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.

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