Himalayan Literature Festival and Writers Workshop 2026 Begins in Kathmandu

Kathmandu. The 'Himalayan Literature Festival and Writers Workshop 2026' has started in Kathmandu today. Prestigious poets, novelists, memoir writers, translators, filmmakers, scholars, journalists, and emerging writers from Nepal and various other countries are participating in the festival, which will run for eight days.

This year's festival, organized in collaboration with Ncell Foundation, is dedicated to the contribution of Nepali litterateur Guru Prasad Mainali. The program, which will run from May 29 to June 5, focuses on themes of healing, consciousness, creativity, memory, and cultural dialogue in a rapidly changing world.

The festival features master classes, workshops, keynote speeches, poetry readings, literary dialogues, film screenings, cultural tours, and interdisciplinary discussions on the transformative power of literature and art.

This edition includes Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Tracy K. Smith and Paul Muldoon, renowned novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz, poet and translator Tony Barnstone, Himalayan poet Yuyutsu Sharma, Irish literary editor Martin Doyle, and Brooklyn 'Poet Laureate' Tina Chang, among other literary personalities from Nepal, India, Ireland, Austria, Poland, America, and other countries.