Pune’s English literature fest, PILF to be held from Dec 11-13

Pune city’s first and the only free festival of English Literature; the Pune International Literary Festival (PILF) will take place from December 11 to 13. This is the 8th edition of the festival and it would be held online keeping in mind the safety of the speakers and the audience. Dr. Manjiri Prabhu, the city-based acclaimed novelist is the festival founder and Director.

The festival is being organized with support from Vishwakarma Publications as the Title Partners. Shobha Arts is the Event Coordination Partner. Entry to the festival is free.

“The basic objective of the festival is to celebrate the ‘Word’ in all forms, to facilitate a direct connect between authors and the readers and to create an inspirational platform for all creative people – at all levels of their careers, thereby promoting the culture of  knowledge-based reading and learned appreciation of various arts and craft. PILF caters to interests of English as well as Marathi audience,” informs Manjiri Prabhu, festival director. 

She further said, “We are happy to announce that we have an impressive line-up of international Authors and Speakers from Austria, UK, France, Israel, Spain, USA, Syria, Singapore, Germanyand Portugal.” 
The schedule is being published on the www.pilf.in and the PILF Facebook page too.