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Indonesian writers, Sapardi Joko Damono, Goenawan Mohamad and young writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu will become three speakers at the George Town Literary Festival-GTLF which is scheduled to return on November 21-24 in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. Malaysia's largest annual international literary event will reflect the last 100 years of world literature. Other well-known writers who are also scheduled to be the keynote speakers of the event are the prestigious literary award winner, Man Booker International Prize 2019, Jokha Alharti, winner of the 2019 EBRD Literature Prize, Hamid Ismailov, Japanese poet, Hiromi Ito, essayist and intellectual writer, Eliot Weinberger, writer Djiboutian-French, Abdourahman Waberi, and contemporary Chinese poet, Xi Chuan, and historian of modern China, Rebecca E. Karl.

Last year's GLTF featured up to 64 shows and was attended by more than 6,000 participants. This year, GTLF presents conversations, panel discussions, readings, performances, film screenings, and workshops and other activities. For the first time, the festival also holds weekly creative workshops for students every Saturday from October 5 to 26 in libraries throughout the city, with themes related to creative writing, screenplay writing for films and poetry.

The George Town Literary Festival (GTLF) is the world's largest literary festival held in Malaysia and the first literary event in Southeast Asia to receive the Literature Festival Award at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards. GTLF celebrates world literature, translation and literary arts, with various writers, artists and thinkers from various locations and disciplines gathering together each year to engage in intellectual discourse. This festival usually takes place every last weekend in November. Entry to the festival is free of charge for all members of the community.