IAAC Literary Festival 2024
Indo-American Arts Council
Presents2024 Literary Festival
November
New York
The Indo-American Arts Council is thrilled to announce the call for submissions for our 2024 literary festival.
The in-person festival is slated to be held in New York City on the weekend of November 9th and 10th.
This festival celebrates and explores the vibrant and diverse cultures of India through the written word.
We feature works written by Indian and diaspora authors, works related to India,
and works inspired by the many rich facets of the country. We invite submissions of published books of poetry,
fiction, non-fiction, drama, and children's literature.
We strongly believe that words have the power to connect worlds and look for works that examine and showcase
the beauty, challenges, complexity, diversity, and richness of Indian culture and its relationship to society,
history, politics, spirit, and the human experience.
We accept original works in English and the languages of India with English translations.
In the past, the IAAC Literary Festival has had the honor of hosting prominent authors such as Salman Rushdie, Suketu Mehta, Dr. Amartya Sen, Indra Nooyi, Barkha Dutt, Deepti Naval, Deepak Chopra, Anupam Kher, Rakesh Kaul, Meena Kandasamy, Dr. Ravi Shankar, Award-winning journalists Barkha Dutt & Neerja Chowdhury, Newbery Honor recipient Veera Hiranandani, Booker Nominee Avni Doshi, Dr. Sudha Murthy, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, OBE recipient Vandana Saxena Poria, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Narayan Hegde, Megha Majumdar, John Guy, International Booker Prize winner Daisy Rockwell, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Kailash Satyarthi, Kal Penn, Vishakha Desai, Anupam Kher, Ambassador Haksar and Member of Parliament Dr. Shashi Tharoor.
We have organized book launches for eminent authors such as Ramchandra Guha, and Madhur Jaffrey, and in 2021 launched Acrobat by Nandana Sen, and the official biography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Interest in the IAAC Literary Festival has continued to grow and garner international attention.
We highlight topics like Empowerment, Health & Wellness, Sustainability and Inclusivity.
IAAC believes in building a world where literature can thrive. To this end, we partner with leading organizations such as Poets & Writers, Kundiman, and the Asian American Writers Workshop.
The only criteria besides a focus on India or work by an Indian or diaspora author is literary excellence, whether you are a children’s book author or a poet.
We wish you the very best and look forward to reading your submissions.
Here is information on some of our past festivals:
- https://iaac.us/iaac-literary-festival-2023/
- https://iaac.us/iaac-literary-festival-2022/
- https://iaac.us/iaac-literary-festival-2021/
- https://iaac.us/iaac-literary-festival-2020/
- https://iaac.us/iaac-literary-festival/
IAAC believes in supporting the artistic community. We have expanded our support for artists generally and authors specifically.
IAAC will:
- Pay an author honorarium
- Pay a moderator honorarium
- Include a link to book purchase
About the Indo-American Arts Council :
The Indo-American Arts Council is a not-for-profit arts organization passionately dedicated to promoting, showcasing, and building an awareness of the arts and artists whose heritage lies in the Indian subcontinent in the performing arts, visual arts, literary arts, and folk arts. IAAC supports all the artistic disciplines in classical, fusion, folk, and innovative forms influenced by the arts of India. They work cooperatively with colleagues around the United States to broaden collective audiences and create a network for shared information, resources, and funding. The IAAC’s focus is to help artists and art organizations in North America as well as to facilitate artists from India to exhibit, perform, and produce their work in the United States. www.iaac.us
COMMITTEE AND CURATORS
Festival Director
Preethi Urs is originally from Bengaluru and is now a proud New Yorker. She credits these two cities for birthing and nurturing her love for literature and the arts. She started her career in public relations where she helped international companies connect with their American counterparts. ... After completing an MS in education from Bank Street College of Education, she taught kindergarten and first grade. She and her husband live in Manhattan, where their two children were born and raised.
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Jennifer Acker is founder and editor in chief of The Common, and author of the debut novel The Limits of the World. Her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in Amazon Original Stories,... Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1, The Yale Review, and Ploughshares, among other places. Acker has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches writing and editing at Amherst College, where she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and organizes LitFest. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband.jenniferacker.com
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Pushcart prize winning poet, translator and professor Ravi Shankar has published, edited or has forthcoming over fifteen books, including the Muse India award-winning translations of 9th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal, 'The Autobiography of a Goddess' (Zubaan/University of Chicago), 'The Golden Shovel: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks" (University of Arkansas) and 'The Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems 1997-2017' (Recent Works Press).... Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he co-edited W.W. Norton's "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond" and he founded one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, Drunken Boat. He has taught and performed around the world and currently holds a research fellowship from the University of Sydney. His collaborative chapbook, 'A Field Guide to Southern China' written with T.S. Eliot Prize winner George Szirtes was just published in the UK August 2019 by Eyewear Publishing.
