Ahmedabad International Literature Festival, one of India’s most prestigious literature festivals, will be starting different awards in different categories beginning this year. Creations of Hindi, English, Gujarati and may be of few more regional languages will be included for the honour.
Starting from February 5, 2022, this year’s 7th edition of the Ahmedabad International Literature festival in 2022 is also being planned in a hybrid mode and will include Literary Awards as well.
Founder Director Umashanker Yadav informed, “Due to uncertain situation, we will start the festival through digital mode in the first week of February 2022 and whenever conditions permit, we will announce the dates for the conventional literary celebrations”.
“Online Sessions will be conducted through AILF’s social media platforms, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, mainly on weekends. In this edition emphasis will be more on inviting the less known authors of regional languages of far and remote areas of India and abroad”, He further added.
Since its grand opening edition in 2016 AILF has been reaching new heights with every passing year.
The Digital Edition in 2020 and the Hybrid Edition in 2021 were huge successes, with hundreds of speakers from all walks of life participating in discussions from all over the world on a variety of topics including poetry, drama, journalism, biographies, cinema, health, environment, culture, languages, academics, and many more.
AILF is a pet project of Ikon Education Foundation, which is working hard to promote literature, art, culture, and sports in a big way. It was founded by Umashanker Yadav, himself a published writer, and is ably supported by a talented team.