Jaipur Literature Festival unveils the 2024 programme: A holistic mix of world literature connecting the world
Highlights:
Speakers list: Aarathi Prasad, Abhay K., Abhishek K. Choudhary, Aditi Maheshwari Goel, Ajai Chowdhry, Albert Read, Alka Pande, Ambika Anand, Amia Srinivasan, Amish, Amit Sen, Amod Kanth, Amrish Kumar, Amrit Mathur, Amrita Tripathi, Anand Neelakantan, Anant Goenka, Andrew Quintman, Angela Saini, Anil Aneja, Anirudh Kanisetti, Anish Gawande, Anitah Aujayeb, Anjan Sundaram, Anjum Hasan, Antony Loewenstein, Anuradha Sarma Pujari, Aparna Chandra, Arefa Tehsin, Arun Maira, Arunabha Ghosh, Arunava Sinha, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Asma Khan, B. Jeyamohan, Badri Narayan, Bee Rowlatt, Ben Macintyre, Bhavna Roy, Bhuchung D. Sonam, Bonnie Garmus, Brian A. Catlos, Bulbul Sharma, Charles Collier, Charles Glass, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Clare Wright, Colin Thubron, Daisy Rockwell, Damon Galgut, Daniel Hahn, David Veevers, Debashis Paul, Devdutt Pattanaik, Devika Rangachari, Devika Rege, Diana Evans, Divrina Dhingra, Eric Chopra, Felicity Volk, Firat Sunel, Gaea Schoeters, Ganesh V. Shivaswamy, Georgi Gospodinov, Guillermo Rodríguez, Gulzar, Gunbir Singh, Gurcharan Das, Gurnam Singh, Harish Trivedi, Hemali Sodhi, Hernan Diaz, Hervé Delphin, Ibrahim Waheed, Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, Imogen-Edward Jones, Indrajit Roy, Iti Rani Samanta, Ivy Ngeow, Jeff Goodell, Jerry Brotton, John Boyne, John Zubrzycki, Jonathan Bate, Josephine Quinn, Joya Chatterji, K. Srilata, Kai Bird, Kalpana Raina, Kamini Dandapani, Kanan Gill, Kannan Sundaram, Kanta Singh, Karen Anand, Katherine Rundell, Katherine Schofield, Katie Kitamura, Kelly Dorji, Koël Purie Rinchet, Koral Dasgupta, Krishna Ramanujan, Lakshmi Puri, Louise Kennedy, Louise Fowler-Smith, Luke Syson, Madan B. Lokur. Maithree Wickramasinghe, Malashri Lal, Malcolm Turnbull, Mandira Nayar, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Manju Kapur, Manoj Rupda, Marcus du Sautoy, Margaret Alva, Maria Goretti, Marta Breen, Mary Beard, Matthew Parker, Meeran Chadha Borwankar, Meru Gokhale, Merve Emre, Mmhonlumo Kikon, Mohit Satyanand, Monica Ali, Mridula Garg, Mridula Ramesh, Mrinal Pande, Mukesh Bansal, Mukund Padmanabhan, Najmi Waziri, Naman Ahuja, Namita Gokhale, Nancy Silberkleit, Narayani Basu, Naushad Forbes, Navdeep Suri, Naveen Kishore, Navin Chawla, Navtej Sarna, Neeraj Kumar, Neerja Birla, Neerja Chowdhury, Neha Hiranandani, Neha Kirpal, Nicholas Shakespeare, Nikhil J. Alva, Nilanjana S. Roy, Nirupama Kotru, Nirupama Singh Dar, Olesya Khromeychuk, Parakala Prabhakar, Pardis Mahdavi, Patrick Radden Keefe, Pavan Varma, Perumal Murugan, Peter Frankopan, Peter Moore, Philip Lutgendorf, Philip Stern, Philipp Ackermann, Pragya Tiwari, Pratinav Anil, Priyanka Khanna, Rachna Singh, Raghunath Mashelkar, Raghuram Rajan, Rahaab Allana, Raj Kamal Jha, Rajan Kashyap, Rajeev Bhargava, Rakhshanda Jalil, Rana Safvi, Ranjit Hoskote, Renu Roy, Reshma Ruia, Richard Osman, Robert Macfarlane, Robin Gupta, Roger Cohen, Rohit Lamba, Ruchira Gupta, S. Irfan Habib, S. Muralidhar, Sadhvi Bhagwati Saraswati, Safir Anand, Saksham Garg, Sam Miller, Sanjay Jha, Sanjoy K. Roy, Saras Manickam, Sarnath Banerjee, Satyarth Nayak, Seema Goswami, Seema Kohli, Sharmistha Mukherjee, Shashi Tharoor, Shekhar Seshadri, Shinie Antony, Shivani Sibal, Shivshankar Menon, Shombi Sharp, Shubhra Gupta, Shumona Sinha, Shyam Selvadurai, Siddarth Shrikanth, Simon Rowe, Sital Kalantry, Sohail Rekhy, Sohini Chattopadhyay, Somak Ghoshal, Somnath Batabyal, Suchitra Ramachandran, Sudha Murthy, Suhasini Haidar, Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, Susana Torres Prieto, Sushma Jansari, Sutapa Sikdar, Swapna Liddle, S.Y. Quraishi, Tania James, Tarana Husain Khan, Tarun K. Saint, Tarun Tahiliani, Tejaswini Apte-Rahm, V.R. Ferose, Varghese K. George, Vanessa R. Sasson, Vasamalli. K, Vaseem Khan, Veio Pou, Venkat Sundaram, Vikas Swarup, Vikramajit Ram, Vincent Brown, Vir Sanghvi, Vishal Bhardwaj, Vishnu Som, Vivek Shanbhag, William Dalrymple, Yascha Mounk, Yatindra Mishra, Yoko Tawada, Yuvan Aves, Zac O’Yeah
Themes for the 17th edition: Fiction & Non Fiction, Crime Fiction, Literary Criticism, History, Politics & Current Affairs, Poetry, Art & Culture, Translation, Graphic Novels, Gender, Science & Medicine, Food & Memory, Biographies & Memoir, Mythology, Spirituality and Religion, Mental Health, Fashion and Lifestyle, Law and Justice, Geopolitics, Sports, Climate Change, Environment & Climate Justice, Pet Parents, Pets & Animals, Cities, Literary Icons Through The Ages, Art & Architecture, Bollywood & Cinema, Economic
20th December 2023 – Anticipation is building for the seventeenth edition of the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival, scheduled to take place from 1st to 5th of February at Hotel Clarks Amer in the vibrant Pink City of Jaipur. In its annual celebration of literature, this ‘Kumbh of literature’ is set to host a stellar ensemble of writers, speakers, thinkers, and humanitarians, each contributing their unique perspective to the discourse. The Festival’s programme is a testament to its commitment to linguistic diversity, featuring a compelling array of 10 Indian languages and 7 international languages.
