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Living Tamil LitFest 2026: Tamil Literature goes to the diaspora
A New York literary festival organised by Jeyamohan’s readers seeks to reconnect young Tamil diaspora with a literary tradition their parents carried across the ocean but could not pass on.
AP News
Published : 7:02 PM EST, February 19, 2026
Living Tamil LitFest: Modern Tamil Literature on the World Stage
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, February 19, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / — New York City will host a historic milestone: the Living Tamil LitFest, the first global celebration dedicated to modern Tamil literature. Held at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine Conference Center, the festival brings the radical, evolving tradition of Tamil writing to an international audience in one of the world’s most cosmopolitan literary capitals.
Times Now News
Published : Feb 13, 2026, 15:38 IST
A Conversation With Jeyamohan On Tamil Literature, Translation, And What Changes When A Language Leaves Home
As Tamil literature prepares to enter a global conversation at the Living Tamil LitFest in New York, writer and thinker Jeyamohan reflects on language, tradition, translation, and what it means for a literary culture to travel. Ashutosh Kumar Thakur recently spoke to Jeyamohan.
By Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
One India News
Published :Sunday, February 8, 2026, 10:24 [IST]
At A New York Literary Gathering, A Classical Indian Language Makes A Contemporary Global Claim
NEW YORK, On Fifth Avenue, where institutions narrate the long memory of Western medicine, art, and learning, another archive of human experience will briefly take centre stage this spring. Inside the New York Academy of Medicine, on April 3 and 4, a language far older than the buildings that surround it will speak to the world not in reverence, but in conversation.
