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Video | At the 2025 Kerala Literature Festival

Video | At the 2025 Kerala Literature Festival

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Video | At the 2025 Kerala Literature Festival Imperilled worlds, real and imaginary, came alive in multiple discussions starring as many as six Booker Prize winners and nominees at the eighth edition of the Kerala Literature Festival. At the four-day festival, oft-touted as Asia’s largest festival of letters with 380 sessions, 600 speakers and over […]

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Kerala Literature Festival | Fiction is the real truth

Kerala Literature Festival | Fiction is the real truth

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“Fiction can reveal to us the truth of our life at a symbolic level, which is hugely important because human beings are symbolic animals,” said Irish novelist Paul Lynch, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize for his fifth novel, Prophet Song, a stunning portrayal of the ease with which liberal democracies can backslide into authoritarianism. Lynch, […]

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