The biggest literary event of not only India but of Asia-Pacific, the much-awaited Jaipur Literature Festival, an annual event, is going to start from the 21st of this month. The festival would conclude on the 25th.
The event would witness the visit of a host of celebrated authors from all across the globe. Prominent among them are:
The event would witness the visit of a host of celebrated authors from all across the globe. Prominent among them are:
•Kiran Desai
•Manju Kapur
•Nirupama Dutt
•Orhan Pamuk
•William Dalrymple
•J.M. Coetzee
You will be regularly update on this festival...Keep watching this space!
The Directors of the Festival are: William Dalrymple (the author of White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
) and Namita Gokhale. It is being produced by Sanjoy K. Roy, Sheuli Sethi and Teamwork Productions.HISTORY OF JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL:
The first of its kind was held in the year 2006. This festival is held in the month of January every year in the Pink City, Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan (Punjab). The Hall of Audience and the gardens of the Diggi Palace of Jaipur plays host to this literary extravaganza.
DAY BY DAY SCHEDULE OF JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2011
DAY 1: 21 January, 2011 (Friday)
Major Highlights of the Day:
In the section 'Pamuk & Art of the Novel' you will be the privileged spectator and listener to Orhan Pamuk (Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 2006 and know for his novel My Name Is Red
) in conversation with Chandrahas Chaudhury, a Mumbai-based novelist and Book Critic.
) in conversation with Chandrahas Chaudhury, a Mumbai-based novelist and Book Critic. It will be a double treat for you when you witness his discussion with Kiran Desai on Saturday.
In 'Fugitive Histories' Githa Hariharan (winner of Commonwealth Writer's Prize in 1992 for her first novel The Thousand Faces of Night
will be in engaged in discussion with Manju Kapur (of 'Difficult Daughters' fame).
will be in engaged in discussion with Manju Kapur (of 'Difficult Daughters' fame).DAY 2: 22 January, 2011 (Saturday)
John Makinson, Kiran Desai, Patrick French & Sunil Sethi will be in conversation with Sonia Singh in the section 'Why Books Matter'.
Kiran Desai in conversation with Jai Arjun Singh (author of 'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
') in the section 'The Inheritance of Books'.DAY 3: 23 January, 2011 (Friday)
'Boys will be Boys' will see Ruskin Bond (The Life and Works of Ruskin Bond
) in conversation with Ravi Singh.'Readings from Coetzee' to be presented by J.M.Coetzee (of Disgrace: A Novel
fame) himself will be introduced by Patrick French.You will see MJ Akbar (known for The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
) in 'Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan'.DAY 4: 24 January, 2011 (Friday)
'Poetry in the Time of Love & Torment' will witness Ashok Vajpeyi (the co-author of INDIAS GREAT MASTERS: A Photographic Journey into the Heart of Classical Music
)& K.Satchidanandan, who will be introduced by Arundhathi Subramaniam.In 'Imperial English' we will have Adam Zagajewski, Ahdaf Soueif, J.M.Coetzee & Mrinal Pande in conversation with Githa Hariharan. The section will be presented by Merrill Lynch.
DAY 5: 25 January, 2011 (Friday)
In 'Stranger than Fiction'Arthur Miller ( Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944-1961 (Library of America)
) in conversation with Abha Dawesar (the writer of Babyji
).'The Alchemy of Writing: Truth, Fiction & the Challenge of India' will have Tarun Tejpal (known for his The Alchemy of Desire: A Novel
) in conversation with Manu Joseph.We'll be the witnesses to Vikram Seth (his most famous creation A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Modern Classics)
)in conversation with Somnath Batabyal in 'A Suitable Book'.
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