Dehradun Literature Festival

The Dehradun Literature Festival is an annual literary festival held annually in Dehradun, India, founded by Samraant Virmani, an Indian social worker.

History
It was founded in 2016 by Samraant Virmani, He took this initiative to bring exposure to the Doon valley which happens to be his hometown. Author Ruskin Bond is the brand ambassador of Dehradun Literature Festival.

2017 Edition
The 2017 edition of the two-day Dehradun Literature Festival commenced at the ONGC Officers Club, Dehradun. The 2017 inaugural curtain raiser of Dehradun Literature Festival Shobhaa De, who launched Karan Johar's book The Unsuitable Boy.

Participants
The following authors and literary personalities participated in the 2017 Dehradun Literary Festival.


 * Shobhaa De
 * Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
 * Suchitra Krishnamoorthi
 * Piyush Mishra
 * Kiran Manral
 * Rakhshanda Jalil
 * Dr. Bijaylaxmi Nanda
 * Divya Prakash Dubey
 * Ashok Chakradhar
 * Hridayesh Joshi
 * Laxmi Pant
 * Sushil Bahuguna
 * Trepan Singh Chauhan
 * Rajshekhar
 * Sumrit Shahi
 * Anuj Tiwari
 * Savi Sharma
 * Mona Verma

2018 Edition
In January 2018, the curtain raiser of the 2nd season saw the attendance of Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha along with the writer of his biography Anything but Khamosh Bharathi Pradhan who is a film critic and a writer.