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The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 will host a special strand of programming curated by Zubaan Books, the pioneering independent feminist publishing house and one of the festival’s longest-standing partners. Four online panels — on literary translation, writing from the Northeast, the landmark Poster Women archive, and food as a...
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The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 will host Kintsugi of Chronotopal Schisms through Contemporary Literature, a keynote by author and scholar Dr. Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque. The session airs at the festival’s seventh edition, August 13–15, 2026, on Ananke’s YouTube channel and across its social media platforms. Dr. Haque also...
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The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 will host Decolonizing Trauma, a keynote talk by academic and author Giti Chandra, Associate Research Professor with the Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (GEST) in Reykjavik. The session airs at the festival’s seventh edition, August 13–15, 2026, on Ananke’s YouTube channel and across...
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The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 is delighted to announce that Readomania, the New Delhi-based independent publishing house, returns as a curating partner for the festival’s seventh edition with a strand of three panels featuring twelve authors, poets, translators, and scholars from across India. The sessions will air August 13–15,...
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Sonakshi Srivastava is a senior writing fellow (ELT) at Ashoka University, the translations editor at Usawa Literary Review, and an educational arm assistant at Asymptote. Her writings have generously been supported by the PEN English x SALT Translation Grant, 2024 ASLE Translation Grant, Poetry HUES Foundation, Director’s Fellowship (Martha’s...
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Editorial Note: Republished from the original AnankeWLF site. Stay tuned for our new website and upcoming details on the Ananke Literature Festival. Born in 1965 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Myriam Tadessé has lived in Paris since 1978. She studied theatre, philosophy, dance, music, and internal martial arts. An actress...
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Editorial Note: Republishing Review of Naveen Kishore’s Book of Poetry Knotted Grief from old AnankeWLF website. New website and information about Ananke Literature Festival Coming Soon. Meditative pauses, abrupt halts, soulful variations, and metaphoric juxtapositions weave the lilting fabric of lyricism that makes up Knotted Grief. More than a book...
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Dubai, UAE: Dubai-based publisher, The Dreamwork Collective, has launched a powerful new novel confronting the complexities of adult friendship against the backdrop of childhood trauma. Written by acclaimed author, Safinah Danish Elahi, Chasing Shadows in Borrowed Light, explores how the past can continue to shape lives, long after relationships...
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There is, at the heart of The Tree, the Well & the Drag Queen (Red River Press, 2026), a trembling proposition: that inheritance is not land or memory, but a rehearsed, enforced, and, occasionally, resisted script. In this slender yet resonant novella, Salini Vineeth conjures a world where myth...
The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 will host a special strand of programming curated by Zubaan Books, the pioneering independent feminist publishing house and one of the festival’s longest-standing partners. Four online panels — on literary translation, writing from the Northeast, the landmark Poster Women archive, and food as a...
The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 will host Kintsugi of Chronotopal Schisms through Contemporary Literature, a keynote by author and scholar Dr. Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque. The session airs at the festival’s seventh edition, August 13–15, 2026, on Ananke’s YouTube channel and across its social media platforms. Dr. Haque also...
The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 will host Decolonizing Trauma, a keynote talk by academic and author Giti Chandra, Associate Research Professor with the Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (GEST) in Reykjavik. The session airs at the festival’s seventh edition, August 13–15, 2026, on Ananke’s YouTube channel and across...
The Ananke Literature Festival 2026 is delighted to announce that Readomania, the New Delhi-based independent publishing house, returns as a curating partner for the festival’s seventh edition with a strand of three panels featuring twelve authors, poets, translators, and scholars from across India. The sessions will air August 13–15,...
Sonakshi Srivastava is a senior writing fellow (ELT) at Ashoka University, the translations editor at Usawa Literary Review, and an educational arm assistant at Asymptote. Her writings have generously been supported by the PEN English x SALT Translation Grant, 2024 ASLE Translation Grant, Poetry HUES Foundation, Director’s Fellowship (Martha’s...
Editorial Note: Republished from the original AnankeWLF site. Stay tuned for our new website and upcoming details on the Ananke Literature Festival. Born in 1965 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Myriam Tadessé has lived in Paris since 1978. She studied theatre, philosophy, dance, music, and internal martial arts. An actress...
Editorial Note: Republishing Review of Naveen Kishore’s Book of Poetry Knotted Grief from old AnankeWLF website. New website and information about Ananke Literature Festival Coming Soon. Meditative pauses, abrupt halts, soulful variations, and metaphoric juxtapositions weave the lilting fabric of lyricism that makes up Knotted Grief. More than a book...
Dubai, UAE: Dubai-based publisher, The Dreamwork Collective, has launched a powerful new novel confronting the complexities of adult friendship against the backdrop of childhood trauma. Written by acclaimed author, Safinah Danish Elahi, Chasing Shadows in Borrowed Light, explores how the past can continue to shape lives, long after relationships...
There is, at the heart of The Tree, the Well & the Drag Queen (Red River Press, 2026), a trembling proposition: that inheritance is not land or memory, but a rehearsed, enforced, and, occasionally, resisted script. In this slender yet resonant novella, Salini Vineeth conjures a world where myth...
