Franz Kafka | Saudha International Literature Festival

Saudha (www.saudha.org) is bringing a series of haunting performances of powerful literature from different languages and different cultural heritages and from both modern and ancient texts. The festival is happening all around the UK.

Curated by poet Ahmed Kaysher, the session at Poplar Union is celebrating the 100th death anniversary of Franz Kafka – the most influential literary genius of the last century through performances, playlets, talks that re-read as well as reinterpret his works with a new shade of light.

About the event
The event entails reading from the works of Kafka, re-interpreting his works from feminist and other political paradigms of the world through talks, a short playlet ‘the people of Kafkaesque universe’ and a photographic recreation of Kafka’s characters as well as a short film.

About Saudha
Saudha Society of Poetry and Indian Music (www.saudha.org) is a leading platform for South Asian as well other global classical arts. Saudha is critically acclaimed for its series of experimental productions merging poetry, music and painting seamlessly so that each can complement each other. Saudha attracted a diverse source of audiences from all different heritages through its series of presentations of mingling and bridging different arts from different corners of the world as the way of interpreting each other.

Saudha’s production Songs of Sringar and Seduction & Frida Kahlo Through Indian classical music at the Royal Albert Hall has been highly praised by prominent ethno-musicologists, music and literature connoisseurs of the city and beyond.

Saudha’s lyrics of Love at the SouthBank Centre and at Edinburgh Fringe and Chayanaut through Sebastian Bach at the House of Commons, Taste of Twilight at ICCR, Kolkata and the Welsh Parliament were critically acclaimed by major media and musicologists.

During Covid, Saudha took the first ever and historic initiative to connect leading musicians of the globe, writers, poets, painters and filmmakers from all across the world through social media platforms and the sessions were hugely appreciated by the audiences from all around the globe.