Shangri-la Sambad to Spotlight Fiction Craft with Upadhyay, Adhikari

Kathmandu – Shangri-la Literature Festival is organizing its next edition of Shangri-la Sambad with popular, award winning author and Distinguished Professor of English, Samrat Upadhyay in conversation with the author of The Vanishing Act, Prawin Adhikari. The title of the dialogue is scheduled as “Writing Nepal: Crafting Fiction” as per the director of the festival Ken Subedi. Adhikari is set to converse with Upadhyay on his 12-year long collaborator, sponsor and judge of the Writing Nepal: A Short Story Contest. He shall also be discussing the different elements of fiction and his experience of writing crafts.

The dialogue session shall be followed by poetry recitation sessions in both English and Nepali. Celebrated and young poets shall be reciting their poems. As per Subedi, poets Dr. Naba Raj Lamsal, Haris Adhikari, Bhuwan Thapaliya, Rajnimila, Rami Priya, Asmita Badi, Dev Brat, and Kripa Khanal are set to recite their best poems with the participants, mostly readers, authors and literature enthusiasts.