Marking its 16th year, the iconic Festival will showcase a plethora of themes and writers curated specially for its loyal community of audiences from across the world, offering an immersive experience of literature, discourse, musical performances, art installations, merchandise, local cuisine and more.
The Festival will offer a representation of all Indian national languages and multiple foreign languages with sessions spread across 5 venues with over 250 speakers.
Just like every year, the literary extravaganza will feature a unique programme for its 2023 edition covering Fiction, Non-Fiction, Food, History, Current Affairs and Politics, AI and Technology, Translations, Poetry, Adaptations and Music, Language, Climate Crisis, Literature Noir, Identity, Medicine and Health, Cryptocurrency and Economy.
The Kumbh of literature returns to the heart of Jaipur with a caravan of writers & thinkers, bestselling authors & humanitarians, to rejoice in the power and potential of the written word.
This year, it will feature names like Abdulrazak Gurnah, Anamika, Anthony Sattin, Ashok Ferrey, Ashwin Sanghi, Avinuo Kire, Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma, Daisy Rockwell, Deepti Naval, Howard Jacobson, Jerry Pinto, Manil Suri, Katie Kitamura, Martin Puchner, Merve Emre, NoViolet Bulawayo, Rana Safvi, Ruth Ozeki, Sathnam Sanghera, Shehan Karunatilaka, Tanuj Solanki, Vauhini Vara, Vincent Brown and Vir Sanghvi.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Festival Dates – The Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 is schedule to take place from 19th – 23rd January 2022 at the Hotel Clarks, Amer, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
- Registration and Delegate Packages – Online registration for the Festival is mandatory and attendees can register via the Festival website. Visitors can also book the ‘Friend of the Festival’ package to experience the Festival’s magic, while interacting with selected authors and influencers, relaxing in the well-appointed Delegate Lounge, attending the Jaipur Music Stage and the Heritage Evening.
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 acclaim 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 launch the digital series, ‘JLF Brave New World’ and ‘Words Are Bridges’, which were view 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.
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 view 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.
