Asia’s largest literature festival, the Kerala Literature Festival is a joyous celebration of literature and performative arts held annually on the beach at Kozhikode. An ancient city, renowned for its contributions to Kerala’s culture, UNESCO awarded Kozhikode the nomenclature as India’s first ‘City of Literature’, with the Kerala Literature Festival playing a significant role in the awarding of this honour.

Organised by the DC Kizhakemuri Foundation, the festival aims to bring together people from diverse facets of life onto a single platform and engage in aesthetic and intellectual conversations, a confluence of the arts, humanities and social sciences, staging exhibitions, exhaustive discussions and talks, film screenings and performances – a veritable festival of ideas.

Welcoming over half-a million attendees over four days, the festival features an eclectic array of speakers, a line-up that includes Nobel laureates, Booker Prize and Oscar winners, authors of acclaim and thought leaders. A cultural meeting pot and a global platform for literary and cultural symbiosis, over the years the festival has brought together contemporary artists, actors, activists, celebrities, writers and thinkers to engage in dialogue and discourses on art, cinema, culture, dance, environment, literature, science and technology.  Entirely committed to inclusivity, KLF is a vibrant platform for socio-cultural expressions that welcomes audiences to partake of the festival’s  dazzling array of entertainment and intellectual stimulation.