Jaipur Literature Fest 2017: What’s in the Store This Time?

Literature is the world which speaks louder than all the swords and the chaos. Where the language meets the best creative minds and the smart intellects and then ‘penned’ on those crisp white pages which feels so soft and knowledgeable in your hands. Anyone would love a hot cup of mocha in those bellowing windy weather with a novel keeping you company. Much is the extravagance of the famous Jaipur Literature Fest!

This January, Jaipur Literature Fest would be celebrating its 10^th anniversary, being held from 19^th to 23^rd January 2017, at Diggi Palace, Jaipur.

People visiting JLF 2017

Let’s quench our curiosity and know all those creative people who would be visiting the literature fest this time.

Name of the Author	Designation	Novels Published
Roy Foster	He is an Irish historian and academic. He is the Carroll Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, Oxford in the UK.	He has written many early biographies.
Margo Jefferson	She is a former theatre critic at The New York Times. Also a professor at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts.	She wrote a book on Michael Jackson Negroland: A Memoir
Manju Kapur	Indian Novelist, teaches English at Delhi University	Difficult Daughters won the Commonwealth Prize for the Best First Novel
Marcos Giralt Torrente	A Spanish writer	His first book was a collection of short stories called Entiéndame. Since then, he has published three novels and three more short story collections.
Ajay Navaria	He is in the Hindi department at Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi.	He is one of the most celebrated Hindi writers of his generation famous for his short stories Anya Kahaniyan, Unclaimed Terrain, Yes Sir and his novel Udhar ke Log.
Neelima Dalmia Adhar	She is the daughter of the renowned industralist Ramkrishna Dalmia.	Father Dearest Merchants of Death
Alex Ross	Presently, he is an employer at the New Yorker Magazine.	His first book, ‘The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century’, which is a cultural history of music since 1900, won a National Book Critics Circle award and the Guardian First Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Ha-joon Chang	He is a South Korean institutional economist specializing in development economics.
Linda Colley	She is a British historian of Britain, empire and nationalism. She is currently Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University in the United States.	Her ten books have been awarded as the ten best books of the year.
Jeremy Paxma	He is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He has worked for the BBC since 1972.
Dexter Filkins	He is an American Journalist.	The Forever War; also known for his coverage of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan FOR THE New York Times.
Roberto Calasso	He is an Italian Writer and publisher.	Many famous works like Literature & the Gods, etc.
David Hare	He is a Scottish watchmaker and Philanthropist in Bengal.	He is the well-known English playwright and screenwriter, the two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Hours and The Reader.
Richard Flanagan	Australian Novelist	The winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni	Indian-American Author and poet	Many famous works like Mistress of Spices, The Palace of Illusions, etc.
Eka Kurniawan	Indonesian Writer and graphic designer	His famous works include Beauty is a Wound, Man Tiger, etc.
SL Bhyrappa	Kannada Novelist	Famous works like Parva, Mandra, etc.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb	He is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.	Famous works like The Bed of Procrustes, etc.
Mark Haddon	English Novelist	He is best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Alan Hollinghurst	An English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator	Famous works like The Line of Beauty, The Stranger’s Child, etc.
Anne Waldman	An American Poet	She is the author of over 40 books of poetry, she also won the 2012 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry
Neil MacGregor	Scottish art historian who has worked as the director of the National Gallery, London and the British Museum	Famous works like Seeing Salvation, etc.
No Violet Bulawayo	Zimbabwean author	Famous works: We need new names
Tahmima Anam	British-Bangladeshi writer, columnist & novelist	British-Bangladeshi novelist who won the Best First Book Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for A Golden Age in 2008.
Swanand Kirire	Indian lyricist, writer, assistant director, playback singer and dialogue writer, both in television and Hindi films.	His Album Fitoor
Narendra Kohli	Hindi-Language Author	His famous works: Toro, Ram Katha, etc.
Ruth Padel	She is a British poet, novelist & non-fiction author	Famous works like Mara Crossing
Vikram Chandra	He is an Executive director and CEO at NDTV group	His books like Sacred Games, Love & Longing in Bombay.
Simon Winchester	He is a British author and journalist	His famous works: Pacific, etc.
Alice Walker	She is an American Novelist, short story writer, poet and activist.	The first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the National Book Award in 1983 for her novel ‘The Color Purple’

10 Years of Jaipur Literature Festival

The Co-Director at JLF, writer and historian William Dalrymple is really enthusiastic and brimming with an inextinguishable energy for the 10th anniversary of the Jaipur Literature Fest because this time, the list of speakers & authors is quite different. This time, the list is filled with creative talents from across the globe including people from North Korea, Jamaica, Tasmania and Zimbabwe. Changing the continents to and fro, would create that feel of literature being all over, which is really contagious.

The literature fest could be seen zooming with all traditional and modern bliss with a creative talent gathering at the lanes and veins of the fest and people mingling in big groups, exchanging ideas and bonding like old friends. The academic scholars, the creative enthusiasts, the aspiring authors, the avid readers, the intellectual debaters and also the ones who love meeting new people are here to find a peaceful yet learning experience.

Be prepared to indulge yourself in such activities at the Jaipur Literature Fest 2017 at Diggi Palace, starting from 19^th Jan to 23^rdJanuary, 2017. Registrations open!