Hyderabad Literary Festival
Hyderabad Literary Festival (HLF) is an annual event celebrating creativity in all forms. HLF is a multi-genre, multidiscipline, and multilingual event that features nearly three hundred writers, artistes, academics, scholars, and publishers from India and abroad each year.
Starting in 2010, the festival emerged as an important event in the s cultural calendar. It represents the rich and cosmopolitan ethos of the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, as well as the vibrant spirit of modern Cyberabad.
The Festival is FREE and open to ALL HLF 2025
HLF 2025 is organised by “Hyderabad Literary Trust”, a registered non-profit organisation, with the support of several literary and cultural organisations, and publishing houses. For the second successive year, Sattva Knowledge City, HITEC City will be the venue of HLF 2025.
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HLF 2024
HLF Directors
Amita R Desai
Festival Director
Amita R Desai
Festival Director
Founder Director of Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, Ms Amita Desai is an alumna of the University of Hamburg, Germany. She has been representing the City State of Hamburg since 2012 as well as serving as the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana since 2022. Known for her dynamism and professionalism, she has made a substantial contribution to the cultural landscape of Hyderabad in the last two decades. She has initiated, nurtured, and supported the Hyderabad Western Music Foundation, the DocuCircle of Hyderabad, Women’s March, Emerging Palette in the visual arts, Photography events, Hyderabad International Jazz Festival among others.
Dr B Kinnera Murthy
Festival Director
Dr B Kinnera Murthy
Festival Director
Dr B Kinnera Murthy is a Strategy Consultant, Director on Corporate Boards and Academic Governing Councils, National Council Member of Professional Organisations, Founder of a Woman Support NGO, etc. since her superannuation from The Administrative Staff College of India in 2012, where she held the posts of Dean and Professor, Strategic Management. She is also associated with Moving Images and Apna Watan.
Dr T Vijay Kumar
Festival Director
Dr T Vijay Kumar
Festival Director
T Vijay Kumar currently teaches literatures in English at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad. Formerly, he was Professor and Head, Department of English, and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Osmania University, Hyderabad. His publications include critical studies: Indian Languages in the Diaspora (2021), English and Other International Languages (2018), and translations from Telugu: The Liberation of Sita (2016, 2018) by Volga and Kanyasulkam (2002) by Gurajada Venkata Appa Rao. He is TEDx speaker and a Founder Editor of Muse India: the literary ejournal.
Festival Committee
Patron
K T Rama Rao
Hon’ble Minister for IT E&C, MA&UD and Industries & Commerce Departments, Government of Telangana
Chair
Jayesh Ranjan, IAS
Special Chief Secretary, ITE&C and Industries & Commerce Departments, Government of Telangana.
Members
Anuradha Reddy
Bashir Babu Khan
Dr. C Rammanohar Reddy
GV Prasad
MA Faiz Khan
Masiuddin Ahmed
Nandini Rao
Veenakamlapally Rani
Dr. YV Reddy
Core Group
Working Group
E Sandeep
Nikhil Nalla
Nooriya Vahanvaty
Padma PVL
Y Laasya Reddy (Festival Coordinator)
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Hyderabad Literary Festival 2025
3 days, 150+ events, 300+ speakers, 85000+ visitors …
Endless fun!
HLF is your Festival. It is the Festival of Hyderabad.
Support HLF through donations! Contribute generously and make HLF happen.
* Donations are eligible for tax deduction under 80G.
Contact
Email Id
hello@hydlitfest.org
Address
Hyderabad Literary Festival
C/o Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad
20, Journalist Colony
Road No. 3, Banjara Hills
Hyderabad 500034.
The Festival is FREE and
open to ALL.
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