Japan's First International Literary Festival Opens March 1st

12 February 2013
Japan's First International Literary Festival Opens March 1st
Date: 1 - 3 March 2013

The Tokyo International Literary Festival, which will hold from March 1st until the 3rd, will be Japan's first international literary festival. The roster of writers include Junot Diaz, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008, Nobel Prize for Literature recipient J. M. Coetzee, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Motoyuki Shibata, Hiroki Azuma, Natsuki Ikezawa, and Mitsuyo Kakuta.

There will be literary talks, readings, and workshops at the Masaru Ibuka Memorial Hall of Waseda University and the University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus. Other events are scheduled at Roppongi Hills and the International House of Japan.


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Website: http://tokyolitfest.com/
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