News Notes
The Jaipur Literature Festival 2024 will be held between February 1–5, 2024, with its characteristic flavor, substance, and scale, bringing together writers, readers, connoisseurs, influencers, and thinkers.
During the past 16 years the festival has become a global literary phenomenon, having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Every year, the festival brings together a diverse mix of the world’s greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.
Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates J.M. Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk and Muhammad Yunus, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Margaret Atwood and Paul Beatty, Sahitya Akademi winners Girish Karnad, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary superstars including Amish Tripathi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Vikram Seth.
The annual festival goes beyond literature and has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.
International editions of JLF now travel to the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Maldives and now Spain.
The festival is filled with speakers, insightful sessions, readings, music, and book signings and the simultaneously held Jaipur BookMark and Jaipur Music Stage.
For more details, visit jaipurliteraturefestival.org.
