Jaipur Literature Festival 2027
- When
- January 14 – 18, 2027
- Where
- Hotel Clarks Amer, Amer, Jaipur
- Who
- @jaipurlitfest
There is much to discover at the Jaipur Literature Festival. As a Friend of the Festival, you will find yourself a unique way to savour it. Step into an experience that indulges you, challenges you, makes you evolve, and helps you mingle with bold ideas and new people. Make memories that will endure a lifetime! Travel to the ‘greatest literary show on earth’ as a friend! One Festival. Many Stories. 14–18 January 2027 Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur @teamworkarts @namitagokhale @williamdalrymple @sanjoykroy @jlfinternational
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“Every story brings us closer. Every edition of the world’s greatest literary show opens a new chapter. And twenty years make a story worth celebrating. Join us for the 20th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival, presented by Vedanta, wh…”
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“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 b…”
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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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““Your questions can be different from my questions, and that’s okay.” For Amish, the power of Indian stories lies not in giving us neat conclusions, but in leaving us with questions to ponder. The best stories make us wonder, question and f…”
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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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“In a world increasingly certain of its answers, literature asks us to pause. To slow down. To question what we think we know. To look again at the certainties we have made our own. Geetanjali Shree reflects on literature’s role in creating …”
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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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