manu Dash will also be launched. Major organizations that have extended their support to make the event a success include Presenting Sponsors JM-Box, NMDC, Powerbuy-Evos Buildcon, Indian Oil and Associate Sponsors-Life Insurance Corporation and Steel Authority of India Ltd. Apart from this every evening a cultural program by ‘ICCR’ will be staged. Writers, artists, painters, music lovers of Odisha can take advantage of the experience of internationally renowned writers and renowned writers of India, said Manu Dash, director of the festival.

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