The Crooked Lines Literature Festival is a must-attend for anyone passionate about books and storytelling. This year’s event brings engaging conversations with prominent writers – Prof. Sam North and Jerry Pinto. Prof North, an award-winning novelist and scriptwriter from the University of Exeter, UK, has eight novels to his name, including The Automatic Man, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award while Jerry Pinto, a Sahitya Akademi and Windham-Campbell awardee, is renowned for his work as a novelist, poet, and translator.
The festival will culminate with the announcement of winners of the second edition of Crooked Lines Short Story Competition, with a special address by Rashmi Menon, Executive Editor at HarperCollins India. The day will conclude with a cultural evening featuring a performance of Dostoevsky’s The Double.