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The ‘greatest literary show on earth’ is scheduled to unfold between the 1st and 5th of February in the year 2024, at its cherished home, the Hotel Clarks Amer in Jaipur. Featuring an exceptional assembly of celebrated speakers, both from India and beyond, the Jaipur Literature Festival will, once again, serve as the gathering place for the world’s preeminent authors, intellectuals, humanitarians, political leaders, business magnates, and entertainers, all on one grand stage.
Featuring a rich five-day program brimming with literature, art and culture, this festival guarantees its enthusiasts unprecedented access to some of the literary world’s most renowned personalities. For this year’s literary celebration, we are pleased to introduce a special ‘Friends of the Festival’ (FOF) package for our attendees, promising an unmatched experience throughout the event. This exclusive experience includes access to a private and elegantly appointed Festival Lounge, where FOFs can unwind, network, and engage with festival speakers while enjoying tea, coffee, or lunch. It also comprises thoughtfully curated sessions with priority seating, captivating live music performances at the Jaipur Music Stage, and the opportunity to acquire official festival merchandise. In addition, FOFs will receive invitations to a cultural evening at an iconic and historic venue in Jaipur, as well as an evening of cocktails at the Festival Lounge. We take great pride in providing our FOFs with regal, old-world hospitality, ensuring their needs are attended to from the moment they arrive until their departure.
The detailed artiste line-up and programme will be announced soon. For more information, please visit https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/.
- Date: 1st – 5th February, 2024
- Registration and FOF Packages: Online registration for the Festival is mandatory and attendees can register via the Festival website using this link https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/friendsofthefestival-registration. Visitors can also buy FOF Packages to experience the Festival’s magic, while mingling with authors, interacting with industry players, relaxing in the FOF Lounge, and enjoying the Jaipur Music Stage and Heritage Evening.
- Delegate Entry: For a single day at INR 13,500/-, for two days at INR 24,500/-, three days at INR 36,000/-, for four days at INR 46,000/- and for five days at INR 56,000/-. Packages can be tailored to suit any duration.
About Jaipur Literature Festival:
Described as the ‘greatest literary show on Earth’, the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas.
The past 16 years have 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.
As the years pass and the Festival grows, our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic platform offering access to all. 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, alongside Festival Producer Teamwork Arts, invite speakers to take part in the five-day programme set in the historic and dynamic state capital Jaipur.
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.
Website: www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org
About Teamwork Arts:
Teamwork Arts is a highly versatile production company with roots in the performing arts, social action and the corporate world. For over 30 years, Teamwork Arts has taken India to the world and brought the world to India, presenting the finest of Indian performers, writers, change makers and visual artistes in the knowledge and arts space in India and abroad. Every year, we produce over 33 festivals in 72 cities and 26 countries in the fields of performing & visual arts and literature. We produce the world’s largest literary gathering: the annual Jaipur Literature Festival; JLF international now travels to the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Maldives, and Europe.
Even amidst the upheaval and unsettling times of 2020 and through 2021, Teamwork Arts successfully launched the digital series, JLF Brave New World and Words Are Bridges, which were viewed by over 4.8 million people in their first season. Through its digital avatar, the Jaipur Literature Festival reached over 27 million viewers in January 2021. Art Matters empowers artistes across India to collaborate by commissioning them to create new works. The digital series Be Inspired was launched in 2021 – a series that crystal gazes into the future with conversations on science, technology, innovation, environment and more. The first on-ground edition of ‘Be Inspired – Festival of Ideas’ was held in April 2023.
Website: www.teamworkarts.com
