Jaipur Literature Festival 2023
Jaipur Literature Festival or the JLF is an annual literary festival held in Jaipur, the pink city of India. The
festival is to be held from 19 th to 23 rd January 2023. Being founded in 2006, the Diggi Palace hotel serves
as the main venue of the festival. Over the past 15 years, the festival has served as a democratic platform,
offering access to all. Every year, they bring together a diverse mix of the world’s greatest writers,
thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to
champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. The pre-eminent event is
counted as the best platform where books in all formats, the products, services and education that support
the buyers and sellers of books will be displayed. Besides books, the fair raises possibilities for
interaction between authors, publishers, booksellers, distributors, librarians and readers. Featuring live
music sessions and interactive workshops, the festival provides a space to dare, dream and imagine.
As the largest free literary festival on Earth, the festival brings together the greatest thinkers and writers
from across South Asia and the world. This global literature festival has hosted nearly 2000 speakers and
millions of bibliophiles from all around India and the world. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel
Laureates J.M. Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk and Muhammad Yunus, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri,
Margaret Atwood and Paul Beatty, Sahitya Akademi winners Girish Karnad, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T.
Vasudevan Nair as well as the late 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, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas
Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.
