Dhaka Lit Fest

The Bhawal story through women’s voices in Aruna Chakravarti’s ‘The Mendicant Prince’

The story of the ailing Bhawal prince, Ramendranarayan Roy, the Mejo Kumar, who while taken to Darjeeling to recuperate, died and was cremated there, under mysterious circumstances, and who then returned years later as a wandering ascetic with partial amnesia!
8 December 2022, 04:00 AM

10th Dhaka Lit Fest will include Nobel Prize winners Orhan Pamuk and Abdulrazak Gurnah

After a two year hiatus caused by Covid-19, the 10th edition of the Dhaka Literary Festival will take place from January 5-8, 2023, at the capital’s Bangla Academy.
14 October 2022, 12:58 PM

Dhaka Lit Fest to kick off on Nov 7

The ninth edition of Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF), an internationally recognised literary festival, will be held at Bangla Academy in the capital from November 7 to 9.
5 November 2019, 07:34 AM

Discussion on the literary merit of screenplay at DLF

Dhaka Lit Fest's star-studded panel discussion titled The Stage, The Screen and The Feature Film at the lawn of Bangla Academy on Friday morning shed light on the literary value of a screenplay.
11 November 2018, 18:00 PM

Nandita Das gets candid about 'Manto' at DLF 2018

Actor-director Nandita Das's Manto, the film that took a bow in the Cannes' Un Certain Regard section this year, was screened in the AKSB auditorium on Thursday afternoon at the Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF) 2018.
9 November 2018, 18:00 PM