New York, The US and Canadian editions of Jaipur Literature Festival will bring together over 100 global voices across seven cities next month, including author-politician Shashi Tharoor and Pulitzer-winning writer Kai Bird.
“In 2014, Jaipur Literature Festival went international and began with the first JLF in London.
The programme will also feature a travelling visual art exhibition by documentary photographer Vicky Roy, with his work to be presented in Los Angeles and Seattle, the organisers said. The organisers said working with local institutions and cultural organisations was a defining feature of the international festival, making each edition a series of locally rooted encounters rather than a uniform touring programme.
Since then, the strength of JLF international has grown leaps and bounds and is now held across the world, fusing the multilingual literary heritage of South Asia with the distinct flavour of the host regions,” the JLF website notes.
