International

Four days in Galle by Preeta Samarasan 

http://fictionwritersreview.com/essays/four-days-in-galle  

Out of Sri Lanka's trials comes a beacon of hope, The Observer, Sunday 6 February 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/06/galle-literary-festival-sri-...

In the Room: Against a Cultural Boycott of the Galle Literary Festival, February 17 2011

http://www.themillions.com/2011/02/in-the-room-against-a-cultural-boycot...

Sri Lanka 

'India without the chaos', February 4 2011

http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201102022.html

‘We listened to authors, we made friends’, The Sunday Times, February 6 2011

http://sundaytimes.lk/110206/Magazine/sundaytimesmagazine_04.html

‘We listened to authors, we made friends’, The Sunday Times, February 6 2011

http://sundaytimes.lk/110206/Magazine/sundaytimesmagazine_04.html 

2010:

Ian Rankin declares the Galle Literary Festival his world favourite -

At an interview at the Harrogate Crime Festival, Ian Rankin nominated Galle as his favourite literary festival in the world.  "They treat you like royalty!" he said. Ian Rankin visted Galle in January 2010 and was a guest of the festiival.

Click here for the full article.

Shobhaa De

Shobhaa De visited us in Colombo on the 7th july for an informal discussion of her works. A selection of her books are on sale at Barefoot and are also available online from our festival bookshop.  

For more news on Shobhaa De:

Twitter http://twitter.com/deshobhaa

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shobhaa_De

Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frhMkW7ocC8

Fatima Bhutto

Many of you will have attended the session we had with Fatima in Colombo in October 2009), her book Songs of Blood and Sword is now out and can be ordered through our Amazon link.

Reviews and comments on the book

Video clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7cujmSx1vk

Guardian review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/25/songs-blood-sword-fatima-bhu...

The Independent review

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/songs-of-b...

Rana Dasgupta

Rana Dasgupta won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for his book Solo. Incidentally, he read this book by candlelight at the Festival in 2010.

Review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/12/rana-dasgupta-commonwealth-w...

 Solo can be brought through our Amazon link.

Shehan Karunatilaka

Shehan Karunatilaka's book Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew  published by Random House in 2011.  He read from the novel in manuscript at the opening of the Festival 2009 and won the Gratiaen Prize for it shortly after.

LITERALLY WORLD CLASS, The Nation, Sunday 7 February, 2010

http://www.nation.lk/2010/02/07/eyefea6.htm

A MAJOR EVENT FOR BOOK-LOVERS, Dawn, Wednesday 3 February, 2010

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspa...

HEAD TO THE TOTALLY-UNSTUFFY, THOUROUGHLY EXHILARATING GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL, The Sunday Times, Sunday 7 February 2010

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100207/Plus/plus_18.html 

A PLATFORM FOR SERIOUS ARTISTS TO FEATURE THEIR WORK, The Sunday Times, Sunday 7 February 2010

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100207/Magazine/sundaytimesmagazine_01.html