The Lahore Literary Festival (LLF), one of South Asia’s premier cultural events, returns to Asia Society New York, exploring contemporary Pakistan through artists, writers, and other experts. The festival will present American audiences with a more nuanced view of Pakistan, with discussions on fiction and nonfiction writing, art, science, history, and politics.

LLF 2025 brings Lahore and New York together with a vibrant selection of lyrical, literary and musical offerings: speakers this year include Manan Ahmed, Iftikhar Dadi, Qudsia Rahim, Yasufumi Nakamori, Ustad Naseeruddin Saami and more. The program also features a poetry session with this year’s Pakistan Youth Poet Laureates, Mashallah Saif and Aiman Tahir Khan.