Literary festival celebrating crime writing to debut in Bengaluru
Bengaluru is set to host its first literary festival dedicated to crime writing, named Dead Write. The festival aims to explore the intrigue of crime literature and features a lineup of notable speakers, including authors and former police officials. Organizers hope to expand this genre-focused initiative in the future, inspired by successful international crime festivals.
- ▪Dead Write is a new literary festival in Bengaluru focused exclusively on crime writing.
- ▪The festival features a lineup of crime fiction writers, journalists, and police officials.
- ▪Organizers aim to expand their offerings beyond the flagship Bangalore Literature Festival.
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As a genre, crime writing, whether it be fiction or true crime, brings in much more intrigue than any other type of writing, believes Srikrishna Ramamoorthy. “I specifically use the word intrigue because after you’ve read something, you often find it so hard to believe that someone would have gone to those lengths to do those things,” says the Bengaluru-based venture capital investor and co-founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF).Crime writing, therefore, was an “obvious choice” to kickstart BLF’s foray into a genre festival, with Dead Write, a literary festival dedicated exclusively to crime writing, debuting in the city this weekend.“This has been something that has been on our minds for a while,” says Srikrishna, pointing out that with BLF now entering its 15th year, “we…
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