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Galle Literary Festival

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The Galle Literary Festival is an international literary festival held annually in Galle, Sri Lanka. [1]

23 relations: Alexander McCall Smith, Chirkutt, Christopher Dawes (author), D. J. Taylor, Dave Thompson (author), Dillie Keane, Galle, HSBC, Jason Kouchak, Julian Barnes, Literary festival, Madhur Jaffrey, Maggie Smith, Michael Morpurgo, Orhan Pamuk, Richard Dawkins, Richard Flanagan, Sebastian Faulks, Shashi Tharoor, Shyam Selvadurai, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sri Lanka, Tom Stoppard.

Alexander McCall Smith

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Chirkutt

Chirkutt is the Internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi fusion band.

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Christopher Dawes (author)

Christopher Dawes (born 26 February 1961) is a British journalist and author.

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D. J. Taylor

David John Taylor (born 1960) is a British critic, novelist and biographer.

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Dave Thompson (author)

Dave Thompson (born 4 January 1960) is an English writer who is the author of more than 100 books, largely dealing with rock and pop music, but also covering film, sports, philately, numismatics and erotica.

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Dillie Keane

Louise Miriam "Dillie" Keane (born 23 May 1952) is an Olivier Award-nominated actress, singer and comedian. She is perhaps best known as one third of the comedy cabaret trio Fascinating Aïda since its 1983 inception, but she has also had a prominent solo career.

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Galle

Galle (ගාල්ල; காலி) is a major city in Sri Lanka, situated on the southwestern tip, 119 km from Colombo.

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HSBC

HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational banking and financial services holding company, tracing its origin to a hong in Hong Kong.

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Jason Kouchak

Jason Kouchak is a French pianist, composer and singer-songwriter.

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Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer.

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Literary festival

A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city.

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Madhur Jaffrey

Madhur Jaffrey, CBE (born Bahadur, 13 August 1933) is an Indian-born actress, food and travel writer, and television personality.

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Maggie Smith

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress.

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Michael Morpurgo

Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo, (born Michael Andrew Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982).

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Orhan Pamuk

Ferit Orhan Pamuk (generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk; born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author.

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Richard Flanagan

Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian novelist from Tasmania.

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Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Charles Faulks CBE (born 20 April 1953) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster.

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Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor (born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician and a former career international diplomat who is currently serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009.

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Shyam Selvadurai

Shyam Selvadurai (born 12 February 1965) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist who wrote Funny Boy (1994), which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens (1998).

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Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore (born 27 June 1965) is a British historian, television presenter and award-winning author of popular history books and novels.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galle_Literary_Festival

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