The Eleventh Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Monday, November 16th to Sunday, November 22nd 2020
Virtual Festival
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A great traveller with a cosmopolitan mind, Patrick heads both the Maison des écrivains étrangers et traducteurs (MEET – The House of Foreign Authors and Translators) in Saint-Nazaire and the journal with the same name. In 2011, the editors of ‘Lire’ magazine selected his novel, ‘Kampuchea: Roman’ as the best French novel of the year. In 2012, his novel ‘Plague and Cholera’ (based on the life of the bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin) was one of the most discussed books of the literary season and received both the Prix Fnac and the Prix Femina. His most recent novel ‘Amazonia’, was published in France in September 2019.
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A C Grayling
England
A C Grayling CBE, is the Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, and its Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s…
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Alexander McCall Smith
Scotland
A former Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh, Alexander has written more than 100 books. He is best known for ‘The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency’…
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Ambarish Satwik
India
Ambarish is a Delhi-based vascular surgeon and writer. His debut novel ‘Perineum: Nether Parts of the Empire’, a rogue, fictive sexual history of the British Raj, was published in…
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Amrita Mahale
India
Amrita is the author of the novel ‘Milk Teeth’. Her writing has appeared in ‘Hindustan Times’, ‘Scroll’, ‘Himal Southasian’ and ‘Brown Paper Bag’. Amrita was trained as an aerospace…
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