Shobhaa De visited us in Colombo on the 7th july for an informal discussion of her works. A selection of her books are on sale at Barefoot or availbale on line from our festival bookshop  

 For more news on Shobhaa De:

Twitter http://twitter.com/deshobhaa

Wikapedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shobhaa_De

Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frhMkW7ocC8

Fatima Bhutto

Many of you will have attended the session we had with Fatima in Colombo in October of last year, her book Songs of Blood and Sword is now out and can be ordered through our Amazon link.

Reviews and comments on the book

Video clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7cujmSx1vk

Guardian review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/25/songs-blood-sword-fatima-bhutto

The Independent review
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/songs-of-blood-and-sword-by-fatima-bhutto-1945756.html

Rana Dasgupta

Rana Dasgupta has just won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Solo, the book he read by candlelight at the Festival 2010

Review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/12/rana-dasgupta-commonwealth-writers-prize

Solo can be brought through our Amazon link.

Shehan Karunatilaka's book Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew  is to be published by Random House in 2011.  He read from the novel in manuscript at the opening of the Festival 2009 and won the Gratiaen Prize for it shortly
after.

Highlights of the Galle Literary Festival 2010

Some early reviews of the Galle Literary Festival 2010:

LITERALLY WORLD CLASS, The Nation, Sunday 7 February, 2010 http://www.nation.lk/2010/02/07/eyefea6.htm

A MAJOR EVENT FOR BOOK-LOVERS, Dawn, Wednesday 3 February, 2010

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/columnists/14-irfan-husain-the-fourth-galle-literary-festival-320-zj-05

HEAD TO THE TOTALLY-UNSTUFFY, THOUROUGHLY EXHILARATING GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL, The Sunday Times, Sunday 7 February 2010

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100207/Plus/plus_18.html

A PLATFORM FOR SERIOUS ARTISTS TO FEATURE THEIR WORK, The Sunday Times, Sunday 7 February 2010

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100207/Magazine/sundaytimesmagazine_01.html 

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