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ZEE JLF 2017 ninth announcement of 10 authors

By FnF Correspondent | PUBLISHED: 15, Dec 2016, 19:17 pm IST | UPDATED: 15, Dec 2016, 19:24 pm IST

ZEE JLF 2017 ninth announcement of 10 authors New Delhi: The past decade has seen the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival grow into the world’s largest free event of its kind. Having hosted 1300 speakers and welcoming nearly 1.2 million book lovers, the success of JLF has been astonishing and heartwarming.

Celebrating writers from across the globe, the Festival has hosted some of the best regarded and loved names, ranging from Nobel Laureates and Man Booker Prize winners to debut writers such as Amish Tripathi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Eleanor Catton, Hanif Kureishi, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Ian McEwan, JM Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Mohammed Hanif, Oprah Winfrey, Orhan Pamuk, Pico Iyer, Salman Rushdie, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty, Vikram Seth and Wole Soyinka, as well as renowned Indian language writers such as Girish Karnad, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, MT Vasudevan Nair, Uday Prakash as well as the late Mahasweta Devi and UR Ananthamurthy.

Writers and Festival Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple invite authors from across the globe to take part in the five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan’s stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.

Equity and democracy run through the Festival’s veins, placing some of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers from all walks of life together on stage. All events are completely free and there are no reserved spaces; this egalitarian access is a powerful statement in a country where access to such individuals remains the privilege of a few. On top of all this, people are guaranteed to have fun!

As Time Out said: “It’s settled. The Jaipur Literature Festival is officially the Woodstock, Live 8 and Ibiza of world literature, with an ambience that can best be described as James Joyce meets Monsoon Wedding.”

The ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 25 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally, and is produced by Sanjoy K. Roy.

In 2014, ZEE JLF spread its wings beyond the borders of India with an annual event in May in London. The following year, ZEE JLF headed across the pond to Boulder, Colorado where it hosts a similar event every September.

The ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival's ninth announcement of 10 authors, as part of #10Speakers10Weeks is also revealed today.

1. Ashwin Sanghi is an Indian writer of thrillers. He is the author of three novels, The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant and The Krishna Key. He is one of India's bestselling conspiracy fiction writers and retells Indian history and mythology in a contemporary context. He has featured on Forbes India’s ‘Celebrity 100’ list. His latest novel, The Sialkot Saga, was released in April 2016.

2. Deborah Smith’s translations from the Korean include The Vegetarian (winner of the International Man Booker Prize) and Human Acts by Han Kang as well as A Greater Music and Recitation by Bae Suah. Smith is the winner of the Arts Foundation Award for Literary Translation and runs Tilted Axis Press, a publisher of contemporary Asian fiction in translation.

3. Naseem Shafaie was born and brought up in Kashmir and began writing Kashmiri poetry in 1988. She is the author of Open Window and Neither Shadow Nor Reflection, which won the Tagore Award for Excellence in Literature and the Sahitya Akademi Award. She is the first Kashmiri female writer to receive both awards.

4. Shazi Zaman is a well-known Hindi author whose latest novel Akbar deals with the inner and outer battles of one of India’s most influential emperors. His earlier novels are Premgali Ati Saankri and Jism Jism Ke Log. A journalist by profession, he is Group Editor of ABP News Network and has worked with the BBC, Star News, ZEE News, Aaj Tak and Doordarshan.

5. Sunil Khilnani is the author of The Idea of India and, most recently, Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives, which was accompanied by his 50-part BBC radio and podcast series. Among his other publications are: Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France, several collaborative volumes as well as essays on Gandhi, Tagore, Nehru and contemporary Indian art and photography. He is currently Avantha Professor and Director of the India Institute at King’s College London. He has been a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge, the Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington DC, the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin and the American Academy in Berlin. He is a regular contributor of essays, articles and comment to the international media.

6. Aarathi Prasad was born in London to an Indian mother and a Trinidadian father, and was educated in the West Indies and the UK. After a PhD in genetics she worked in research, science policy and communication, presenting documentaries for the BB, Channel 4, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. She is the author of Like A Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex and In the Bonesetter’s Waiting Room: Travels Through Indian Medicine. She works at University College London.

7. Anita Anand is a television and radio presenter working for the BBC. She has fronted a number of flagship political programmes in the UK and has been a columnist for a national newspaper. In 2015, Anand released her first book, Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary, to international critical acclaim. Her latest book is Kohinoor, co-written with William Dalrymple.

8. Brigid Keenan is an author and journalist. She has worked as editor on Nova Magazine, The Observer and The Sunday Times. She has published two fashion histories as well as Travels in Kashmir, Damascus: Hidden Treasures of the Old City and the bestselling Diplomatic Baggage.
 
