Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters
The Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters is an annual literary festival that takes place in the Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. It was founded in 2018 and is organised by the Mathrubhumi newspaper group. The inaugural edition of the festival happened over three days from February 2 to February 4, 2018. Owing to the good response, the second edition of the festival was extended by a day and it took place from January 31 to February 3, 2019. The third edition of the festival is scheduled to commence on January 30, 2020.
In 2019 it was announced that a "Book of the Year" Literary Award "to honour and celebrate the best in Indian literature", would presented for the first time at the 2020 festival, with a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh being given to the best work of fiction published in English.
