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The 10th edition of Dhaka Lit Fest, which took place over four days featuring a wide range of the world’s top authors, filmmakers, singers, and artists, has been concluded at the Bangla Academy with a reaffirmation of its dedication to promoting Bangladeshi literature, culture, and arts.
The festival concluded on Sunday with an enthralling closing ceremony, featuring performances by Coke Studio Bangla artistes Animes Roy, Ritu Raj, Pantha Kanai, Boga Taleb, Momotaz, Rubayat Rehman and its other artistes. With ‘Nasek Nasek’, the debut track of Coke Studio in Bangladesh, the 10th edition of the literary festival bids its adieu.
The formal closing act was conducted at the Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (AKSB) auditorium before that, and it started with a dynamic dance and recital performance by Jatrik named “Women Rise” about women’s emancipation.
The adversity and persistence against women in the Indian subcontinent were portrayed through the performance of classical and modern dance forms, choreographed by Naila Azad Nupur with recitals by DLF director-producer Sadaf Saaz and Nupur herself.
Booker Prize-winning Indian author Gitanjalee Shree, eminent Somalian novelist Nuruddin Farah, Dhaka Tribune editor Zafar Sobhan, City Bank managing director and CEO Mashrur Arefin, and Dhaka Lit Fest director and producer Sadaf Saaz spoke at the closing ceremony, sharing their remarks bidding adieus and expressing their gratitude to everyone.
Stating that the DLF has become a global celebration of literature, Geetanjali Shree said, “It has been five amazing days for me and this has been a wonderful experience. I don’t feel like a foreigner here, and Dhaka Lit Fest is not just another fest mushrooming around us.”
City Bank was the platinum sponsor of the event and Arefin said that it will be the title sponsor for the fest moving forward, and also the bank will sponsor to establish a translation centre if possible in the future.
Showcasing over 170 sessions from January 5-8, the 10th edition of Dhaka Lit Fest featured informative and engaging dialogues and cultural segments with around 500 writers, poets, performers, intellectuals, journalists, athletes, social workers and globally acclaimed-celebrated personalities including the winners of the Academy Awards, Pulitzer, International Booker, Neustadt International, and PEN/Pinter prizes, Prix Médicis, Windham-Campbell Prize, Albert Medal, Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and Aga Khan Award.
