SOURCE: JLF
While we all pined to be there, few made it. Some basked in the glory of eminent guests and some savoured the view from newspapers and other popular media.
All in all the festival was grand. But do you know all the personalities who graced the event?
Not every name is known to us. So let's go one by one!
This trivia series is going to be a long one; divided into parts. In each post, we will cover 5 events.
The festival began on the 19th of January:
SOURCE: JLF
1. INAUGURAL CEREMONY AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY NAMITA GOKHALE, WILLIAM DALRYMPLE AND SANJOY ROY; KEYNOTE SPEECH BY ABDULRAZAK GURNAH
- NAMITA GOKHALE-
a) Founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival
b) Debut novel- Paro: Dreams of Passion (1984)
c) Hosted the Doordarshan show Kitaabnama: Books and Beyond
d) Won the 2021 Sahitya Akademi Award
-WILLIAM DALRYMPLE-
a) Delhi-based Scottish Historian
b) one of the Co-founder of the Jaipur Literature Festival
c) Shiva's Matted Locks won at BAFTA 2002.
d) Works- In Xanadu, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
-SANJOY K. ROY-
a) Managing Director of Teamwork Arts
b) National Award awardee for the film Shahjahanabad: The Twilight Years
c) Produced the world's largest ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival among others
- ABDULRAZAK GURNAH-
a) Tanzanian-born British novelist
b) Awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
c) Notable Works: Paradise (1994), By the Sea(2001) and Desertion (2005)
2) SUPER INFINITE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF JOHN DONNE: KATHRINE RUNDELL IN CONVERSATION WITH NANDINI DAS
-KATHERINE RUNDELL-
a) English author and academic
b) Her work Rooftoppers won the 2015 Waterstone's Children's Book Awards
c) In 2022, Super Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne won Baille Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
-NANDINI DAS-
a) Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Exter College
3) THE BERNARDINE MANIFESTO: BERNARDINE EVARISTO IN CONVERSATION WITH NANDINI NAIR
-BERNARDINE EVARISTO-
a) British author and academic
b) Jointly won the Booker (Girl, Woman, Other) with Margaret Atwood ( The Testaments) in 2019.
c) First woman with Black heritage to win the Booker.
-NANDINI NAIR-
a) Nandini Nair is the literary and culture editor of the Open Magzine.
4) KATHA SANDHI- ANAMIKA AND ALKA SARAOGI: IN CONVERSATION WITH NISHTHA GAUTAM
-ALKA SARAOGI-
a) Hindi author from Kolkata
b) Her first novel Kalikatha via Bypass won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2021.
-ANAMIKA-
a) Hindi poet, writer and translator
b) Notable works- Khurdhuri Hatheliyaan, Doob-dhan
-NISHTHA GAUTAM-
a) Opinions Editor at The Quint
5) DEMOCRACY: THE WARP AND THE WEFT: RONOJOY SEN, YAMINI AIYAR AND MUKULIKA BANERJEE IN CONVERSATION WITH SEEMA SIROHI
-RONOJOY SEN-
a) Senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies and South Asian Studies Programme at the University of Singapore
-YAMINI AIYER-
a) President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research
-MUKULIKA BANERJEE-
a) Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics
-SEEMA SIROHI-
a) Washington DC- based columnist for The Economic Times