Galle Literary Festival
galle literary festival international literary festival held annually beautiful south coastal fort town galle sri lanka recent year profile festival increased substantially attendance many internationally acclaimed wellknown author speaker title sponsor festival sri lanka tourism promotion bureau festival founded angloaustralian hotelier geoffrey dobbs ambition promote boutique tourism industry sri lanka well bench mark sri lankan author alongside internationally recognised author operational setback resulting brief hiatus due covid funding restriction th edition galle literary festival festival one leading cultural festival south asia expanded remit include art trail gourmet programme comedy music entertainment festival received recognition diversity openness spotlighting sensitive issue day galle literary festival featured many notable international diaspora local author year including tom stoppard shehan karunatilaka michael morpurgo julian barnes richard dawkins simon sebag montefiore david thompson sashi tharoor shyam selvadurai romesh gunasekera dame maggie smith richard flanagan siddharth dasgupta ashok ferrey ameena hussein dbc pierre tishani doshi headliner included mary beard shehan karunatilaka sebastian faulks christina lamb anthony horowitz alexander mccall smith past event included talk dame maggie smith cabaret dillie keane fashion show beatrice von tresckow photo exhibition chris dawes music bangladeshi fusion band chirkutt since inception galle literary festival invited international chef around world host intimate author dinner building success event gourmet galle introduced gourmet galle programme invite different international chef every weekend jan march host dinner masterclass event held boutique hotel along coast hikkaduwa tangalle chef lineup included james lowe lyles london tama carey lanka food jeremy lee cynthia shanmugalingam rambutan restaurant cookbook karan gokani hopper london mark hix rishi naleendra cloud kitchen sg paul flynn tannery restaurant mandy yin sambal shiok peter kuruvita galle literary festival festival programme gourmet galle