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KOLKATA, INDIA


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Abroad Writers' Conference is proud to announce we will be holding the first major literary conference in Kolkata, India. We will be holding this conference in the center of this historic City of Joy at the magnificent Victoria Memorial Museum and the Oberoi Grand Hotel. For 10 days we will be holding daily lectures, readings and group discussions by some of the worlds most inspirational authors. 40 Award winning authors and three Nobel Prize winners.


 

We'll be bringing 40 Award Authors including two Nobel Prize winners, numerous Indian authors and eight literary agents to Kolkata for a ten day Literary festival. Daily lectures, readings and group discussion from 0800 - 1700. Evening lectures and performances with dinner from 1800 - 2300 nightly.


 

Authors: *CHRIS ABANI-- Pen/Hemingway, WILLIAM DALRYMPLE-- Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography, JUNOT DIAZ—Pulitzer Prize winner, *MARK DOTY—National book award winner, ARIEL DORFMAN, LAURA ESQUIvEL –-Novelist and Academy Award winning screenplay (Like Water for Chocolate), *KAREN JOY FOWLER—Pen/Faulkner finalist, Hugo Award, *JANE HAMILTON—Orange and Pen/Hemingway, *EDWARD HUMES—Pulitzer Prize, *RUSSELL CYLN JONES—Award winning novelist and Booker judge, *MAXINE HONG KINGON—National Book Award winner and Honorary winner of NBA, *YIYUM LI—Pen/Hemingway, *PAUL MULDOON—Pulitzer Prize winning poet, *RICHARD POWERS—National Book Award winner, *NAHID RACHLIN—Pen Syndicated Fiction Project Award, *MICHELE ROBERTS—Booker finalist, JOAN SILBER—Pen/Hemingway and NBA finalist, *GAIL TSUKIYAMA--PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, *LILY TUCK—National Book Award winner, *REBECCA WALKER


 

*workshop instructors additional authors and agents to be announced


 

Agent: David Godwin: David Godwin Associates Ltd, London


 

Workshops will be held in fiction/non-fiction, poetry, memoir and playwriting.


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Afternoon & nightly lectures, readings and group panel discussions.


 

Conference/workshop w/hotels Prices include: hotel for 11 nights, 3 meals a day, daily conference pass, Gala opening, workshops and personal consultations with author and agent.


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HHI (photo), Peerless or Lytton hotel: $2,750 shared twin


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HHI, Peerless (photo) or Lytton hotel: $3,550 single


 

Oberoi Hotel: $4,550 single (Forbes best 400 hotels in the world)


 

Kolkata residents--without hotels: $2,000 workshop & conference with lunch and dinner.


 

Conference price:


 

One Day Pass to conference: $60.00 8--5


 

10 day Conference Pass $500.00 8 - 5


 

Luncheon: $95.00 includes one day pass.


 

Dinner: $125.00: 6--11 pm includes evening lecture and performance. One day pass not included. Special Gala opening, $250.00.


 

*15 minute meeting with agent: $50.00 (does not include day pass)