Karachi February 2021: Urdu Sarai, Pakistan’s leading literary platform run entirely at Facebook, organized the country’s first Facebook Book Festival, with hundreds and thousands of bibliophiles, book lovers, knowledge seekers and over 50 publishers from across the country participated in a virtual book festival held in the second week of February 2021.
In the literary history of Pakistan, the event marked the first occasion book lovers of all ages came together online by the tens of thousands to celebrate reading and purchase books on a variety of literary, educational and entertaining subjects, said Gul-e-Rana Siddiqui, the chief organizer of the week-long programme.
The festival showcased more than 100 authors, writers and poets and covered the whole host of fiction and nonfiction genres. Among the leading publishers and book-houses which took active part on the occasion were: Ashiana Publications, Fazlee Sons, Lahore Kitab Ghar, Children Literary Society, Manshoorat, Hareem-e-Adab, Idarah-e-Batool, Darul Mushaf, and many others.
