Hyderabad Literary Festival
Hyderabad Literary Festival (HLF) is an annual event that celebrates creativity in all its forms. HLF is a multi-genre, multidisciplinary, and multilingual event that features nearly 300 authors, artistes, academics, media professionals, independent scholars, public intellectuals, and science communicators from India and abroad each year.
Started in 2010, the festival has emerged as an unmissable event in the city’s and country’s cultural calendar. It represents the rich and cosmopolitan ethos of the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, as well as the vibrant spirit of modern Cyberabad.
The Festival is FREE and open to ALL HLF 2026
HLF 2026 is organised by “Hyderabad Literary Trust”, a registered non-profit organisation, with the support of the state government, several literary and cultural organisations, and publishing houses. For the third successive year, Sattva Knowledge City, HITEC City, will be the venue of HLF 2026.
Register for HLF 2026 as a Visitor to get updates on the festival.
HLF 2024
HLF Directors
Amita R Desai
Festival Director
Amita R Desai
Festival Director
B Kinnera Murthy
Festival Director
B Kinnera Murthy
Festival DirectorDr B Kinnera Murthy is a strategy consultant, director on corporate boards and academic governing councils, national council member of professional organisations, and founder of a women support NGO, among others. Since her superannuation in 2012 from the Administrative Staff College of India, where she held the posts of dean and professor of strategic management. She is also associated with Moving Images and Apna Watan. She is a director of the Hyderabad Literary Festival.
Tejah Balantrapu
Festival Director
Tejah Balantrapu
Festival DirectorTejah Balantrapu is Associate Director for Science, Health Data, and Storytelling at the L V Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad. He has a Master’s in Communications from the University of Hyderabad and has worked to promote awareness of vision loss in global policy networks for two decades. He is also an active member of the Nature Lovers of Hyderabad, an informal group of tree enthusiasts in the city.
Usha Raman
Festival Director
Usha Raman
Festival DirectorDr Usha Raman is a writer and media studies scholar based in Hyderabad. Her writing, which spans the academic and the popular, has appeared in multiple media outlets and includes three co-edited volumes and a co-authored book. She edits a magazine for schoolteachers, Teacher Plus. She has published a collection of poetry, All the Spaces in Between (Writers Workshop, 2009), and her debut novel, Polite Conversations (BEE Books), was published in 2024.
Vijay Kumar Tadakamalla
Festival Director
Vijay Kumar Tadakamalla
Festival DirectorDr Vijay Kumar Tadakamalla currently teaches literatures in English at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad. Formerly, he was Professor and Head, Department of English, and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Osmania University, Hyderabad. His publications include critical studies: Indian Languages in the Diaspora (2021), English and Other International Languages (2018), and translations from Telugu: The Liberation of Sita (2016, 2018) by Volga and Kanyasulkam (2002) by Gurajada Venkata Appa Rao. He is TEDx speaker and a Founder Editor of Muse India: the literary ejournal.
Festival Committee
Patron
K T Rama Rao
Hon’ble Minister for IT E&C, MA&UD and Industries & Commerce Departments, Government of Telangana
Chair
Jayesh Ranjan, IAS
Special Chief Secretary, Youth Advancement, Tourism, Culture, and Sports Department, Government of Telangana
Members
Anuradha Reddy
Bashir Babu Khan
Dr. C Rammanohar Reddy
GV Prasad
MA Faiz Khan
Masiuddin Ahmed
Nandini Rao
Veenakamlapally Rani
Dr. YV Reddy
Core Group
Working Group
E Sandeep
Nikhil Nalla
Padma PVL
Malini Siruguri (Festival Coordinator)
Support HLF!
Hyderabad Literary Festival 2026
3 days, 150+ events, 300+ speakers, 100000+ visitors …
Endless fun!
HLF is your Festival. It is the city’s Festival.
Support HLF through donations! Donate generously and make HLF happen and remain a free-entry festival.
* Donations are eligible for tax deduction under 80G.
Contact
Email Id
hello@hydlitfest.org
Address
Hyderabad Literary Festival
C/o Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad
20, Journalist Colony
Road No. 3, Banjara Hills
Hyderabad 500034.
The Festival is FREE and
open to ALL.
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