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The &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Jaipur Literature Festival&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, or &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;JLF&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, is an annual [[literary festival]]&amp;lt;ref name=writes&amp;gt;{{cite news&lt;br /&gt;
|url =http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/272771.aspx&lt;br /&gt;
|title =Writes of passage&lt;br /&gt;
|date = 30 January 2008&lt;br /&gt;
|access-date =23 April 2008&lt;br /&gt;
|work=Hindustan Times |location=India}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; which takes place in the [[India]]n city of [[Jaipur]] each January. It was founded in 2006.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Gearing, Jes, [http://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/2010/01/25/literacy-in-india-the-jaipur-literature-festival/ &amp;quot;Literacy in India &amp;amp; the Jaipur Literature Festival&amp;quot;], 25 January 2010: &amp;quot;Today marks the end of the 5th annual Jaipur Literature Festival.... First organized in 2005....&amp;quot;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; It is the world&amp;#039;s largest free literary festival.&amp;lt;ref name=guardian_salman_pulls_out/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Diggi Palace|The Diggi Palace Hotel]] serves as the main venue of the festival, with sessions held in the Hall of Audience and throughout the gardens of the Diggi Palace in the city centre.&lt;br /&gt;
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The festival directors are the writers [[Namita Gokhale]] and [[William Dalrymple (historian)|William Dalrymple]] and it is produced by Sanjoy Roy of Teamwork Arts. Surina Narula is the Founder Sponsor and Festival Advisor for the literature festival. The Festival is an Initiative of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation (JVF) founded by Faith Singh,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news&lt;br /&gt;
|url =http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/01/20/stories/2006012002190400.htm&lt;br /&gt;
|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20081020084454/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/01/20/stories/2006012002190400.htm&lt;br /&gt;
|url-status =dead&lt;br /&gt;
|archive-date =20 October 2008&lt;br /&gt;
|title =In the throes of joy&lt;br /&gt;
|date = 20 January 2006&lt;br /&gt;
|access-date =12 August 2008&lt;br /&gt;
|work =[[The Hindu]]&lt;br /&gt;
|location=India}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; originally as a segment of the Jaipur Heritage International Festival in 2006, and developed into a free-standing festival of literature standing on its own feet in 2008.&amp;lt;ref name=writes/&amp;gt; JVF&amp;#039;s Community Director Vinod Joshi is its regional advisor. All events at the festival are free and not ticketed.&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2012, a number of events occurred related to the [[Salman Rushdie]] and [[The Satanic Verses controversy|the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Satanic Verses&amp;#039;&amp;#039; controversy]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?279623 |title=Luetic Marxists For Levite Maharajahs |first=Ashok |last=Banker |date=30 January 2012 |work=[[Outlook India]] |access-date=27 February 2017}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A number of events created by the organisers of JLF, loosely named JLF International, have taken place in other cities around the world.&lt;br /&gt;
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==History, timeline==&lt;br /&gt;
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===2006===&lt;br /&gt;
The 2006 inaugural Jaipur Literature Festival featured 18 writers, including [[Hari Kunzru]], [[William Dalrymple (historian)|William Dalrymple]], [[Shobhaa De]] and [[Namita Gokhale]] and 14 others.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?230952 &amp;quot;Pen On The Rostrum &amp;quot;], OutlookIndia.com, 17 April 2006&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; It drew a crowd of about 100 attendees, some of whom &amp;quot;appeared to be tourists who had simply got lost&amp;quot;, according to the event&amp;#039;s co-director William Dalrymple.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.bt.com.bn/art-culture/2010/02/01/literary-festival-draws-big-stars &amp;quot;Literary festival draws big stars&amp;quot;] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113222910/http://www.bt.com.bn/art-culture/2010/02/01/literary-festival-draws-big-stars |date=13 November 2013 }}, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Brunei Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, 1 February 2010.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===2007===&lt;br /&gt;
In 2007 the festival grew in size and featured [[Salman Rushdie]], [[Kiran Desai]], [[Suketu Mehta]], [[Shashi Deshpande]], and [[William Dalrymple (historian)|William Dalrymple]].&lt;br /&gt;
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===2008===&lt;br /&gt;
In 2008 the festival continued to expand with about 2,500 attendees&amp;lt;ref name=jlf2008&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/archives/review-2008/ |title=Review 2008 |publisher=Jaipurliteraturefestival.org |access-date=26 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and the following authors/speakers: [[Ian McEwan]], [[Donna Tartt]], [[John Berendt]], [[Paul Zacharia]], [[Indra Sinha]], [[Uday Prakash]], [[Christopher Hampton]], [[Manil Suri]], [[Miranda Seymour]]&lt;br /&gt;
