Kathmandu, May 18 -- The Himalayan Literature Festival and Writers' Workshop is happening from May 29 to June 5 at the Malla Hotel. It is organised by poet and journalist Yuyutsu Sharma in collaboration with The Prodigy Project.

With more than 75 writers from all over the globe, the theme for this year's festival is 'Ecstasy, Healing and Creative Writing in the New World Order'.

The faculty for the festival includes a wide range of novelists, journalists and scholars. From Tracy K Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, to Paul Muldoon, whom the Times Literary Supplement named the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War and a Pulitzer laureate, the festival's faculty bring...