SPEAKERS
AHDAF SOUEIF
Alexandar-McCall-Smith
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
AMBI PARAMESWARAN
AMITABHA BAGCHI
AMITAVA KUMAR
ANDRÉ ACIMAN
ANDREW SEAN GREER
ANISH KAPOOR
ANITA NAIR
ANURADHA ROY
ARUNA ROY
ASHOK CHAKRADHAR
ASHWIN SANGHI
ÅSNE SEIERSTAD
CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI
COLSON WHITEHEAD
DEVDUTT PATTANAIK
Germaine-Greer
GERMAINE GREER
Hari-Kunzru
HARI KUNZRU
JAMES CRABTREE
JAMES MALLINSON
JEREMY PAXMAN
JERRY PINTO
JON LEE ANDERSON
JUERGEN BOOS
KANISHK THAROOR
KIM A. WAGNER
KJ ALPHONS
MAKARAND R. PARANJAPE
MANISHA KOIRALA
MANORANJAN BYAPARI
MARC QUINN
MARKUS ZUSAK
MEGHNA GULZAR
MEGHNA PANT
MITRA PHUKAN
MOHAMMAD HASAN
MOHAN NARAYAN SAMANTH
MOHIT SATYANAND
MOIN MIR
MOLLY CRABAPPLE
MRIDULA RAMESH
N. KALYAN RAMAN
N.S. MADHAVAN
NAINA LAL KIDWAI
NAMITA BHANDARE
NAMITA DEVIDAYAL
NAMITA GOKHALE
NAMITA WAIKAR
NANDINI KRISHNAN
NARENDRA KOHLI
NASREEN MUNNI KABIR
NAVIN CHAWLA
NAVTEJ SARNA
NEELESH MISRA
NEERAJ GHEI
NIKESH SHUKLA
NIKHIL KUMAR
NOVIOLET BULAWAYO
OMAR EL AKKAD
OMAR ROBERT HAMILTON
ORNIT SHANI
PARO ANAND
PARVATI SHARMA
PATRICK FRENCH
PAUL MCVEIGH
PAVAN K. VARMA
PERUMAL MURUGAN
PETER BERGEN
PRADIP KRISHEN
PRAGYA TIWARI
PRASENJIT BASU
PRAVIN KUMAR
PRIYA SARUKKAI CHABRIA
PRIYA SETH
PRIYAMVADA NATARAJAN
PUSHPESH PANT
RACHEL JOHNSON
RAJDEEP SARDESAI
RAKHSHANDA JALIL
RAMESH PATANGE
RAMITA NAVAI
RANA DASGUPTA
RANA SAFVI
RAVI AGRAWAL
RAVI PUROHIT
RAVI SHANKAR ETTETH
RAVINDER SINGH
RENI EDDO-LODGE
RESHMA QURESHI
RHIANNON JENKINS TSANG
RIA SHARMA
RICHARD EVANS
RIMA HOOJA
RITWIJ SHANDILYA
ROBIN JEFFREY
ROBYN MONRO-MILLER
ROHINI CHOWDHURY
ROM WHITAKER
ROY STRONG
RUBY LAL
RUBY WAX
RUPERT EVERETT
RUTH PADEL
SADHNA SHANKER
SAKET SUMAN
SAM KILEY
SANCHAITA GAJAPATI
SANDEEP UNNITHAN
SANDIP ROY
SANJEEV SANYAL
SANJOY HAZARIKA
SANJOY K. ROY
SATYAJIT SARNA
SATYANAND NIRUPAM
SAURABH DWIVEDI
SEBASTIAN BARRY
SHABRI PRASAD SINGH
SHANTANU RAY CHAUDHURI
SHARMILA SEN
SHASHI THAROOR
SHEORAJ SINGH BECHAIN
SHIVSHANKAR MENON
SHOBHAA DE
SHUBHANGI SWARUP
SIDDHARTH DHANVANT SHANGHVI
SIDDHARTH SINGH
SIMAR SINGH
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
SOHAILA ABDULALI
SOMNATH BATABYAL
SR FARUQI
SREENIVASAN JAIN
STEVE COLL
STEWART GORDON
SUBODH GUPTA
SUCHITA MALIK
SUDESHNA CHATTERJEE
SUHASINI HAIDAR
SUNIL S. AMRITH
SUNITA TOOR
SVEN BECKERT
SY QURAISHI
TAM BAILLIE
TANIA JAMES
TANIA SINGH
TANWI NANDINI ISLAM
TARUN KHANNA
TAWFIQ-E-ELAHI CHOWDHURY
TCA RAGHAVAN
TIMMIE KUMAR
TISHANI DOSHI
TOBY WALSH
TOVA REICH
UDAY PRAKASH
ULRIKE ALMUT SANDIG
UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE
URVASHI BUTALIA
USHA UTHUP
VARUN SIVARAM
VEENA VENUGOPAL
VENKI RAMAKRISHNAN
VIDYA SHAH
VIKAS JHA
VIKRAM CHANDRA
VISHNU SOM
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
WILLIAM SIEGHART
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About The Festival
Described as the ‘greatest literary show on Earth’, the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas.
The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe.
The Festival’s 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, sports people 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 invite speakers to take part in the five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan’s stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.
A Range of Voices from India And Abroad
Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates J.M. Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk and Wole Soyinka, Man Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan, 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 and Thomas Piketty.
The ZEE 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.
Directors and Producer
Sanjoy K. Roy
Festival Producer
Sanjoy K. Roy, an entrepreneur of the arts, is the Managing Director of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 25 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across 40 cities in countries such as Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Israel, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, UK and USA, and includes the world’s largest free literary gathering — the annual ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival. Roy has received the National Award for Excellence and Best Director for the film Shahjahanabad: The Twilight Years. He is a founder trustee of Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT) working to provide support services for street and working children in the inner city of Delhi where over 55,000 children have benefitted from education, training and residential services. In 2011 the White House presented SBT the US President’s Committee of Arts and Humanities Award for an International Organisation.
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