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===2009===&lt;br /&gt;
The 2009 festival had about 12,000 attendees and over 140 authors/speakers&amp;lt;ref name=About2009&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/archives/review-2009/review-2009/ |title=About the festival &amp;#039;09 |publisher=Jaipur Literature Festival |access-date=1 October 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110128194107/http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/archives/review-2009/review-2009/ |archive-date=28 January 2011 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; including [[Vikram Seth]], [[Pico Iyer]], [[Michael Ondaatje]], [[Simon Schama]], [[Tina Brown]], [[Hanif Kureshi]], [[Hari Kunzru]], [[Pankaj Mishra]], [[Tariq Ali]], [[Ahmed Rashid]], [[Patrick French]], [[Mohsin Hamid]], [[Mohammed Hanif]], [[Wendy Doniger]], [[Sunil Gangopadhyay]], [[Tarun Tejpal]], [[Sashi Tharoor]], [[U R Ananthmurthy]], [[Alka Saraogi]], Anuragh Mathur, [[Ashok Vajpeyi]], [[Ashis Nandy]], [[Basharat Peer]], [[Charles Nicoll]], [[Christophe Jaffrelot]], [[Colin Thubron]], [[Daniyal Mueenuddin]], [[Geetanjali Shree]], [[Mukul Kesavan]], [[Musharraf Ali Farooqui]], G. T. Narayana Rao, [[Nikita Lalwani]], [[Paul Zacharia]], [[Pavan K Varma]], [[Rana Dasgupta]], [[S R Faruqui]], [[Tash Aw]], Udayan Vajpeyi, [[Farah Khan]] and [[Sonia Faleiro]],&amp;lt;ref name=jlf2009&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/archives/review-2009/2009-authors/ |title=Speakers &amp;#039;09 |publisher=Jaipur Literature Festival |access-date=1 October 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012043544/http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/archives/review-2009/2009-authors/ |archive-date=12 October 2011 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; with music provided by DJ [[Cheb i Sabbah]], [[Nitin Sawney]], [[Salman Ahmad]] ([[Junoon (band)|Junoon]] Unplugged), [[Shye Ben Tzur]], [[Rajasthan Roots]], [[Paban Das Baul]] and others in evening concerts over the five days.&amp;lt;ref name=About2009/&amp;gt; The special theme was the oral tradition, in India and elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;
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===2010===&lt;br /&gt;
The 2010 festival had about 30,000 attendees&amp;lt;ref name=jlf2010&amp;gt;[http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/archives/program/about-the-festival-09/ About the Festival ’10]&amp;lt;!--URL says 09&amp;#039; but goes to 10&amp;#039; page .. if changes, check http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/archives for correct URL--&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and 172 authors/speakers, including [[Geoff Dyer]], [[Henry Louis Gates Jr.]], [[Jamaica Kincaid]], [[Niall Ferguson]], [[Vikram Chandra (novelist)|Vikram Chandra]] and [[Hemant Shesh]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/category/attending-authors/ |title=2010 Attending Authors |publisher=Jaipurliteraturefestival.org |access-date=26 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===2011===&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Gulzar javedakhtar prasoonjoshi.jpg|thumb|Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, and Prasoon Joshi at Jaipur Literature Festival 2011]]&lt;br /&gt;
The 2011 festival had 226 writers like [[Hemant Shesh]], [[Prasoon Joshi]], Javed Akhtar, Gulzar /speakers, including Nobel-winners [[J. M. Coetzee]] and [[Orhan Pamuk]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/category/speakers-2011/ |title=2011 Festival: Attending Speakers |publisher=Jaipurliteraturefestival.org |access-date=26 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===2012===&lt;br /&gt;
{{see also|The Satanic Verses controversy}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Salman Rushdie 2011 Shankbone.JPG|right|thumb|100px|[[Salman Rushdie]] cancelled his complete tour of India citing possible threats to his life as the primary reason]]&lt;br /&gt;
The 2012 festival was held from 20 to 24 January, with the talk-show host [[Oprah Winfrey]] and author [[Salman Rushdie]] among the names announced in advance.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url=http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/program-2011/speakers-2012/#o |title=2012 Speakers |publisher=Jaipurliteraturefestival.org |access-date=26 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125234432/http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/program-2011/speakers-2012#o |archive-date=25 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Rushdie later cancelled, and indeed cancelled his complete tour of India, citing possible threats to his life as the primary reason.