Celebrating the power of literature, the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival is all set to run from 19th- 23rd January 2023. The literary extravaganza will feature an esteemed host of speakers, writers, and humanitarians for its 2023 edition in the pink city of Jaipur to celebrate the best of fiction, non-fiction, food, history, current affairs and politics, AI and technology, translations, poetry, adaptations and music, language, climate crisis, noir, identity, medicine and health, and cryptocurrency and economy at Hotel Clarks, Amer, Jaipur.
The final set of speakers, announced today, comprises some of the world’s best thinkers, writers, and speakers, including writer Akshaya Mukul; author Alka Saraogi; author Amia Srinivasan; publisher Ananda Devi; Pulitzer-Prize winning author Caroline Elkins; academic David Wengrow; 2022 Hasselblad Award recipient Dayanita Singh; member of Lok Sabha Feroze Varun Gandhi; Indian Monk and the winner of the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Award, Gaur Gopal Das; flute maestro Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia; scriptwriter, lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar; author Jonathan Freedland; award-winning correspondent for The Guardian Luke Harding; academic and author Maryam Aslany; author Merlin Sheldrake; CEO of cult.fit Mukesh Bansal and Co-Founder and Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited Nandan Nilekani.
The much-anticipated list goes on to mention filmmaker Onir; historian and writer Orlando Figes; 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism Literature and Creative Communications Arts P Sainath; Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award and the JLF Mahakavi Kanhaiya Lal Sethia Awardee Ranjit Hoskote; historian and academic Ruth Harris; economist and writer Sanjeev Sanyal; author and practising senior advocate Saurabh Kirpal; author and politician Shashi Tharoor; Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Siddhartha Mukherjee; internationally bestselling author Simon Sebag-Montefiore; writer and rapper Sumit Samos; author Toby Walsh; Director of the V&A, the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance Tristam Hunt; renowned pop singer Usha Uthup; writer Vidya Krishnan; political scientist Yascha Mounk; and translator of the winning novel of JCB prize for Literature 2022, Baran Farooqi.
The Festival will also feature some of the award-winning historians like Tom Holland, Alex von Tunzelmann, David Olusoga, Edward Chancellor, and Katy Hessel, amongst others.
The previously announced list of speakers includes eminent journalist, writer and translator Arunava Sinha; Sahitya Akademi Award winner Aruna Chakravarti; award-winning writer Ana Filomena Amaral; leading bi-lingual editor, writer and translator Manisha Chaudhry; Padmabhushan awardee Mridul Kirti; and former diplomat Navdeep Suri.
The 2023 edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival will offer an immersive experience of literature, discourse, musical performances, art installations, merchandise, local cuisine and more to all art, literature and culture enthusiasts gathered to bask in the glory of the ‘greatest literary show on Earth’.
Celebrating the uniting power of language, the Festival will provide an inclusive platform to all Indian and multiple foreign languages with sessions spread across 5 venues with over 250 speakers.
- Aanchal Malhotra
- Adam Burakowski
- Ahlawat Gunjan
- Ajit Rai
- Akkai Padmashali
- Akshaya Mukul
- Alex Renton
- Alex von Tunzelmann
- Alexandra Pringle
- Alka Pande
- Alka Saraogi
- Ambarish Satwik
- Amia Srinivasan
- Amrish Kumar
- Ananda Devi
- Anirudh Kanisetti
- Anirudh Suri
- Anita Anand
- Anna Della Subin
- Anna Keay
- Antony Beevor
- Archana Mirajkar
- Arshiya Sethi
- Artemis Cooper
- Avay Shukla
- Ayushi Rastogi
- Baran Farooqi
- Bee Rowlatt
- Bipin Shah
- BN Goswamy
- Bulbul Sharma
- C Raja Mohan
- Carol M Black
- Caroline Elkins
- Chandra Prakash Deval
- David Olusoga
- David Raubenheimer
- David Wengrow
- Dayanita Singh
- Devapriya Roy
- Durjoy Datta
- Edmund de Waal
- Edward Chancellor
- Emily Perkins
- Enakshi Ganguly
- Eswar Prasad
- Eugenia Kuznetsova
- Feroze Varun Gandhi
- Frank Báez
- Gaur Gopal Das
- Gayatri Sinha
- Géraldine Lenain
- Hariprasad Chaurasia
- Harsha V Dehejia
- Helene Bukawoski
- Hindol Sengupta
- Ilse Köhler-Rollefson
- Ira Mukhoty
- Javed Akhtar
- JJ Singh
- John Keay
- John Zubrzycki
- Jonathan Freedland
- Joseph Sassoon
- Kanishka Gupta
- Katy Hessel
- Kavita Puri
- Kavita Singh
- Kinshuk Gupta
- Kishwar Desai
- Kjell Ola Dahl
- Kris Manjapra
- Kristin Roskifte
- Lakshmi Puri
- Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Luke Harding
- Madhushree Ghosh
- Mahmood Mamdani
- Makarand R. Paranjape
- Malashri Lal
- Manasi Subramaniam
- Mandira Nayar
