THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The second Hay Festival Kerala will take place in the city from November 17 to 19. A stellar line-up of poets, novelists, journalists, film-makers and performers from India and across the world will be participating in the festival, which will be held at Kanakakkunnu Palace. For the second edition of the festival in Kerala, Hay, in collaboration with Teamwork Productions, has programmed poets working in languages from around the world: Spanish, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindu, Welsh, Icelandic and English. The celebration of world languages will culminate in a poetry gala at the Kanakakkunnu Palace with K Satchidanandan, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Arundhati Subramaniam. According to Lyndy Cooke, executive director of Hay Festivals: “This year’s programme has a stunning line-up that celebrates the languages of the world and the issues of the day.” It is a varied programme with literature, science, film and cosmology lectures, interviews and debates at a festival to which all are invited to take part and ask questions. The line-up includes Jung Chang, author of ‘Wild Swans’ and biographer of Chairman Mao, BBC World Anchor Nik Gowing chairing a debate about energy production, Oscar-winning film-maker Andrew Ruhemann, author Anita Nair, award-winning French novelist Agnes Desarthe, Simon Singh lecturing on cosmology and codes and writer and academic Germaine Greer speaking about Shakespeare’s lovers. Sanjoy Roy, festival producer and managing director of Teamwork Productions, has stated that Hay Festival Kerala will present a great avenue for dialogue, discussion, debate and exchange of ideas. Hay Festival began 24 years ago in Wales and has since grown in scale to become the largest festival of ideas in the UK, also running ten festivals around the world from Mexico and Colombia to Kenya and Beirut. Over the last ten years, it has become a global not-for-profit charity that runs projects and festivals worldwide, including Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Nairobi, Maldives and Beirut. Hay Festival was awarded the Queen’s Award for International Trade in 2009. The British Council has been collaborating with the festival since 2006. For more information, visit www.hayfestival.org.
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