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Living Tamil LitFest to take place in NYC
The event aims to highlight the variety of Tamil writing through a series of discussions, readings, and cultural exchanges.
The Living Tamil LitFest 2026, an initiative organized by the Vishnupuram Literary Circle (VLC) to bring contemporary Tamil literary works to a global audience, is set to take place in New York City on April 3 and April 4.
Living Tamil LitFest to be held in New York will bring renowned literary figures from around the world
The Vishnupuram Literary Circle, USA, along with the Vishnupuram Literary Circle Tamil Nadu, is organizing an event in New York titled the Living Tamil LitFest, scheduled to take place on April 3 and 4, 2026. This initiative is organized by Jeyamohan, a renowned Tamil literary writer from Tamil Nadu known worldwide, organizers said.
They expect some 300 attendees from various backgrounds according to the website livingtamillitfest.org/.
An estimated 50 scholars, authors, poets, translators and publishers will get together in 15 sessions over the 2 days at the Education and Conference Center, The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM). Together, they will explore how Tamil literature engages with modernity, social justice, identity, and the human condition—while continually reinventing itself for new generations, the press release said.
Malaysian Tamil writers to attend ‘Living Tamil LitFest’ in New York
To introduce modern Tamil literature into the global spotlight, a literary program titled ‘Living Tamil LitFest’ will be held on April 3rd and 4th in New York, United States. This initiative is organised by Jeyamohan, a renowned Tamil literary writer from Tamil Nadu known worldwide. The program was organised in collaboration with the Vishnupuram Literary Organisation of America. Film actor Kamal Haasan and film director Mani Ratnam have also been appointed as ambassadors for the event.
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.
