Some good food and some one-on-one company with some of your favourite festival attendees? Get your hands on these intimate private affair events now for a curated gourmet experience with a maximum of 15 guests in private villas in Galle! 

Get ready to wine and dine with your favourite authors as they share their stories and experiences!

THURSDAY JANUARY 12TH 

· DAVID MACDONALD and DAWN BURNHAM
12:30 p.m - 2:00 p.m.

David Macdonald is the founder of Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit which is the largest and the best known world class academic centre for addressing the greatest threats to wildlife. He is known for his documentaries on wildlife. His documentary ‘Night of the Fox’ won the BAFTA for Best Documentary Film in 1976. 

Dawn Burnham is currently the Unit Manager and PA to Prof. David MacDonald at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit.  She has worked in Zambia on blue monkeys and has contributed to wildlife management plans. 

Please note: No liquor can be served because it is a Poya. Mocktails and Fruit juices will be served instead. Dawn Burnham’s travel is sponsored by SriLankan Airlines. 

FRIDAY JANUARY 13TH

· BRIGID KEENAN
12:30 p.m - 2:00 p.m

Brigid Keenan is an international bestselling author and a journalist. Her most recent book ‘Full Marks for Trying’ is a memoir of her childhood in India and her journey as a young fashion editor. She has worked as an editor for the Nova magazine, the Observer and the Sunday Times and is currently the Fashion Editor of Oldie Magazine.

· SARA WHEELER and ALISON WEARING  
12:30 p.m - 2:00 p.m. 

Alison Wearing is a Canadian writer and performer. Her book ‘Honeymoon in Purdah’ was an internationally acclaimed travel memoir published in seven countries. She was nominated for the RBC/Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction and was named one of the Top 50 Books of 2013 by Indigo Books.

Sara Wheeler is a prize winning non-fiction writer and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Contributing Editor of The Literary Review and a Trustee of The London Library. She was the winner of the Banff Adventure Travel Prize in 2009.

Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas is happy to be associated with Alison Wearing’s visit to the Festival. Her travel is sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts. Sara Wheeler’s travel is sponsored by SriLankan Airlines

SATURDAY JANUARY 14TH

· DINAH JEFFERIES
12:30 p.m - 2:00 p.m.

A bestselling author, Dinah has published 3 novels. Her novel The Tea Planter's Wife was named a Sunday Times number one bestseller. Her latest book, Before The Rains is due to be out in February 2017 and she is currently working on her fifth novel. 

Unilever Foods is happy to be associated with Dinah Jefferies’s visit to the Festival. Her travel is sponsored by Sri Lankan Airlines.

· CAROLINE COURTAULD and JENNIFER MURRAY
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

Caroline Courtauld is a writer, published photographer, and documentary film producer. Her widely acclaimed book The Forbidden City–The Great Within, was a companion book to a dramatized Discovery Channel documentary. Later, she was awarded an MBE for her leading work in the hospice care movement in Hong Kong.

Jennifer Murray is the first woman to pilot a helicopter around the word. An all rounder, she is the holder of several World Guinness Book Records for Aviation and the recipient of Britannia Trophy and International Harmon Trophy for Aviatrices. Her book, Now Solo (2002), tells the epic journey of her eighteen months of intensive preparation for her flight. 

Pics courtesy - galleliteraryfestival.com

Want to get yourself tickets for these exciting private affairs? 
Box office is now open!  Tickets  available online at www.mydeal.lk/fairway-glf-2017 or at the box offices mentioned below;
 

Colombo - 740 Galle Road, Bambalapitiya. 
Hotline number 0717 040011, 
 

Galle - 25, Leyn Baan Street Galle Fort 
Hotline Number 0717 020011

Open Mon - Fri (9-6.30pm) , Sat (9-5pm)​​
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