For its 2024 edition, the Festival will host over 250 speakers from across a vast array of nationalities, as well as recipients of major awards such as the Booker, International Booker, the Pulitzer, the Sahitya Akademi, Padma Shree, Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, Baillie Gifford, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, the JCB Prize for Literature and many more. Announced today, the programme will feature a range of themes including the Fiction & Non Fiction, Crime Fiction, Literary Criticism, History, Politics & Current Affairs, Poetry, Art & Culture, Translation, Graphic Novels, Gender, Science & Medicine, Food & Memory, Biographies & Memoir, Mythology, Spirituality and Religion, Mental Health, Fashion and Lifestyle, Law and Justice, Geopolitics, Sports, Climate Change, Environment & Climate Justice, Pet Parents, Pets & Animals, Cities, Literary Icons Through The Ages, Art & Architecture, Bollywood & Cinema, Economics amongst others.
For the highlight of the programme please refer to the Annexure 1. The full programme can be accessed on the website.
Sharing her thoughts on the programme, Namita Gokhale, writer, publisher, and Co-Director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, said, “The Jaipur Literature Festival brings the world to Jaipur and takes Jaipur to the world. It is our commitment to showcase Indian languages and writers and platform voices that represent the rich diversity of Indian literary traditions. From Sanskrit and Awadhi to Odiya, Asamiya and Bangla, from Tamil, Malayalam and Kannadiga, to Hindi, Rajasthani, Urdu and Punjabi, we present a spectrum of Indian languages and literary sensibilities. We have a special emphasis on Oral Traditions which explores expressions of indigenous and tribal voices and identity.”
“We also bring an interplay of world literatures across continents and cultures. The joyous multi-vocality and spontaneous cosmopolitanism of the Jaipur Literature Festival reflect in every aspect of our literary imagination and programming.” Gokhale mentioned.
Talking about the programme for the upcoming 17th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival, William Dalrymple, writer, historian and Co-Director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, said, “Every year we try and raise the bar at the Jaipur Literature Festival, but 2024 will be our finest festival yet. We are proud to present almost all the year’s most celebrated writers from around the world: the greatest novelists & poets, environmentalists and investigative journalists, historians and biographers, scientists and economists, artists and art historians, travel writers and humourists, literary critics and philosopher-feminists: a free-flowing gathering of great literary minds and extraordinary thinkers that is like a global super symposium or mega university opening its gates for anyone who wants to attend for five whole days for free. It is going to be utterly extraordinary and should on no account be missed!”
Sanjoy K. Roy, Managing Director of Teamwork Arts, producer of the Jaipur Literature Festival, said, “In 2024, the 17th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival focuses on themes including Literary Criticism, Science & Medicine, Environment & Climate Justice, Law and Justice, Mental Health, Geopolitics etc. A constellation of award-winning writers including luminaries like Damon Galgut, Mary Beard, Hernan Diaz, B. Jeyamohan, Simon Schama, Mridula Garg, and Marcus du Sautoy will headline the distinguished line-up.”
South Asia’s biggest publishing conclave, the prestigious Jaipur BookMark JBM), returns to the annual Jaipur Literature Festival with its tenth edition. JBM is a busy B2B segment of the Jaipur Literature Festival that focuses on the business of publishing and books. From ideas and conversations that sparkle to the serious business of selling rights, JBM is the open, business-friendly and creative space where publishers, authors, translators, editors, agents and bookstore owners meet and build relationships that lead to growth in business & trade. This year, the focus would be on emerging trends- AI, podcasts, micro-audio content, Indian-language publishing platforms; OTT and publishing; self- publishing; rewriting the rulebook in retail and marketing; the ecosystem of translation; educational and trade publishing: areas of common concern; and honouring stalwarts in Indian publishing etc. JBM will run from 1st to 5th January, parallel to Jaipur Literature Festival.
‘Friend of the Festival’ packages, that offer an exclusive experience with special hospitality, can be booked using this link: https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/friendsofthefestival-registration.
Media Registrations are now open, you can register with this link: https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/media-registration#/registration
For further information on the Festival, please visit: https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/