&amp;lt;ref name=guardian_salman_pulls_out&amp;gt;{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/20/salman-rushdie-jaipur-literary-festival?intcmp=239|title= Salman Rushdie pulls out of Jaipur literary festival over assassination fears|author= Burke, Jason|date= 20 January 2012|work=The Guardian |location=England|access-date=20 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url= http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-20/india/30646521_1_jaipur-literature-festival-salman-rushdie-satanic-verses|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121201171235/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-20/india/30646521_1_jaipur-literature-festival-salman-rushdie-satanic-verses|url-status= dead|archive-date= 1 December 2012|title= Salman Rushdie not to attend Jaipur Literature Festival|author= Singh, Akhilesh Kumar|date= 20 January 2012|location=India|work= [[The Times of India]]|access-date=20 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16644782|title= Salman Rushdie pulls out of Jaipur literature festival|date= 20 January 2012|work=BBC News|access-date=20 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Rushdie investigated police reports that [[Hitman|hitmen]] had been hired to [[assassinate]] him and implied that the police might have exaggerated the potential danger.&amp;lt;ref name=virtual_rushdie_unwelcome/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Police said that [[Ruchir Joshi]], [[Jeet Thayil]], [[Hari Kunzru]] and [[Amitava Kumar]] fled Jaipur on the advice of officials at the Jaipur Literature Festival after reading excerpts from &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Satanic Verses]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, which is banned in India.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url= http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-23/jaipur/30655383_1_jaipur-literature-festival-hari-kunzru-organizers|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120205203714/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-23/jaipur/30655383_1_jaipur-literature-festival-hari-kunzru-organizers|url-status= dead|archive-date= 5 February 2012|title= Salman Rushdie shadow on Jaipur Literature Festival: 4 authors who read from &amp;#039;The Satanic Verses&amp;#039; sent packing|author1=Singh, Akhilesh Kumar |author2=Chowdhury, Shreya Roy |date= 23 January 2012|location=India|work= [[The Times of India]]|access-date=23 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Kunzru later wrote, &amp;quot;Our intention was not to offend anyone&amp;#039;s religious sensibilities, but to give a voice to a writer who had been silenced by a death threat&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/22/i-quoted-satanic-verses-suport-rushdie?intcmp=239|title= Why I quoted from The Satanic Verses|author= Kunzru, Hari|date= 22 January 2012|work= The Guardian|access-date=22 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A proposed video link session between Rushdie and the Jaipur Literature Festival ran into difficulty after the government pressured the festival to stop it.&amp;lt;ref name=virtual_rushdie_unwelcome&amp;gt;{{cite web |url= http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-24/jaipur/30658450_1_rushdie-video-video-link-satanic-verses|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130116101750/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-24/jaipur/30658450_1_rushdie-video-video-link-satanic-verses|url-status= dead|archive-date= 16 January 2013|title= Jaipur Literature Festival: Even a virtual Rushdie is unwelcome for Rajasthan govt|author= Singh, Akhilesh Kumar|date= 24 January 2012|location=India|work= [[The Times of India]]|access-date=24 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Rushdie expressed disappointment &amp;quot;on behalf of India&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;an India in which religious extremists can prevent free expression of ideas at a literary festival, in which the politicians are too, let&amp;#039;s say, in bed with those groups...for narrow electoral reasons, in which the police forces are unable to secure venues against demonstrators even when they know the demonstration is on its way&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url= http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-25/india/30662363_1_religious-extremists-salman-rushdie-satanic-verses|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131113223604/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-25/india/30662363_1_religious-extremists-salman-rushdie-satanic-verses|url-status= dead|archive-date= 13 November 2013|title= Politicians in bed with extremists for electoral gains|date= 25 January 2012|location=India|work= [[The Times of India]]|access-date=25 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/24/salman-rushdie-attacks-indian-politicians?intcmp=239|title= Salman Rushdie goes on offensive after Indian festival appearance is cancelled|author= Burke, Jason|date= 24 January 2012|work=The Guardian |location=England|access-date=24 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The Chairman of the Press Council of India and former judge of the Supreme Court [[Markandey Katju]] said that although he was &amp;quot;not in favour of religious [[obscurantism]]&amp;quot;, he found Rushdie a &amp;quot;poor&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;substandard writer&amp;quot; and the focus on him detracting from more fundamental issues of &amp;quot;colonial inferiority complex&amp;quot; among educated Indians and what a literary mission could be about.