Jaipur Literature Festival set to take place from February 1-5 in 2024
Updated On: 28 November, 2023 07:59 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
The 17th edition of the literary festival will take place at Hotel Clarks Amer in the Pink City. It will see speakers like Sudha Murty, Daisy Rockwell and Geetanjali Shree return, and will also see the likes of Badri Narayan, Kal Penn and Daniel Hahn speak at the festival
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Popular children`s book author Sudha Murty will return to the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2024. Photo Courtesy: Jaipur Literature Festival
The annual and iconic Jaipur Literature Festival is back for the much-awaited 17th edition, set to take place from February 1 - 5 in 2024 at Hotel Clarks Amer in Jaipur. The festival will once again be a grand marathon of ideas between writers, thinkers, idealists, realists, visionaries, intellectuals, avant-garde practitioners and the iconoclasts, all of whom will engage in informed discussion, united by an abiding love for literature.
With this, the festival has also launched the third list of 25 speakers includes Amod K. Kanth, a prominent Indian social entrepreneur and activist with a parallel illustrious career as an IPS officer. His books include `Khaki in Dust Storm: Police Diaries Volume-1’ and ‘Khaki on Broken Wings: Police Diaries Volume - 2`; Arun Maira, former member of India’s Planning Commission, chairman of BCG India, chairman of Save the Children India, and chairman of Help Age International and author of the latest `Shaping the Future: How to Be, Think, and Act in the New World`; Badri Narayan, Sahitya Academy Award winning poet whose poems have been translated into English, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Urdu and many other Indian languages; Daisy Rockwell, artist and International Booker Prize winning translator, along with author Geetanjali Shree, for her translation of Shree’s Hindi novel, `Tomb of Sand`; Daniel Hahn, Booker International Prize shortlisted writer, editor, and translator, winner of the 2023 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature; Guillermo Rodríguez, author of `When Mirrors Are Windows: A View of A.K. Ramanujan’s Poetics` and co-editor of `Journeys: A Poet’s Diary by A.K. Ramanujan` and founding director of Casa de la India, a pioneering cultural centre in Spain; Gurucharan Das, former CEO of Procter & Gamble and author of his memoir `Another Sort of Freedom`; Ivy Ngeow, Malaysian-born, London-based author of `The American Boyfriend`, longlisted for the Avon x Mushens Entertainment Prize for Commercial Fiction Writers of Colour 2022.
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