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The 2008 Galle Literary Festival will take place from the 16th – 20th January 2008.

Details of the 2008 programme will be released in the coming months.

For more information please contact:

Libby Southwell (International Media)
info@galleliteraryfestival.com

Nazreen Sansoni or Rasika (Local Media)
artgallery@barefoot.lk
Ph:  +94 11 2505559

Press Releases

• Galle Literary Festival voted as No. 1 Literary Festival in the world, Harpers UK (1/3/2007)
• 2007 Literary Festival Launch Release ( 10/1/07)
• 2007 Literary Festival CHEFS Announcement (10/1/2007)
• 2007 Galle Literary Festival Anouncement (20/11/2006)
• International award winning authors head to Sri Lanka for premier literary event (27/10/2006)
• The historic city of Galle hosts Sri Lanka’s first literary festival (10/08/2006)

Press Articles

• Six of the best Literary Festivals, Harpers UK (February 2007)
• The Galle Literary Festival, Serendib Sri Lankan Airlines Inflight Magazine (January 2007)
• Stars of Letters, Sunday Observer, Sri Lanka (21/1/2007)
• So whose nation is this anyway, The Nation, Sri Lanka (21/1/2007)
• Of books and ocean song, The Nation, Sri Lanka (21/1/2007)
• An Inheritance Divided, The Nation, Sri Lanka (21/1/2007)
• A celebration it was! The Sunday Times Online, Sri Lanka (21/1/2007)
• Kiran Desai runs out of ideas, The Daily Times, Pakistan (17/1/2007)
• Sri Lanka woos tourists with books, BBC News (15/1/2007)
• Desai's Inheritance of Success, BBC News (14/1/2007)
• The Galle Literary Festival, Serendipity (December 2006)
• The Galle Literary Festival, The Leisure Times, Sri Lanka (Dec-Jan 2007)
• The Galle Literary Festival, Dubai Society (December 2006)
• The Galle Literary Festival, Travel&Leisure (December 2006)
• The Galle Literary Festival, Travel SriLanka (December 2006)
• Lets talk literature, The Sunday Times Online, Sri Lanka (3/12/2006)
• Award winning authors at the Galle Literary Festival, Daily (2/12/2006)
• 20 Great things to do this winter, The Guardian, UK (18/11/2006)
• Meeting, hearing weilers of the written word, The Sunday Tim (7/1/2006)
• Sunday Times, UK - 26/10/2006
• http://www.dailymirror.lk/2006/12/02/life/4.asp
• The Guardian, UK - 16/11/2006
• http://travel.guardian.co.uk/article/2006/nov/18/culturaltrips.wintersportsholidays.saturday
• www.reddottours.com/Information/News/GalleLiteraryFestival