Jaipur Literature Festival 2027
- When
- January 1, 2027
- Who
- @jaipurlitfest
What makes a book worth keeping? For Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah, the answer was found in a simple question: Which book would I want to read again? Retirement brought with it the task of sorting through nearly 20 boxes of books accumulated over years of teaching literature. As Gurnah revisited them, he found himself deciding which books, and which writers, had truly stayed with him. Some passed the test; others lasted only a few pages before returning to the box. The books we return to are often the ones that have never really left us. In 2027, we celebrate 20 years of the ‘greatest literary show on earth!’ Register now to attend (Link in bio)
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“What remains unexpressed may be the greatest measure of human potential. Artificial intelligence works with what has already been expressed. Human intelligence reaches towards what is yet to come: the ideas, dreams, stories and possibilitie…”
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““We all have pretty heroic ideas of what we would have done, which are probably quite false.” Creative writing gives us the freedom to place ourselves in impossible situations and imagine how we might act. Yet imagined courage rarely accoun…”
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“Memory does more than preserve the past. Sometimes, it creates it. For Richard Flanagan, revisiting memories became an exploration of how we paint our own stories: what we remember, what we imagine, the colour of a distinct memory, and the …”
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“There is rarely a single moment that tells us who we are meant to become. More often, it is an accumulation of small moments, gathered quietly over time. For Markus Zusak, it was the feeling of disappearing into a novel: when the pages seem…”
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“Sometimes, the childhood we leave behind never quite leaves us. It returns in the stories we tell, in the children we remember, and in the things we understand only much later. For generations, Ruskin Bond, one of India’s finest storyteller…”
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““It's one of those confounding and wonderful stories, and it's about the interconnectedness of the arts and the many invisible and subtle threads that hold the entire tapestry together.” To master one art form, one must master them all. Aru…”
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“Objects carry stories. Stories give them meaning. Words paint them. For Orhan Pamuk, an object is never merely an object. It can carry a memory, gather a history, acquire an aura and, through the gifted hand of a writer, become part of a la…”
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