Fatima Bhutto at the DSC South Asian Literature Festival

Prize-winning authors confirmed for the Festival

The DSC South Asian Literature Festival will be showcasing a cast of well-known personalities from the worlds of literature, journalism and performing arts.

We can now begin to reveal that the Festival, which will follow the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, has confirmed Channel 4′s longstanding broadcast journalist Jon Snow, prized writer Romesh Gunesekera, author and musician Amit Chaudhuri and from Pakistan’s troubled political dynasty, Fatima Bhutto, among others to feature in the two-week programme.

The Festival will imaginatively combine South Asian literature with various other disciplines and artforms, including journalism, dance, visual art and music to explore the social, political and cultural issues that are shaping today’s world.

Political dynasties on stage for the first time
In a never-before-seen, on-stage encounter between descendants of India and Pakistan’s political dynasties, the Nehru and Bhutto families, Nayantara Sahgal and Fatima Bhutto will share their experiences of growing up in such powerful and turbulent circumstances. The discussion will be moderated by well-known and respected journalist Maya Jaggi. Young and gutsy, Fatima Bhutto is the author of a recent controversial book of memoirs, Songs of Blood and Sword.

Festival Dates :
London : 15-24 October 2010
Rest of UK : 28-31 October 2010

Look out for her events in the local papers.

Source :
http://southasianlitfest.com/2010/07/and-the-authors-are/