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Love for words draws crowds to literature festival

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ISLAMABAD: With the aim to keeping the tradition of book reading alive, the third edition of the Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF) kick-started at the Margalla Hotel on Friday, albeit with a 45 minute delay which upset some literature enthusiasts. Inaugurating the three-day event, managing director of the Oxford University Press Pakistan and founder of the […]


Islamabad Literature Festival coming to town

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ISLAMABAD: Over a 100 writers and academics from Pakistan and abroad will be participating in the second Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF), scheduled to begin on April 25. Announcing the highlights of the programme for the three-day eventat a press conference on Tuesday, Oxford University Press (OUP) Managing Director Ameena Saiyid said 110 Pakistani and eight […]


Literature for the people

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When I attended the first Islamabad Literature Festival a few days ago, I felt nostalgic. It reminded me of the autumn book fares and seminars we had in Oslo when I was a young editor with the Norwegian Universities Press. I wish we could have done as well as Oxford University Press did with its […]