George Town
Literary Festival
27-29 November 2026

Cities are more than points on a map.
More than borders, skylines, or statistics.
They are crossings.

Crossings of languages and faiths.
Of labour and longing.
Of memory and possibility.

A cosmopolis is not a polished global hub —
it is a lived condition.

A place where difference is ordinary.
Where strangers learn how to dwell together.
Where histories overlap, rather than replace one another.

At a time of hardened borders and policed identities,
Cosmopolises asks how shared worlds are still made

through literature, translation, history, and foodways
as coexistence: daily, unfinished, and profoundly human.

The 16th edition of
George Town Literary Festival returns
27-29 November 2026.

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