Oxford University Press has made necessary arrangements for the celebration of three days Karachi Literature Festival for the year 2013 from February 15 to 17, 2013. This film festival is going to be organized at the Beach Luxury Hotel Karachi as Karachi Jashan-e-Adab festival which is open and free for all. This festival has already been celebrated from 2010 which includes different types of episodes like mushairah, lectures, debates, book launches, book fair, discussion, creative writing workshop, readings and signings. The organizers have also arranged the festival in the main city this time for the ease of the public and they also going to arrange the Children Literature Festival with the help of Karachi Literature Festival.
Karachi Literature Festival 2013
The organizers and the sponsors of Oxford University Press and director by Ameena Saiydi and the co-founder this festival like Asif Farrukhi and Ameena Saiydi showed their satisfaction over the increasing of number of attendants in the festival. When this festival was started in 2010, then the number of people was only 5,000 but in2011 this number of people increased to 10,000 and in 2012 this number was also increased to about 15,000. It is also expected that this year the number of people will be grown much as it is also arranged in the heart of the city. This festival also held the number of session 34 and there were the speaker performers were only 35 in 2010, but in 2011 the number of sessions was increased to about 46 and the speakers performers rose to 102. The number of speaker performers rose to 140 and the number of sessions was rose to 62. It is also expected that there will be speaker performers 214 and the number of sessions will be 129 and this festival will be continued for 3 days.
The organizers has decided that the festival will be celebrated in twelve countries like India, Pakistan, Palestine, Nepal, Italy, France, Germany, United States, UK, Russia, Canada and Sweden and the authors who will be included in this festival will write in nine different languages like Italian, Urdu-Hindi, French, German, English, Sindhi, Russian, Punjabi and Swedish. The fields which are included for creative writings are included art for booking making for children, theatre, film, photography, puppetry, spoken word poetry and dance.
The festival management has made the arrangements for giving away prizes for the best non-fiction book written in English by a Pakistani which have been published the last year are Dt Jaffer Ahmed Juried, Zubeida Mustafa and Ghazi Salahuddin who won the award in 2011. The prize awarding to the authors was about 1,00,000 and now in the current year this prize will be about 1.50,000 which will be awarded to the best non-fiction English writer.