The world’s biggest literary show, the Jaipur Literature Festival, returns to its cherished home, Jaipur. Scheduled to run from 19-23 January, 2023, at Hotel Clarks, Amer, it will celebrate literature, books, and ideas in the Pink City. Marking its 16th year, the iconic festival will showcase a plethora of themes and writers curated specially for its loyal community of audiences from across the world, offering an immersive experience of literature, discourse, musical performances, art installations, merchandise, local cuisine and more. The festival will offer a representation of all Indian national languages and multiple foreign languages with sessions spread across five venues with over 250 speakers. Just like every year, the literary extravaganza will feature a unique programme for its 2023 edition covering Fiction, Non-Fiction, Food, History, Current Affairs and Politics, AI and Technology, Translations, Poetry, Adaptations and Music, Language, Climate Crisis, Literature Noir, Identity, Medicine and Health, Cryptocurrency and Economy.

The Kumbh of literature returns to the heart of Jaipur with a caravan of writers and thinkers, bestselling authors and humanitarians, to rejoice in the power and potential of the written word. This year, it will feature names like Abdulrazak Gurnah, Anamika, Anthony Sattin, Ashok Ferrey, Ashwin Sanghi, Avinuo Kire, Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma, Daisy Rockwell, Deepti Naval, Howard Jacobson, Jerry Pinto, Manil Suri, Katie Kitamura, Martin Puchner, Merve Emre, NoViolet Bulawayo, Rana Safvi, Ruth Ozeki, Sathnam Sanghera, Shehan Karunatilaka, Tanuj Solanki, Vauhini Vara, Vincent Brown and Vir Sanghvi.

HIGHLIGHTS

·         Festival Dates – The Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 is scheduled to take place from 19-23 January 2022 at the Hotel Clarks, Amer, Jaipur, Rajasthan.

· Registration and Delegate Package- Online registration for the festival is mandatory and attendees can register via the festival website. Visitors can also book the ‘Friend of the Festival’ package to experience the festival’s magic, while interacting with selected authors and influencers, relaxing in the well-appointed Delegate Lounge, attending the Jaipur Music Stage and the Heritage Evening.

 About Jaipur Literature Festival:

Described as the “greatest literary show on Earth”, the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted over 5,000 speakers and artists 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 and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.

Writers and festival directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside producer Teamwork Arts, invite speakers to take part in the five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan’s stunning cultural heritage.

Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates J M Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk, Malala Yousafzai, Muhammad Yunus and Joseph Stiglitz; Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Douglas Stuart, Margaret Atwood and Paul Beatty; Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M T Vasudevan Nair, as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U R Ananthamurthy; along with literary superstars, including Amish Tripathi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Vikram Seth.

An annual event that goes beyond literature, the festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, former President of India, the late A P J Abdul Kalam, Bill Gates, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Oprah Winfrey, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.

The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces it along with over 25 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts, and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally.