A 5 days long Jaipur Literature Festival-2023 is all set for grand opening here on Thursday to keep up its tradition of uncovering a gamut of ‘stories’ in literature from across the world.
The 16th Edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival-2023, will feature some of the most celebrated and extraordinary minds of the world apart from displaying 21 Indian and 14 International languages with sessions spread across the 5 venues.
The festival will host 350 speakers from across a vast array of nationalities, as well as recipients of major awards such as the Nobel, the Booker, International Booker, the Pulitzer, the Sahitya Akademi, Baillie Gifford, Pen America Literary Awards, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and JCB Prize for literature, Namita Gokhale, said its founder co-director.
Beginning on Thursday, the festival will open in the campus of a 5 star hotel with the calming strains of morning music by the award winning Carnatic vocalist, Sushma Soma followed by its inauguration. Abdulrazak Gurnah, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature will deliver the keynote address.
It will feature some of the greatest literary minds including Nobel laureate Gurnah, International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree, author and translator Daisy Rockwell, lyricist and author Gulzar, filmmaker and producer Onir.