The Jaipur Literary Festival ( English The Jaipur Literature Festival ) is held in January annually since 2006. The largest literary festival in Asia [1] . The festival is attended by writers from different countries [2] [3] .
| Jaipur Literary Festival | |
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| The Jaipur Literature Festival | |
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| Dates | 2006 - p.t. |
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| Location | |
| City of | Jaipur |
| A country | India |
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About the Festival
Javed Akhtar , Prasun Joshi and Gulzar at the Jaipur Literary Festival in 2011
Indian writer Gurcharan Das at the Jaipur Literary Festival in 2012
The venue for the festival is the Doggy Palace.
The directors of the festival are the writers of Namit Gokhale and William Dalrymple .
Over the years, festival guests have become Salman Rushdi [4] , Wole Shoinka [5] , Joseph Maxwell Kutzee , Adam Zagayevsky , Khunot Diaz [6] , Orhan Pamuk , Kieran Desai [7] , Richard Ford , Candace Bushnell , Irwin Welch , Martin Amis [3] and many others.
Notes
- ↑ Jason Burke. Salman Rushdie pulls out of Jaipur literary festival over assassination fears . The Guardian (January 20, 2012). Date of treatment March 31, 2014.
- ↑ Namita Gokhale; William Dalrymple. Directors' Note (inaccessible link) . Jaipur Literature Festival. Date of treatment March 31, 2014. Archived March 22, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 The International Literary Festival opened in India . TV channel "Culture" (January 21, 2011). Date of treatment March 31, 2014.
- ↑ William Dalrymple. Why Salman Rushdie's voice was silenced in Jaipur . The Guardian (January 26, 2012). Date of treatment March 31, 2014.
- ↑ GILES HEWITT. Literary festival draws big stars (English) (link not available) . Brunei Times (February 1, 2010). Date of treatment March 31, 2014. Archived November 13, 2013.
- ↑ Aditi Saxton. 5 best bits of the Jaipur Literature Festival . Cable News Network (February 3, 2011). Date of treatment March 31, 2014.
- ↑ Manju Rajan. Kiran Desai at the Jaipur Literature Festival . Vogue (24 January 2011). Date of treatment March 31, 2014.