Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Galle Literary Festival is an international literary festival held annually in Galle, Sri Lanka. In recent years the profile of the festival has increased substantially, with attendances by many internationally acclaimed and well-known writers. In 2012 the title sponsor of the festival has been HSBC.The festival was founded in 2005 by Anglo-Australian hotelier Geoffrey Dobbs, and some of the writers who have atteneded the festival include D.J. Taylor and Roshi Fernando., Sashi Tharoor, Shayam Selvadurai etc.However in 2011 the festival hit a set back when a number respected writers inclduding Kiran Dessai and Novel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk boycotted the event to protest against the Sri Lankan Government's alleged involvement in attacks on journalists and writers.,The festival was not held in 2013 because of the ill-health of Geoffrey DobbsAs at January 2014 the future of the festival is in doubt, following the deportation of Geoffrey Dobbs from Sri Lanka.. }
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- Galle_Literary_Festival abstract "The Galle Literary Festival is an international literary festival held annually in Galle, Sri Lanka. In recent years the profile of the festival has increased substantially, with attendances by many internationally acclaimed and well-known writers. In 2012 the title sponsor of the festival has been HSBC.The festival was founded in 2005 by Anglo-Australian hotelier Geoffrey Dobbs, and some of the writers who have atteneded the festival include D.J. Taylor and Roshi Fernando., Sashi Tharoor, Shayam Selvadurai etc.However in 2011 the festival hit a set back when a number respected writers inclduding Kiran Dessai and Novel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk boycotted the event to protest against the Sri Lankan Government's alleged involvement in attacks on journalists and writers.,The festival was not held in 2013 because of the ill-health of Geoffrey DobbsAs at January 2014 the future of the festival is in doubt, following the deportation of Geoffrey Dobbs from Sri Lanka.".