- Manoj Joshi
- Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
- Marcus du Sautoy
- Maryam Aslany
- Meena Kandasamy
- Meghnad Desai
- Merlin Sheldrake
- Meru Gokhale
- Michael Vatikiotis
- Mikhail Zygar
- Miranda Seymour
- Mugdha Sinha
- Mukesh Bansal
- Mukulika Banerjee
- Nand Bhardwaj
- Nandan Nilekani
- Nandini Das
- Nandini Nair
- Nasreen Munni Kabir
- Naushad Forbes
- Navin Chawla
- Nayanjot Lahiri
- Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
- Nilanjana S Roy
- Nishtha Gautam
- Onir
- Onyeka Nwelue
- Orlando Figes
- P Sainath
- Pheroza Godrej
- Pia Brancaccio
- Pragya Tiwari
- Prajwal Parajuly
- Praveen Swami
- Preeti Vyas
- Priyam Gandhi-Mody
- Priyanka Khanna
- Radha Chakravarty
- Raell Padamsee
- Rajiv Shukla
- Rajmohan Gandhi
- Rakhshanda Jalil
- Ranjit Hoskote
- Rati Saxena
- Ravina Aggarwal
- Ravindra Rathee
- Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Richard Blurton
- Rick Stroud
- Rohini Nilekani
- Rosinka Chaudhuri
- Ruth Harris
- Sandeep Purohit
- Sanjeev Sanyal
- Sanjoy K Roy
- Santanu Das
- Sarosh Zaiwalla
- Sathya Saran
- Saurabh Kirpal
- Saurav Jha
- Seema Sirohi
- Shailendra Raj Mehta
- Shashi Tharoor
- Shombi Sharp
- Shovana Narayan
- Shrabani Basu
- Shyam Saran
- Siddharth Dasgupta
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Simon Sebag-Montefiore
- Sohini Roychowdhury
- Srishti Jha
- Sudeep Sen
- Suhasini Haidar
- Sumit Samos
- Sunita Pant Bansal
- Surina Narula
- Surinder S Jodhka
- Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin
- Tansen Sen
- Tanuj Bhojwani
- Tarun Khanna
- Toby Walsh
- Tom Holland
- Tripurdaman Singh
- Tristam Hunt
- Tshering Tashi
- Udayan Mitra
- Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
- Usha Uthup
- Vaishali Mathur
- Vandana Saxena Poria
- Vandana Shiva
- Varud Gupta
- Vidya Krishnan
- Vidya Shah
- Vijay Gokhale
- Vivek Tejuja
- Warwick Ball
- William Dalrymple
- Yamini Aiyar
- Yascha Mounk
- Yashaswini Chandra
About Jaipur Literature Festival
Described as the ‘greatest literary show on Earth’, the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas.
The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted over 5,000 speakers and artists and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe.
Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access.
Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world’s greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.
Writers and Festival Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside producer Teamwork Arts, invite speakers to take part in the five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan’s stunning cultural heritage.
Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates J. M. Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk, Malala Yousafzai, Muhammad Yunus and Joseph Stiglitz; Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Douglas Stuart, Margaret Atwood and Paul Beatty; Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U. R. Ananthamurthy; along with literary superstars including Amish Tripathi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Vikram Seth.
An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Bill Gates, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Oprah Winfrey, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.
The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces it along with over 25 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally.
About Teamwork Arts
Teamwork Arts is a highly versatile production company with roots in the performing arts, social action and the corporate world.
For over 30 years, Teamwork Arts has taken India to the world and brought the world to India, presenting the finest of Indian performers, writers, change makers and visual artistes in the knowledge and arts space in India and abroad.
Every year, we produce over 33 festivals in 42 cities and 17 countries in the fields of performing & visual arts and literature.
We produce the world’s largest literary gathering: the annual Jaipur Literature Festival; JLF international now travels to the US, UK, Canada, Australia and the Maldives and soon in Europe.
Even amidst the upheaval and unsettling times of 2020 and through 2021, Teamwork Arts successfully launched the digital series, ‘JLF Brave New World’ and ‘Words Are Bridges’, which were viewed by over 4.8 million people in their first season.
Through its digital avatar, the Jaipur Literature Festival reached over 27 million viewers in January 2021.
Our initiative ‘Art Matters’ empowers artistes across India to collaborate across genres by commissioning them to create new works thereby effecting change & raising awareness.
The digital series ‘Be Inspired’ was launch in 2021 – a series that crystal-gazes into the future with conversations on science, technology, innovation, environment and more.
