Penang Institute Localises the George Town Literary Festival

By Lim Wan Phing

January 2025 FEATURE
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The GTLF team from Penang Institute.
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ALREADY FAMOUS FOR its street food and street art, Penang is determined to capture the word on the street too. That was the wordplay and theme for the 2024 instalment of George Town Literary Festival (GTLF). Held from 29 November to 1 December 2024, it aimed to capture the voice of the everyday man and woman living in cities.Writers, poets, historians, politicians, scholars, critics, musicians, curators and translators descended upon Gat Lebuh China, transforming it into a “GTLF village”, to...

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Lim Wan Phing

is a freelance writer based in Penang. She has a short story collection, Two Figures in a Car published by Penguin SEA.

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