Press Release
ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2018
Combined Speaker List
Updated 12.12.27
- Aanchal Malhotra
- Abeer Y. Hoque
- Abhijit Kothari
- Abhimanyu Singh Arha
- Abhinav Chandrachud
- Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
- Adam Nicolson
- Aditi Maheshwari Goyal
- Aditya Arya
- Adrian Levy
- Adriana Lisboa
- Ajoy Bose
- Akhil Katyal
- Akhil Sharma
- Akshay Rathi
- Akshaya Routray
- Alan Friedman
- Alan Rosling
- Alexandra Harris
- Alexandra Pringle
- Alia Malek
- Alind Maheshwari
- Alka Pande
- Aman Nath
- Amin Jaffer
- Amish
- Amita Baviskar
- Amitabh Mattoo
- Amitava Kumar
- Amrita Tripathi
- Amy Tan
- Anant Vijay
- Ananth Padmanabhan
- Andrew Quintman
- Angela Saini
- Anja Aronowsky Cronberg
- Anna Funder
- Anne Cheng
- Annie Montaut
- Anosh Irani
- Anthony Horowitz
- Anu Singh Choudhary
- Anuj Bahri
- Anurag Kashyap
- Arjun Nath
- Arpita Das
- Arun Maira
- Arunava Sinha
- Arundhathi Subramaniam
- Arvind Singh Ashiya
- Ashok Chopra
- Ashok Vajpeyi
- Ashwin Sanghi
- Åsne Seierstad
- Atmaprajnananda Saraswati
- Avinash Das
- Azeem Ibrahim
- N. Goswamy
- Bachi Karkaria
- Benjamin Dix
- Bihwadeep Moitra
- Brahma Chellaney
- Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky
- Bulaki Sharma
- Raja Mohan
- Carin Gerhardsen
- Carl W. Ernst
- Carlo Pizzati
- Caroline Franklin
- Cathy Scott-Clark
- Cécile Rischmann
- Chandan Gowda
- Chandrahas Choudhury
- Charlie English
- Charmaine Craig
- Charu Singh
- Chika Unigwe
- Chinmoy Guha
- Chintan Chandrachud
- Chitra Mudgal
- Christophe Jaffrelot
- Christopher de Bellaigue
- P. Agrawal
- Dan Jones
- Daryl Shute
- David McWilliams
- David Roche
- Deep Chand Sankhla
- Devyani Bhardwaj
- Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Diksha Basu
- Dipankar Gupta
- Dominic Dromgoole
- Dorothee Gieux
- Elizabeth Chatwin
- Era Tak
- Esther David
- Eurig Salisbury
- Faith Singh
- Farooq Engineer
- Galina Lazareva
- Gaurav Solanki
- Gerður Kristný Guðjónsdóttir
- Giorgio Montefoschi
- Glenn Patterson
- GR Raghavendra
- Greg Sheridan
- Gunjan Ahlawat
- Gurcharan Das
- Gurmehar Kaur
- Hamid Karzai
- Han Yujoo
- Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
- Helen Fielding
- Hema Maira
- Hitesh Shankar
- Homi Bhabha
- Hugh Thomson
- Huib Schippers
- Humphrey Hawksley
- Ian de Toffoli
- Ikram Rajasthani
- Ilse Köhler-Rollefson
- Indira Peterson
- Jairam Ramesh
- Janice Pariat
- Javed Akhtar
- Jayapriya Vasudevan
- Jeet Thayil
- Jeffrey Gettleman
- John Elliott
- John Freeman
- Josefine Klougart
- Joshua Ferris
- Jovan Mays
- Judy Lief
- Julia Donaldson
- Juliet Nicolson
- Justin Rowlatt
- Jyoti
- Jyoti Malhotra
- Kathy Reichs
- Kaya Genç
- Keggie Carew
- Kelly Falconer
- Kiran Nagarkar
- Kota Neelima
- Kushanava Choudhury
- Lathika George
- Laxmi Prasad Pant
- Leïla Slimani
- Léonora Miano
- Linda Spalding
- Lisa Randall
- Lolita Dutta
- Lorenzo Angeloni
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Ma Thida
- Madhav Khosla
- Maha Khan Phillips
- Makarand Paranjape
- Malashri Lal
- Malcolm Donaldson
- Malika V Kashyap
- Malvika Singh
- Mamang Dai
- Manas Saikia
- Manisha Chaudhry
- Manoj Joshi
- Manoranjan Byapari
- Manu Joseph
- Manu Pillai
- Margaret Alva
- Margit Walso
- Marie Brenner
- Marina Warner
- Markiyan Kamysh
- Markus Dohle
- Martin Puchner
- Matt Frei
- Maya Jasanoff
- Maya Mrig
- Meeta Pandit
- Melizarani T. Selva
- Meru Gokhale
- Michael Breen
- Michael Buckley
- Michael Franklin
- Michael Ondaatje
- Michael Puett
- Michael Rezendes
- Michael Vatikiotis
- Michele Albaret-Maatsch
- Mihir Sharma
- Milan Vaishnav
- Minam Apang
- Mini Krishnan
- Minna Lindgren
- Mira Nair
- Mona Zote
- Mridula Behari
- Mridula Garg
- Mridula Nath Chakravorty
- Muhammad Yunus
- Nadifa Mohamed
- Namita Bhandare
- Namita Gokhale
- Namita Waikar
- Nand Bhardwaj
- Nandita Das
- Nasera Sharma
- Nasreen Munni Kabir
- Nathalie Handal
- Naveen Kishore
- Nayantara Sahgal
- Nicholas Shakespeare
- Nicky Arscott
- Nicolas Dejenne
- Nicolas Idier
- Nikko Odiseos
- Nirupam
- Norman Ohler
- Novy Kapadia
- Nupur Paiva
- Odd Harald Hauge
- Oliver Moystad
- Om Thanvi
- Sainath
- Pankaj Dubey
- Pankaj Sekhsaria
- Paola Antonelli
- Paramita Tripathy
- Parismita Singh
- Paro Anand
- Patrick French
- Per J. Andersson
- Peter Bergen
- Peter Bos
- Phejin Konyak
- Philip A. Lutgendorf
- Philip Norman
- Pico Iyer
- Pierre Astier
- Poonam Surie
- Pradip Krishen
- Pragya Tiwari
- Prajwal Parajuly
- Pranay Lal
- Prashant Jha
- Pratap Bhanu Mehta
- Prayaag Akbar
- Preeti Gill
- Prerna Bindra
- Preti Taneja
- Priyanka Malhotra
- Punam Chadha-Joseph
- Puneeta Roy
- Punit Misra
- Rabih Alameddine
- Raghvendra Rawat
- Raghvendra Singh
- Raja Shehadeh
- Rajdeep Sardesai
- Rajendra Bora
- Rakhshanda Jalil
- Ranjana Sengupta
- Ravi DC
- Ravi Singh
- Redmond O’Hanlon
- Reena Menaria
- Renee Singh
- Renu Kaul
- Renuka George
- Rick Stroud
- Rima Hooja
- Rita Chowdhury
- Rita Kothari
- Robert Dessaix
- Robert Elgood
- Robert Watkins
- Rodaan Al Galidi
- Rohan Murty
- Roly Keating
- Rupi Kaur
- Sagarika Ghose
- Salil Tripathi
- Sam Cooney
- Sam Miller
- Samhita Arni
- Sampat Saral
- Sampurna Chattarji
- Sandip Roy
- Sanjoy K. Roy
- Sarah Raven
- Satabdi Mishra
- Satish Gupta
- Satya Vyas
- Saugata Mukherjee
- Saurabh Dwivedi
- Sayeeda Leghari
- Sethu
- Shabana Azmi
- Shailesh Bharatwasi
- Sharmila Sen
- Sharmila Tagore
- Shashi Tharoor
- Sheela Reddy
- Sheila Dikshit
- Shelja Sen
- Shireen Quadri
- Shobhaa De
- Shoukat Shoro
- Shreyasi Goenka
- Shruti Sharma
- Shvetha Jaishankar
- Shyam Saran
- Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
- Simon Broughton
- Smriti Kiran
- Snigdha Poonam
- Soha Ali Khan
- Sonal Mansingh
- Sreenivasan Jain
- Stephen Green
- Subhash Chandra
- Subhro Bandopadhyay
- Suchita Malik
- Sudeep Chakravarti
- Sudha Murty
- Sudhanva Deshpande
- Sudipti
- Sugata Ghosh
- Suhasini Haidar
- Sujata Prasad
- Sujatha Gidla
- Sujeev Shakya
- Sukhadeo Thorat
- Suki Kim
- Sunandan Roy Chowdhury
- Sunandini Banerjee
- Sunita Narain
- Surendra Mohan Pathak
- Surjit Bhalla
- Susan Abulhawa
- Suzy Hansen
- Swapan Dasgupta
- Swati Chaturvedi
- Syed Salman Chisty
- Tara June Winch
- TCA Raghavan
- Tenzing Lamsang
- Terri-Ann White
- Tishani Doshi
- Tom Miller
- Tom Stoppard
- Tracey Spicer
- Tridip Suhrud
- Uday S. Kulkarni
- Upinder Singh
- Vanamala Viswanatha
- Vani Tripathi
- Veena Nagpal
- Victor Mallet
- Victor Sebestyen
- Victoria Lautman
- Vikas Singh
- Vikrant Pande
- Vimlesh Sharma
- Vineet Bajpai
- Vineet Kumar
- Vinod Bhardwaj
- Vir Sanghvi
- Vishal Bhardwaj
- Vivek Shanbhag
- Wendy Were
- William Dalrymple
- Yash Goyal
- Yasmine El Rashidi
- Yatindra Mishra
- Yotam Ottolenghi
- Zac O’Yeah
- Zakir Hussain
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About the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2018
Described as the ‘greatest literary show on Earth’ and the ‘Kumbh of literature’, the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas.
The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million booklovers from across India and the globe.
The Festival’s core values remain unchanged; to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access.
Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world’s greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.
Writers and Festival Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple invite speakers 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.
The Festival showcases a range of voices from India and abroad.
Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates J.M. Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk and Wole Soyinka, Man Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood and Paul Beatty, Sahitya Akademi winners Girish Karnad, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary superstars including Amish Tripathi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry and Thomas Piketty.
The ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces it along with over 25 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally.
In 2014, the Festival spread its wings beyond the borders of India with an annual summer event in London. In 2015, it headed across the pond to Boulder, Colorado where it hosts a similar event every September.
Website: www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org
About Teamwork Arts
For over 25 years, Teamwork Arts has taken India to the world and brought the world to India.
In countries such as Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Israel, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, UK and USA, Teamwork produces over 25 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities.
Teamwork Arts produces one of the world’s largest literary gatherings, the annual ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, the Ishara International Puppet Festival and the annual Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) and Festival in New Delhi, international festivals Shared History in South Africa, Eye on India in the United States of America, India by the Bay in Hong Kong, Confluence – Festival of India in Australia, India@70 2017: Year of Culture in the United Kingdom, and many more.
Website: www.teamworkarts.com
