Jaipur Literature Festival 2024: The annual and renowned Jaipur Literature Festival has announced its second list of speakers for the eagerly anticipated 17th iteration, which will take place at Hotel Clarke Amer, Jaipur, from February 1 to 5, 2024. As the newly-released list demonstrates, the Festival will once again be a grand marathon of ideas between writers, thinkers, idealists, realists, visionaries, intellectuals, avant-garde practitioners, and iconoclasts, all of whom will engage in enlightened discourse, united by a deep love of literature.
The second list of 25 speakers has a diverse and erudite mix, including Akhil Katyal, poet, translator, scholar, and author of Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems and How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross; Amia Srinivasan, academic, and author of The Right to Sex; Andrew Quintman, scholar in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet and the Himalaya, and author of The Life of Milarepa; and many others. Arundhathi Subramaniam, leading Indian poet and Sahitya Akademi Award recipient; Bonnie Garmus, copywriter, creative director and debut novelist of Lessons in Chemistry; Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, celebrated author of best-selling books such as The Palace of Illusions, The Forest of Enchantment, The Last Queen and Independence; Damon Galgut, Booker Prize winning novelist and playwright; Diana Evans, Orange Award-winning novelist, journalist and critic; Gulzar Saab.
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Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Trust and in the Distance, is next on the schedule; Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, journalist, and author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Katie Kitamura, journalist and art critic, PEN-longlisted author of Intimacies; Luke Syson, British museum curator and art historian, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge; Justice Madan B. Lokur, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India and Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji; Malcolm Turnbull AC, the 29th prime minister of Australia, former politician and businessman; Maria Goretti, television presenter and actor, and author of the cookbook From My Kitchen to Yours; Merve Emre, academic and author of The Annotated Mrs.
Navdeep Suri, former Indian Ambassador to UAE, High Commissioner to Australia, Ambassador to Egypt, and Consul General in Johannesburg; Roger Cohen, Pulitzer Prize and George Polk award-winning journalist; Sarnath Banerjee, graphic novelist, artist, and filmmaker; and Shumona Sinha, award-winning author of Down with the Poor!, will also participate in the festival. Vincent Brown, scholar and author of The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery and Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War; Vivek Shanbhag, author, editor, and playwright who has published thirteen works of fiction; Yascha Mounk, German-born American political scientist and author of the recent books The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time and The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Demo
Each year, the Festival brings together a diverse array of the world’s most renowned writers, intellectuals, humanitarians, politicians, business tycoons, sportsmen, and entertainers on a single platform to advocate for free expression and meaningful discourse. Since its inception in 2007, the Festival has featured nearly 5,000 lecturers and performers and attracted more than one million book lovers from around the world. Today, the Jaipur Literature Festival has grown into a global literary event that serves as a center for captivating conversations, debates, and dialogues.
