The 13th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), also known as Kumbha Mela of Literature, will begin in the city on Thursday, January 23.
The five-day festival, to be held from January 23 to January 27 at the Diggi Palace Hotel in Jaipur, will have over 250 speakers, including Pulitzer winners Forrest Gander and Stephen Greenblatt, 2010 Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson, Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and renowned author Elizabeth Gilbert.
This year, besides poetry and fiction/nonfiction, the festival intends to discuss important topics such as
Namita Gokhale, writer, publisher and co-director of Jaipur Literature Festival said: “Every year, we have various authors from different parts of the world, representing different nationalities and languages in attendance at the Festival. This year, once again, we have
According to the producer of JLF Sonjoy Roy, the festival is more about the
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