Jaipur Literature Festival 2024 announces impressive second tranche of speakers

Jaipur: The annual and iconic Jaipur Literature Festival announced its second list of speakers for the much-awaited 17thedition, set to take place fromFebruary 1-5, 2024 at Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur. As the just-released list shows, the Festival will once again be a grand marathon of ideas between writers, thinkers, idealists, realists, visionaries, intellectuals, avant-garde practitioners and the iconoclasts, all of whom will engage in informed discussion, united by an abiding love for literature.

The second list of 25 speakers has a diverse and erudite mix that include Akhil Katyal, poet, translator, scholar and author of Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems and How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross; Amia Srinivasan,academic and author of The Right to Sex; Andrew Quintman, scholar in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet and the Himalaya, and author of The Life of Milarepa; Arundhathi Subramaniam,leading Indian poet and Sahitya Akademi Award recipient; Bonnie Garmus,copywriter, creative director and debut novelist of Lessons in Chemistry; Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,celebrated author of best-selling books such as The Palace of Illusions, The Forest of Enchantment, The Last Queen and Independence;Damon Galgut, Booker Prize winning novelist and playwright; Diana Evans,Orange Award winning novelist, journalist and critic; Gulzar Saab,legendary poet, lyricist and scriptwriter who has written over 100 books.

The list continues with Hernan Diaz,Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author ofTrust and in the Distance;Kai Bird,Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, journalist and author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer;Katie Kitamura,journalist and art critic,award-winning author of the PEN longlisted Intimacies;Kelly Dorji,Bhutanese actor, model and artist and the author of The Hidden Rainbow;Luke Syson,British museum curator and art historian and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge;JusticeMadan B. Lokur, formerJudge of the Supreme Court of India and Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji; Malcolm Turnbull AC,the 29th prime minister of Australia,former politician and businessman;Maria Goretti, television presenter, actorand writerof the cookbook FromMy Kitchen to Yours;Merve Emre,academic and writer ofThe Annotated Mrs. Dalloway.