The Festival will once again take place in and around the world heritage site of Galle Fort from 28 January - 1 February 2009.
Tickets will be on sale from Monday 5th January at our box offices in Colombo and Galle, and through this website. Writers this year include Thomas Keneally, Germaine Greer, Pico Iyer, Edna O’Brien, Romesh Gunesekera, V.V. Ganeshananthan, MJ Akbar, Giles Milton, Moses Isegawa, Michael Morpurgo and many more. We are also especially delighted to include alongside established Sri Lankan writers, talented new voices that we’ll be hearing from for the first time!
The third Galle Literary Festival will bring back the intimate literary lunches and dinners that have become one of the Festival’s trademark highlights. This year we will also be running more workshops for writers and sneak previews for readers on what our writers are working on next. We hope to have as vibrant a fringe festival as ever running parallel to each day’s events.
We look forward to welcoming back those of you who have come before and hope those coming for the first time will understand why Alexander McCall Smith said of the 2008 Festival
“I think it was one of the best literary festivals I have ever been to. There was something very special about the atmosphere which made it stand out from the run of these things - a friendly feeling and an enjoyable programme both worked with one another beautifully.”
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