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Jaipur Literature Festival to be held from Jan 19 to 23 at Hotel Clarks
The sixteenth edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) will be held between January 19-23 at Hotel Clarks, Amer, Jaipur.
The sixteenth edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) will be held between January 19-23 at Hotel Clarks, Amer, Jaipur.
The Festival will offer a representation of prominent Indian languages and multiple foreign languages with sessions spread across 5 venues with over 250 speakers.
The first list of 25 speakers released today includes winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah; Sahitya Akademi awardee, Hindi poet, translator and writer of Aienasaaz, Anamika; author of the recent Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World, Anthony Sattin; DSC Prize shortlisted Sri Lankan author Ashok Ferrey; one of India's highest-selling English fiction writers Ashwin Sanghi; Naga writer Avinuo Kire whose latest novel is Where the Cobbled Path Leads; the first mixed-race woman author to win the Booker Prize for her Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo; the two-time Booker Prize shortlisted Chigozie Obioma; translator of the International Booker winner novel Ret Samadhi/Tomb of Sand, Daisy Rockwell; celebrated Indian actress, director and writer Deepti Naval.
The list continues with Booker Prize-winning British novelist Howard Jacobson; Mumbai-based poet, novelist, short story writer, translator & well-known journalist Jerry Pinto; author of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award longlisted book Intimacies, Katie Kitamura; distinguished mathematics professor and author of The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math, Manil Suri; Prize-winning author of the bestselling books The Written World and The Language of Thieves, Martin Puchner; Turkish-American author, academic, and literary critic Merve Emre; 2022 Booker Prize shortlisted author of Glory, NoViolet Bulawayo; Indian writer, blogger and translator Rana Safvi; Booker-nominated American-Canadian author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki.
