Penang’s George Town Literary Festival (GTLF) will return for the seventh edition this year from November 24-26 with the theme Monsters & (Im)Mortals.
The three-day festival will see panel discussions, book launches, workshops, a poetry marathon, readings, conversations, spoken word performances, dance and film screenings.
Literary luminaries from aroind the globe such as Icelandic poet and children’s book writer Gerður Kristný, Belgian cultural historian David van Reybrouck, and Burmese poet and artist Maung Day will be in attendance, as well as local talents from Malaysia such as novelist Fahmi Mustaffa and fantasy author Zen Cho.
This year’s GTLF is accompanied by a fringe festival and a free public screening of the movie You Mean the World to Me, set in 1970s Penang and the first Malaysian film to be filmed entirely in Penang Hokkien.
The festival is the largest international literary festival in Malaysia and is funded by the state government of Penang, with support by the Penang Convention & Exhibition Bureau as festival producer.