9. Bruce Robinson trained as an actor at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama. Despite being cast in several prodigious movies, he abandoned acting to pursue a career as a writer. His first ever realised screenplay was The Killing Fields, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Subsequent to that he has written and directed many films including Withnail and I, How to Get Ahead in Advertising and The Rum Diary, starring Johnny Depp.

10. Christopher Sykes is a photographer and author of 27 books, including, as a photographer, Great Houses of England and Wales, The Gardens of Buckingham Palace and The Rolling Stones of Tours, and as author, Eric Clapton, which he co-authored with Eric Clapton and Hockney: The Biography.

The updated list of speakers attending the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2017 includes:


1.    A.N. Wilson

2.    A.N.D. Haksar

3.    Aarathi Prasad

4.    Abhay K.

5.    Adam Thirlwell

6.    Aditi Goyal

7.    Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth Dhanush

8.    Ajay Navaria

9.    Alan Hollinghurst

10.  Alex Ross

11.  Alexandra Buchler

12.  Alka Pande

13.  Ambika Dutt

14.  Amrita Tripathi

15.  Anant Vijay

16.  Andrew Roberts

17.  Angelica Freitas

18.  Anindita Ghose

19.  Anita Anand

20.  Anjali Singh

21.  Anne Waldman

22.  Antara Ganguli

23.  Anu Singh Choudhary

24.  Anuradha Beniwal

25.  Arefa Tehsin

26.  Arshia Sattar

27.  Arunava Sinha

28.  Ashok Desai

29.  Ashok Ferrey

30.  Ashutosh Varshney

31.  Ashwin Sanghi

32.  Atul Kanak

33.  Audrey Truschke

34.  Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir,

35.  Barry Cunliffe

36.  Bee Rowlatt

37.  Bhrigupati Singh

38.  Bibek Debroy

39.  Binod Chaudhary

40.  Brigid Keenan

41.  Bruce Robinson

42.  Bryan Ward-Perkins

43.  C. Raja Mohan

44.  C.P. Deval

45.  Cemal Kafadar

46.  Chandrahas Choudhury

47.  Chintan Chandrachud

48.  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

49.  Chitra Soundar

50.  Christopher Merrill

51.  Christopher Sykes

52.  Claire Breay

53.  Clare Azzopardi

54.  Claudia Hyles

55.  Dambisa Moyo

56.  Danish Sheikh

57.  Dattatreya Hosabale

58.  David Armitage

59.  David Cannadine

60.  David Carpenter

61.  David Hare

62.  David McWilliams

63.  David Park

64.  Deborah Smith

65.  Deepa Agarwal

66.  Devdutt Pattanaik

67.  Devesh Kapur

68.  Dexter Filkins

69.  Dhrubajyoti Bora

70.  Divya Mathur

71.  Durgaprasad Agarwal

72.  Dushyant

73.  Eka Kurniawan

74.  Eluned Gramich

75.  Emma Sky

76.  Eric Akoto

77.  Francesca Orsini

78.  Franck Thilliez

79.  Frank Trentmann

80.  Geeta Samaur

81.  Giles Milton

82.  Gopi Kallayil

83.  Guillermo Rodríguez

84.  Gulzar

85.  Ha-Joon Chang

86.  Hardeep Singh Puri

87.  Hari Ram Meena

88.  Harsha Dehejia

89.  Helena Kennedy

90.  Hindol Sengupta

91.  Hridayesh Joshi

92.  Hyeonseo Lee

93.  Imayam Annamalai

94.  Inga Žolude

95.  Ira Trivedi

96.  Ishion Hutchinson

97.  Issa Asgarally

98.  Jaisal Singh

99.  James Barr

100.  James McHugh

101.  Janhavi Prasada

102.  Jatindra K. Nayak

103.  Javed Akhtar

104.  Jim Mallinson

105.  John Elliott

106.  John Guy

107.  John Keay

108.  Jon Wilson

109.  Jonathan Shainin

110.  Jyoti Malhotra

111.  K.C. Maloo

112.  Kaajal Oza Vaidya

113.  Kala Ramesh

114.  Kanak Dixit

115.  Karim Alrawi

116.  Kate Tempest

117.  Kavita Singh

118.  Keki Daruwalla

119.  Kunga Tenzin Dorji

120.  Kyoko Yoshida

121.  Lila Azam Zanganeh

122.  Linda Colley

123.  Lucinda Hawksley

124.  Lucy Beresford

125.  Luke Harding

126.  Luke Syson

127.  M.A. Baby

128.  Madeleine O’Dea

129.  Madhav Khosla

130.  Madhup Mohta
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