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The Delhi Preview of Jaipur Literature Festival 2024 provides a Glimpse into a Complex Schedule

Explore the diverse literary world at Jaipur Lit Fest 2024, featuring award-winning speakers, global conversations, and engaging sessions in 24 languages
on Jan 19, 2024

As the 17th edition of the famed Jaipur Literature Festival approaches, which will take place from February 1-5 at Hotel Clarks Amer in Jaipur, festival producer Teamwork Arts provided a preview of the world's most sought-after literary extravaganza at The Leela Palace in New Delhi.
The festival will, as always, feature an impressive lineup of writers, lecturers, thinkers, athletes, journalists, policymakers, social activists, and others.

The literary feast will showcase an inspiring breadth of linguistic diversity, with sessions on 16 Indian and 8 international languages. Indian languages include Assamese, Awadhi, Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kurukh, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Tamil, Toda, and Urdu.

The Jaipur Literature Festival will host approximately 550 speakers and artists from a wide range of nationalities in 2024, as well as recipients of major awards such as the Booker, International Booker, Pulitzer, Sahitya Akademi, Dada Saheb Phalke Award, DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, JCB Prize for Literature, and many more.

It will feature a range of themes including Fiction & Non Fiction, Literary Criticism, History, Politics & Current Affairs, Economics, Poetry, Art & Culture, Art & Architecture, Translation, Graphic Novels, Gender, Science & Medicine, Food & Memory, Biographies & Memoir, Mythology, Spirituality & Religion, Mental Health, Fashion & Lifestyle, Law & Justice, Geopolitics, Sports, Crime Fiction, Climate Change + Environment & Climate Justice, Pet Parents + Pets & Animals, Ci

Namita Gokhale, renowned writer and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, stated, "In our seventeenth year, we remain devoted to the rich richness of our multilingual literary history. We have writers from more than twenty-five countries. Sixteen Indian languages will be represented, including some with evocative oral traditions. We examine a wide range of ideas and issues, from mathematics to music, camels to food, the environment to economics, and fiction to faction. Do look up the wonderful programme on our website.”

"My co-director William Dalrymple and I have pieced together a magical mosaic of prose, poetry and narrative documentary, wherein we try to make sense of our times and understand our place in them," Gokhale said in a statement.

William Dalrymple, writer, historian, and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, stated: "Every year, we strive to raise the bar at the Jaipur Literature Festival, but 2024 will be our best festival yet. We are proud to present almost all of the year's most celebrated writers from around the world: the greatest novelists and poets, environmentalists and investigative journalists, historians and biographers, scientists and economists, artists and art historians, travel writers and humorists, literary critics and philosopher-feminists: a free-flowing gathering of great literary minds and extraordinary thinkers that is like a global super symposium or mega university opening.

Dalrymple continued, "We are happy to announce our exceptional line-up in Delhi for the next Jaipur Literature Festival 2024. The festival consistently attracts a large number of Delhi readers, writers, and literature fans, and our list of star writers includes many of the city's most prominent literary heavyweights. We offer a hearty invitation to all of our Delhi and global friends to join us at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2024, which will feature one of our most riveting line-ups to yet.

The impressive list includes Paul Lynch, Hernan Diaz, Ben Macintyre, Bonnie Garmus, Richard Osman, Peter Frankopan, Colin Thubron, Mary Beard, Kai Bird, Katie Kitamura, Monica Ali, Nicholas Shakespeare, Damon Galgut, Luke Syon, Katherine Rundell, Merve Emre, Vincent Brown, Amia Srinivasan, Patrick Radden Keefe, Jerry Brotton, and many others. It will be absolutely fantastic and should not be missed!"

Sanjoy K Roy, managing director of Teamwork Arts, which produces the Jaipur Literature Festival, stated: "As we embark on the Jaipur Literature Festival 2024, our vision is one of inclusivity, uniting the best in literary excellence and fostering interdisciplinary conversations on a global scale." Our Festival proudly represents pluralism, diversity, and multilingualism, with over 24 languages represented, 16 of which are from India.

The 2024 edition upholds our commitment to core values by concentrating on youth engagement, offering a democratic and accessible platform, and assuring free and equitable participation for all.

The Delhi Curtain Raiser at The Leela Palace featured a spectacular performance by Mohd Rafiq Khan Langa, a member of the famed Langa family of traditional Rajasthani folk vocalists.

Anjali Mehra, chief brand officer and senior vice president marketing at The Leela Palaces, Hotels, and Resorts, remarked, "It is our honour to collaborate with The Jaipur Literature Festival for the third year. This organisation celebrates our shared interest in literary arts, legacy, culture, and tradition.

We are happy to offer unique experiences for our guests that reflect authentic Indian luxury, and this literary extravaganza allows us to do so while sparking meaningful conversations."

The famed Jaipur BookMark (JBM), South Asia's most important publishing summit, will run concurrently with the festival in its 11th edition, bringing together publishers, editors, literary agents, writers, translators, and booksellers from all over the world. This year's forum on the business of books will last five days. JBM will host a variety of engaging workshops involving major publishing industry influencers.