The iconic annual Jaipur Literature Festival will be held from 19th to 23rd January 2023 at Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur. Now in its 16th year, the festival brings together writers, speakers, thinkers and humanitarians from all walks of life.
The literary festival boasts linguistic diversity with programs presenting 20 Indian languages and 14 international languages.
JLF 2023 – (left to right) Sanjoy K. Roy, Namita Gokare and William Dalrymple at Curtain Lazer, Delhi. Photo credit: JLF
Sanjoy K Roy, managing director of Teamwork Arts, producer of the Jaipur Literature Festival, said the Jaipur Literature Festival is a platform for disseminating knowledge and presenting different perspectives on complex contemporary issues. said.
“The 2023 Festival will focus on themes such as the climate crisis, geopolitics, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, India-China relations, agriculture and energy. Great writers will be hosted: Laureate Abdulrazak Gurna, International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree, Booker Prize winner Shehan Karnatilaka, Marlon James, Bernardine Evaristo, Howard Jacobson, Booker Prize finalist Noviolet Bulawayo, Women of the Year winner Ruth Ozeki and more.”
In the 2023 edition, the festival will bring together 250 people of various nationalities, as well as winners of major awards such as the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, International Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Sahitia Academy Prize, Baillie Gifford Prize and PEN America Prize. Host more than one speaker. Literary Award, DSC Award for South Asian Literature, JCB Award for Literature, etc.
Sanjoy K Roy, managing director of Teamwork Arts, producer of the Jaipur Literature Festival, said the Jaipur Literature Festival is a platform for disseminating knowledge and presenting different perspectives on complex contemporary issues. said. Photo credit: JLF
Some of the world’s great minds, including Nobel laureate and celebrated author Abdul Razak Gurna, have met with British publishing legend Alexandra Pringle and a man entitled ‘The Essential Abdul Razak Gurna’. I will be speaking at a panel discussion.
William Dalrymple, author, historian and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, said, “Each year we try to raise the bar for the annual Jaipur Literature Festival, but 2023 is arguably the best yet. Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Sahitia Academy Prize, Baillie Gifford Prize, National Book Award, Women of the Year Award and more.
In a story that celebrates the Middle East’s pluralist past, civilian diplomat, journalist and author Michael Vatikiotis traces the history of a family caught in the clash of beliefs and identities. Lives Between Lines tells the story of life under the Ottoman Empire, where communities of different creeds and origins thrived. In his session, Vaticiotis spoke with historian and festival co-director William Dalrymple, who introduced the audience through his ancestral history as an ode to the once tolerant and harmonious Middle East. To do.
A range of topics will be covered, including the ongoing climate justice debate under the theme of the urgency of borrowed time. Female voices and identities, crime fiction, memoirs, translations, poetry, economics, technoethics, artificial intelligence, global crisis in agriculture, Russian-Ukrainian conflict, British imperial violence, greats focused on mutilation Women Writers and Artists Edge Science, India at 75, Partitions, Geopolitics, Art and Photography, Health and Medicine, and more.
Namita Gokhale, Writer, Publisher and Co-Director of Jaipur Literature Festival said: International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree and her English translator Daisy Rockwell will be in attendance, along with Sri Lankan author and Booker Prize winner Shehan Karnatilaka. Our programs are always at the forefront of new voices across languages and cultures, from geopolitics, history, religion and spirituality, prose, poetry, and polemic discourse to planetary concerns, crime writing, and detective fiction. , to psychological thrillers. ‘. Jaipur BookMark is also back on the ground to review its publishing prospects. ”
Booker Prize-winning Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir, Manifesto: Never Give Up, tells the story of her life as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought for decades to bring her creative work to the world. and inspiring description of the career. At the festival, Evaristo will sit down with journalist and author Nandini Nair to present her reimagined memoir and the essential manual for her creativity, activism and reinvention.
Each year, the festival brings together a diverse mix of the world’s greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders and entertainers on a single stage to express and participate in thoughtful debate and dialogue. advocating.Photo: Connect with India
While moderating another session at the festival, Nair will be conducting a panel discussion with Booker Prize-winning author Shehan Karnatilaka on The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Serious risk of collective amnesia.
In a separate session, 2022 Baillie Gifford Award winner Katherine Randell will join scholar and author Nandini Das on the illustrious biography of John Donne, the poet of love, sex and death.
The list follows a panel discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Caroline Elkins, who leads the audience through her enlightening and authoritative book Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire.
Bibek Debroy was a noted scholar and translator who made many previously inaccessible Sanskrit texts available to readers in English. Apart from his erudition and vast research output, he is also a reputed economist and chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Board. During the session, Debroy sat down with his Sahitya Akademi laureate and festival co-director, Namita Gokhale, to talk about the complex layers of wisdom and learning contained in prana, discussing his latest Brahma of his prana. Special mention is made of the English translation.
India’s relationship with China has seen many ups and downs: from the war of 1962 to the peace that was sustained by negotiations in the 90s leading to the recent turmoil and unrest. In a session, journalist and author Manoj Joshi understands the border between India and China: Tracing the brutal situation of the LAC and the impact of its ‘ambiguity’ amid the persistent threat of war in the High Himalayas To do. During the session, Joshi will meet with former Foreign Minister Vijay Gokhale, former Ambassador of China, Myanmar, Indonesia and Nepal and former Foreign Minister Shyam Saran to discuss rising tensions in the unresolved LAC and what it means for the region. discuss what With journalist and foreign policy expert Suhasini Haidar.
The digital world should be mastered, not abandoned. Tech-savvy writers Nandan Nilekani and Tanuji Bhojwani share with readers the secrets to using electronic devices to their advantage without losing mental peace or physical fitness. The duo had conversations with publishers, Penguin Random House and Meru Gokhale, where they discussed the flow of information that floods our screens, and how they’re going to do it in mindful/”bitful” sorts in ways that are key to their success. Discuss whether you can control the method.
This year’s festival will feature a panel discussion featuring International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree and a session on Ret Samadhi: Tomb with translator Daisy Rockwell and Sahitia Akademi Yuba Pluskar winner Tanuji Solanki. Celebrate linguistic and literary diversity like never before by doing. Sandy.
The festival will feature great novelists such as Marlon James and Ruth Ozeki, as well as Anna Keey, Jonathan Friedland, Rebecca Ragg Sykes, David Wenglow, David Laubenheimer, Luke Harding and Alex. • Great non-fiction writers such as Renton are also featured. Anthony Bieber, Orlando Figes, Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Mikhail Zigger, Sasnam Sangela, Merlin Sheldrake, Tansen Sen, Vincent Brown, Chris Manjapura, Miranda Seymour, David Orthoga, Edmund Sheldrake De Waal, Katie Hickman, Anthony Satin, Anita Anand and others.
The prestigious Jaipur BookMark returns for its 9th annual Jaipur Literature Festival. Publishers, editors, literary agents, writers, translators and bookstores from all over the world. This year’s focus will be on the world of translation and children’s publishing. Additionally, there are sessions on podcasts, queer writing, formats such as ebooks and audiobooks, books focused on the mind, body, and spirit, book awards, and more.
Each year, the festival brings together a diverse mix of the world’s greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders and entertainers on a single stage to express and participate in thoughtful debate and dialogue. advocating.
