Jaipur, specially known as the modern city of Rajasthan, conducts a literature event every year, where they invite popular thinkers, writers, poets, authors and other literature-integrated people. Attending this event will make you experience the beauty of literature and how the big thinkers exchange tiger thoughts. This year the Jaipur Literature Festival will continue its tradition of enhancing literary thought and getting engaged with the most pertinent global themes.
Dates and history
Date: 19th- 23rd of January
This is an initiative of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation in which two entities named Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple curated a literature segment that was originally stated as a segment of the Jaipur Heritage International Festival in 2006. From the beginning, this festival has become the biggest literary exhibition in the world. This event is scheduled to take place from 19th to 23rd of January. This year this festival will be held at the Diggi Palace Hotel Jaipur, Rajasthan, which is one of the most beautiful heritage properties.
Popularity and key Highlights
Every year, the festival brings a diverse mix of the world’s greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sportspeople, and entertainers on one stage. The core objective of this event is to promote literacy, creativity and intellectual development renowned global literary festival, JLF fosters a vibrant exchange of ideas and cultures. This event welcomes you to know more about the environmental concern and how you can contribute to making it a better place to live. Here in this event, you can also meet several politicians. This event is a prestigious literary festival that attracts a wide number of people who are interested in literature.
- Poets, journalists, scholars, thinkers and writers from various regions come to Jaipur to attend this festival. This festival is noticeable for its eclectic mix of attendees and public speakers such as philosophers, politicians, celebrities and renowned authors.
- This event also includes literature workshops, book launch sessions, readings and panel discussions across various venues of the festival.
- A diverse lineup of speakers and sessions in multiple languages will be conducted in this event to give a higher focus on environmental sustainability
- Nobel Laureates like Venki Ramakrishnan, book prize winners such as Anna Funder and global thinkers like Tina Brown will also participate in the event.
- If you are interested in attending this event, you must not miss the book signing, literary discussion and cultural performances of this event, as these are some of the major highlights of this festival.
Curious about what popular celebrities, thinkers and authors think? You must visit this event to know more about them.
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