Booker Prize-winner Damon Galgut, bestselling British novelist Diana Evans and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni of ”The Palace of Illusions” fame characteristic on the Jaipur Literature Festival’s (JLF) second listing of 25 audio system introduced on Wednesday.

Dubbed as ”the best literary present on earth”, the upcoming seventeenth version of the competition, scheduled from February 1-5, 2024, will happen at Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur.

”The Festival will as soon as once more be a grand marathon of concepts between writers, thinkers, idealists, realists, visionaries, intellectuals, avant-garde practitioners and the iconoclasts, all of whom will have interaction in knowledgeable dialogue, united by an abiding love for literature,” mentioned the organisers in a press release.

Among the audio system to be careful for within the second listing are Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Hernan Diaz and Kai Bird, journalist-art critic Katie Kitamura, British artwork historian Luke SysonKelly Dorji, former prime minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull AC, and veteran poet-lyricist Gulzar.

”The second listing of 25 audio system has a various and erudite combine that embody Akhil Katyal, poet, translator, scholar and creator of ‘Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems’ and ‘How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross’.

”… Amia Srinivasan, educational and creator of ‘The Right to Sex’; Andrew Quintman, scholar within the Buddhist traditions of Tibet and the Himalaya; Arundhathi Subramaniam, main Indian poet and Sahitya Akademi Award recipient; Bonnie Garmus, artistic director and debut novelist of Lessons in Chemistry,” learn the listing.

The five-day literary extravaganza, primarily based on the theme of ‘Stories Unite Us’, goals to discover the transformative energy of literature, the way it displays society, and brings individuals collectively.

The listing continues with Bhutanese creator of ”The Hidden Rainbow” and actor Kelly Dorji, former choose of the Supreme Court justice Madan B Lokur, actor and author of the cookbook ”From My Kitchen to Yours” Maria Goretti and educational and author of ”The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway” Merve Emre.

Former diplomat Navdeep Suri, Pulitzer prize-winner Roger Cohen, graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee, award-winning creator Shumona Sinha, creator and playwright Vivek Shanbhag are additionally a part of the line-up.

As within the earlier years, the competition will rejoice linguistic range, that includes a broad spectrum of languages and host classes that target literary works in languages, together with Assamese, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Odiya, Punjabi, Tamil, and Urdu.

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