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Bestselling Indian author Chetan Bhagat, Fatima Bhutto and Hardeep Singh Kohli are among the authors set to take part in the inaugural DSC South Asian Literature Festival.
Announced today (22nd September), more than 30 events are confirmed for the festival which will take place across the capital in venues including King's Place, the Free Word Centre, the British Library, British Museum and bookshops from 15-25th October and then at cities around the UK from 26th-31st October.
At the launch, the longlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature was also announced, with 16 titles in the running from publishers including Picador India, Faber, Bloomsbury and Constable & Robinson.
Co-directors Jon Slack and Bhavit Mehta of Amphora Arts said of the festival: "The thriving literary and publishing scene in South Asia was the impetus for us bringing a literary festival devoted to South Asian writing to the UK."
Also on the line-up are Amit Chaudhuri, Anjali Joseph, Roma Tearne, Geoff Dyer, Michael Wood; broadcasters Mihir Bose and George Alagiah; and jazz musician Cleveland Watkiss. A creative writing competition linked to the British Museum's A History of the World in 100 Objects, a Bollywood script-writing competition in conjunction with Penguin's teenage site Spinebreakers and Live East magazine will also be held.
The festival has also partnered with the Reading Agency to build a programme of author-led events in libraries across greater London.
The longlist in full:
Upamanyu Chatterjee: Way To Go (Penguin),
Amit Chaudhuri: The Immortals (Picador India),
Chandrahas Choudhury: Arzee the Dwarf (HarperCollins),
Musharraf Ali Farooqui: The Story of a Widow (Picador India),
Ru Freeman: A Disobedient Girl (Viking),
Anjum Hassan: Neti Neti (IndiaInk/ Roli Books),
Tania James: Atlas of Unknowns (Pocket Books),
Manju Kapur: The Immigrant (Faber),
Daniyal Muennuddin: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Bloomsbury),
Neel Mukherjee: A Life Apart (Constable & Robinson),
H M Naqvi: Home Boy (HarperCollins),
Salma: The Hour Past Midnight (Zubaan, translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom),
Sankar: The Middleman (Penguin, translated by Arunava Sinha),
Ali Sethi: The Wish Maker (Penguin),
Jaspreet Singh: Chef (Bloomsbury),
Aatish Taseer: The Temple Goers (Viking)