With 340 stalls and over 100 literary sessions, Ahmedabad book festival kicks off tomorrow

“Continuing the bequest of Vanche Gujarat, the world’s largest speechmaking campaign, and gathering upon the occurrence of the World Book Fair 2024 held successful New Delhi, the AMC has organised a expansive publication fair. This event, alongside celebrations of knowledge, science, arts, and culture, aims to link the younker and elders of our federation with the emotion of books,” said Ahmedabad Mayor Pratibhaben Jain connected Thursday.

The festival, dispersed crossed a sprawling 325,000 quadrate feet area, volition person 340 stalls acceptable up by 147 exhibitors from 13 Indian states — making it 1 of the largest publication festivals successful the country.

In 2012, NBT and AMC joined hands for the archetypal clip to organise a publication festival.

“With the unwavering enactment of the radical of Ahmedabad and our collaboration with the AMC, NBT is arrogant to elevate the publication just to a genuinely planetary scale, offering a unsocial blend of attractions nether 1 roof,” said Amit Kumar Singh, Public Relations Head, NBT-India. With much than 100 literate sessions crossed six stages — Pragya Shivir (Children’s Pavilion), Shabd Samsara (Authors’ Corner), Gyaan Ganga (Literary Stage for Creative Workshops), Culinary Literature Stage (Rasoi aur Kitaab), Rangmanch (Cultural Stage), and Abhiklap (Design+), on with a Children’s Film Festival — the lawsuit promises an engaging acquisition for all.

Celebrated Speakers

This year’s just volition big speakers and authors from Spain, Sri Lanka, Poland, Denmark, Scotland, Singapore, and the UAE, on with celebrated Gujarati authors.

These volition see Padma Shri recipients specified arsenic Raghuveer Chaudhary, Kumar Pal Desai, Jagdish Trivedi and Shahbuddin Rathod on with noted authors similar Monika Halan, Ram Mori, E V Ramakrishnan, Saurabh Bajaj, William Dalrymple, Guillermo Rodríguez Martín, Monica Kowaleczko-Szumowska, and Mette Johansson.