Over 300 writers, poets and lyricists will attend the three-day 5th Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) beginning here on June 8.
The KLF will be inaugurated by Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, KLF founder and director, Rashmi Ranjam Parida said.
Eminent literary figures including Pavan Varma, Nirupama Rao, Amish Tripathy, Pratibha Ray and Pratibha Satpathy will join the inaugural session.
Padmaj Pal, Amish Tripathy and Nirupama Rao will receive the prestigious Kalinga Literary Awards of 2018 for the world standard inspiring work in the literary and professional world, he said.
Young writers and poets from several districts of Odisha will receive Kalinga Literary Youth Awards for their excellence in literary fields.
Parida said the three-day festival will see more than 300 writers, poets, lyricists, journalists and public intellectuals speaking on the idea of a just society and how literature reflect this through the ideas of equality, equity and humanity.
As part of the event, mystic Kalinga multi-lingual poetry sessions will see many senior poets reading poetry in different languages including that of Odia, Hindi, English and Bengali among others.