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Professor Narayan Hegde is Emeritus Professor of English at SUNY College at Old Westbury, where he taught English,
Indian, and World Literatures. As a Senior Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies,
he has translated several works of Kannada literature, ... including
Stallion of the Sun and Other Stories by U. R. Ananthamurthy, Annayya's Anthropology by A. K. Ramanujan,
and a 19th-century drama, The Marriage Farce of Iggappa Hegade. He is a recipient of the Katha Translation Award.
Translation of Avasthe, a Kannada novel by the eminent Indian author, U.R.Ananthamurthy, was recently published by
HarperCollins India. He is currently part of a team translating the 15th century Kannada epic Kumaravyasa Bharatha
for publication by Harvard University Press in its Murty Classical Library of India series.
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Professor S.N. Sridhar is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Professor of Linguistics and India Studies, and Director of the Mattoo Center for India Studies at Stony Brook University, where he has been teaching since 1980.He graduated from Central College, Bangalore University, with a B.A. (Honors) and M.A. in English literature and linguistics with a first class and the first rank for the University. ... He did a Ph.D. in Linguistics with distinction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Professor S.N. Sridhar is an internationally recognized expert on multilingualism, Indian linguistics, World Englishes, and Kannada. His research concerns many areas, including: bilingualism (language contact and convergence); sociolinguistics of code-switching and code-mixing, language modernization, language spread; second language acquisition in non-native settings; Indian English and other World Englishes; reference grammar of Kannada (syntax, morphology, social dimensions); psycholinguistics (sentence production, code-mixing), applied linguistics (scope and relation to linguistic theory), historical linguistics (acquisition of subjecthood, contact-induced language change), and history of linguistics (Indian grammatical tradition). Currently, he is working on a monograph on multilingualism in India and another on the classic Kannada poet Kumara Vyasa and another on multilingualism in India. He heads an international consortium of scholars translating the Kannada classic Mahabharata by Kumaravyasa into English, to be published in three volumes in the Murthy Classical Library by Harvard University.
Professor S.N. Sridhar is author of three books: Kannada: Descriptive Grammar (Routledge, 1990 and Manohar 2001), Cognition and Sentence Production: A Cross-Linguistic Study (Springer Verlag, 1986), and India Kannada (Contemporary Kannada, Kannada University, 1995 and Abhinava, 2009); co-editor of two reference volumes ( Ananya: A Portrait of India (AIA, 1997), and Language in South Asia (Cambridge, 2008) and seven special issues of journals, and author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries.
Professor S.N. Sridhar’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. He was designated Senior/Superior Scholar in the Humanities by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a plenary or keynote speaker at many international conferences, including the Linguistic Society of India in 2013, and member of editorial board of journals, evaluator of publication projects and academic programs. He was conferred the select faculty rank of Distinguished Service Professor by the State University of New York in 2011. He is Vice-President and President Elect of the International Association of World Englishes.
Professor S.N. Sridhar is a co-founder of South Asian Languages Analysis (SALA) and organized its international conferences at Stony Brook in 1983 and 2004. He has also organized or co-organized conferences on Dravidian Linguistics, India Studies, the Teaching of Linguistics, and Teaching of Asian Languages.
Professor S.N. Sridhar is the founding Director of the Center for India Studies at Stony Brook, which has evolved over two decades into a national model of Indian American community-public university partnership in developing India Studies. He also served as the Founding Chair of the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies from 2002-2008.Professor S.N. Sridhar is also active in the community. He founded the India Society of Stony Brook in 1989 and served as its first President until 1994. He has also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Indians in America and of the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Board of Governors of the Indo-American Arts Council, New York.He lives in Stony Brook with his wife and collaborator, Professor Kamal (Meena) Sridhar.
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Makarand R Paranjape is currently Director of Education, Access Health Care Physicians, Spring Hill, Florida.
Professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University for nearly 25 years, he also served as Director,
Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Shimla) ...
and held several fellowships/visiting professorships including
the inaugural India Chair at the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore,
the Shivadasani Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, the CAPES Visiting Professorship at the University
of São Paulo and Federal University of Minas Gerais, and the inaugural Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair
in World Literature at the University of Tuebingen. The author/editor of over 50 books,
he has published over 200 academic papers/book chapters, and over a thousand newspaper/periodical essays and op-eds.
His ongoing columns include “Soft Power” (Open magazine), “Right Turn” (Gulf News), “Truth or Dare” (ToI Plus),
and “US Sutra” (FirstPost). His latest books include Mahatma Gandhi: Mrityu aur Punarutthan (Penguin Swadesh),
Identity’s Last Secret (BluOne Ink), and Swami Vivekananda: Hinduism and India’s Road to Modernity (HarperCollins).
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Indo-American Arts Council
2024 Literary Festival
New York
All Session are free to public, Please RSVP
Day, November 2024
Room A
00:00 - 00:00 PM -
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Room C
Sunday, November 19 2023
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Indo-American Arts Council
2024 Literary Festival
New York
November 2024
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POETRY
November 00 2024
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