“The Greatest Literary Show On Earth!”
-Tina Brown, The Daily Beast
- Scenes from earlier festivals
Welcome
The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, unquestionably Asia’s leading literary festival, will again play host to authors, publishers and book lovers from 21st January – 25th January 2010, at the heritage property, Diggi Palace in Jaipur.
The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, now in its fifth year, promises a wonderful mix of talks, panel discussions, lectures and readings by renowned authors from across the globe along with a festival fringe of theatre, films and, after sunset, music.
Although we are only five years old, already Jaipur is the biggest literature festival in Asia and the biggest completely free festival of literature in the world. As well as showcasing the best of Indian-language and English writing from India, we are this year hosting a Nobel laureate, a winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, two Booker winners and five winners of the Pulitzer prize for Literature, as well as leading writers from the world of history, biography, literary criticism, and travel, in addition to the stars of the world of fiction and the novel. Writers include Hanif Kureishi, Niall Ferguson, Louis De Bernieres, Roberto Calasso, Amit Chaudhuri, Geoff Dyer, Vikram Chandra, Tina Brown, Claire Tomalin, Michael Frayn, Mahasweta Devi, Shobhaa De Indira Goswami, Krishna Sobti, Krishna Baldev Vaid, Steve Coll, Stephen Frears, Pavan Varma, Lawrence Wright, Christophe Jaffrelot, Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuk, and Alexander McCall Smith.
The highlights of the evenings include readings from Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq by acclaimed actor Om Puri, performances by Titi Robin, Cheb I Sabbah, Susheela Raman, Djaima, Rajasthan Roots and Paban Das Baul, and readings and performances from William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives.