{"id":516,"date":"2017-01-23T22:19:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T16:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinkcitypost.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2017-01-23T22:19:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T16:49:21","slug":"jlf-2017-concludes-today-3-editions-year-london-colorado-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinkcitypost.com\/jlf-2017-concludes-today-3-editions-year-london-colorado-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"JLF \u2013 2017 concludes today, 3 more editions this year in London, Colorado and Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jaipur:<\/strong> Described as the \u2018kumbh of literary festivals\u2019, the 10th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival came to a close on Monday.\u00a0 Over 400 world leading names and minds in the fields of fiction and non-fiction writing took part in the festival that began on January 19.<\/p>\n Some of the renowned personalities that attended the five-day event include Javed Akhtar, Ashwin Sanghi, Lila Azam Zanhaneh, Prasoon Joshi, Richard Flanagan, Luke Harding, Bibek Debroy, Paul Beatty, Mallika Dua, Hardeep Singh Puri, Hyeonseo Lee, Alan Hollinghurst and Shashi Tharoor.<\/p>\n Some Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n Music<\/strong><\/p>\n More than 100 musicians both global and local filled the mornings at Diggi Palace and the evenings at Clarks Amer. Music from artists including the arousing Shillong Chamber Choir, Swanand Kirkire and Anukur Tewari started the day for festival visitors, and the hugely popular Raghu Dixit Project, Lisa Hannigan, Soulmate and Inna Modja drew the crowds on the lawn of Clarks Amer in the evening.<\/p>\n The crowds gathered at Amber Fort and Hawa Mahal for two mesmerising Heritage Evenings in partnership with Rajasthan Tourism, in two stunning settings. Lit to accentuate the beautiful details of these heritage properties, around 1,200 people flocked to Amber Fort to hear the celebrated poetry of Anne Waldman from the USA and Bollywood lyricist Swanand Kirkire.\u00a0 At Hawa Mahal around 700 people went on a journey through the magical realm of entertainment with Vidya Shah and Luke Kenny.<\/p>\n Festival Director Namita Gokhale said, \u201cThere’s always a sweet sadness as the festival draws to a close. It’s been a wonderful exhilarating year, and the speakers and sessions covered a huge range of themes and narratives. I’m taking notes already, jotting down ideas, and gearing up for 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n Festival Director William Dalrymple said, “I think it was our strongest year yet, both at the main festival and at the Music Stage. Our artists were all magnificent and I’m incredibly proud of them.”<\/p>\n Sanjoy Roy, Managing Director of Teamwork Arts, Producer of the Festival, said, \u201cThere are many truths and the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a platform to reflect some of these. And continue to make sense of the world that we inhabit and envision the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Three more editions of JLF this year<\/strong><\/p>\n Far from being the end of the Festival in 2017 \u2013 there is set to be three further editions of JLF across the world at the British Library in London this May, and then the second edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder, Colorado, USA in the autumn, and the newly announced JLF Melbourne next month. The international outposts of the JLF festivals will be produced by Teamwork Arts, which in addition produces over 25 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals in more than 40 cities across the world.<\/p>\n Next year the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival will run from January 19 to January 23. The Festival has already announced a handful of writers lined up for next year including Amy Tan, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Dipanker Gupta, Davesh Soneji, Graham Swift, Hari Kunzru, Ian McEwan, Mario Vargas Llosa, Michael Morpurgo, Michael Palin, Neil Gaiman, PJ Harvey, Rohinton Mistry, Sunita Narain, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Zadie Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jaipur: Described as the \u2018kumbh of literary festivals\u2019, the 10th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival came to a close on Monday.\u00a0 Over 400 world leading names and minds in the fields of fiction and non-fiction writing took part in the festival that began on January 19. Some of the renowned personalities that attended the five-day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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