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url= http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-25/india/30662303_1_jaipur-literature-festival-satanic-verses-justice-katju|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131113223629/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-25/india/30662303_1_jaipur-literature-festival-satanic-verses-justice-katju|url-status= dead|archive-date= 13 November 2013|title= Salman Rushdie is poor, substandard writer: Justice Katju|date= 25 January 2012|location=India|work= [[The Times of India]]|access-date=25 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Scottish novelist [[Allan Massie]] wrote, &amp;quot;The response to words should be words and words in the form of argument, not abuse&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url= http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/allanmassie/100059953/salman-rushdie-and-the-jaipur-literary-festival-the-zealots-have-triumphed-again/|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120128153903/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/allanmassie/100059953/salman-rushdie-and-the-jaipur-literary-festival-the-zealots-have-triumphed-again/|url-status= dead|archive-date= 28 January 2012|title= Salman Rushdie and the Jaipur Literary Festival: the zealots have triumphed again|author= Massie, Allan|date= 25 January 2012|work=The Telegraph |location=England|access-date=25 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Peter Florence]], Director, [[Hay Festival]]s, said the whole affair showed the importance of book festivals.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9040969/Salman-Rushdie-case-shows-importance-of-book-festivals.html|title= Salman Rushdie case shows importance of book festivals|author= Florence, Peter|date= 26 January 2012|work=The Telegraph |location=England|access-date=26 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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On 28 January, Rushdie responded to [[Chetan Bhagat]] via [[Twitter]] after the popular writer taunted him and his work.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url= http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-29/india/30675796_1_chetan-bhagat-tweet-satanic-verses|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131017030654/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-29/india/30675796_1_chetan-bhagat-tweet-satanic-verses|url-status= dead|archive-date= 17 October 2013|title= Rushdie, Chetan in tweet war|date= 29 January 2012|location=India|work= [[The Times of India]]|access-date=29 January 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===2015===&lt;br /&gt;
The 2015 festival was scheduled from 21 to 25 January. Earlier that year it had been reported that the tentative list of speakers this season would number 181, including [[V. S. Naipaul]], [[Chetan Bhagat]] and [[Amish Tripathi]]. The festival also expanded beyond the four walls of Diggi Palace, holding more than 300 events in 10 venues, including the Music Stage at Clarks Amer, the Jaipur BookMark at Narain Niwas, and two special sessions at [[Amer Fort]] and [[Hawa Mahal]] to focus on heritage and culture, supported by [[Rajasthan Tourism]]. Notable sessions of the festival in 2015 included two packed sessions each for Nobel Laureate Sir V. S. Naipaul and former [[President of India]], Dr [[APJ Abdul Kalam]], who drew a 5,000-strong crowd to the Front Lawns of Diggi Palace.&lt;br /&gt;
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===2016===&lt;br /&gt;
The Jaipur Lit Fest 2016 began at the Diggi Palace as scheduled, with [[Gair dance]] from [[Barmer, Rajasthan]] accompanied by a crowd that had been waiting since early morning.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Banerjee, Anirbaan, [http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/5-reasons-to-not-miss-jaipur-literature-festival-2016/1/575642.html &amp;quot;5 reasons to not miss the Jaipur Literature Festival 2016&amp;quot;], &amp;#039;&amp;#039;India Today&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, 20 January 2016.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Chief Minister, [[Vasundhara Raje]], inaugurated the festival by lighting the ceremonial lamp, and reminisced about her childhood memories of reading books.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/jaipur-literature-festival-kicks-off-margaret-atwood-wows-audience/articleshow/50667636.cms &amp;quot;Jaipur Literature Festival kicks off, Margaret Atwood wows audience&amp;quot;], &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Economic Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, 21 January 2016.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; In this year, the Jaipur Literature Festival entered into the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Limca Book of Records]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== 2017 ===&lt;br /&gt;
Notable speakers at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2017 included writers [[Shashi Tharoor]] and [[Nassim Nicholas Taleb]].&lt;br /&gt;
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===2018===&lt;br /&gt;
The 2018 Jaipur Literature Festival was organised from 25 to 29 January at the [[Diggi Palace]] in [[Jaipur]]. The biggest yet, the event saw participation from more than 380 people from across the world, who represented over 20 international and 15 Indian languages. The participants included authors, novelists, essayists, actors, politicians, musicians, lyricists, film directors, historians, scientists, broadcasters, businesspersons, poets, translators, marketers, journalists, publishers, playwrights, critics, academics, civil servants, dancers, therapists and activists. Among the prominent speakers at the 2018 edition were [[Helen Fielding]], [[Hamid Karzai]], [[Shashi Tharoor]], [[Anurag Kashyap]], [[Chetan Bhagat]], [[Chitra Mudgal]], [[Kota Neelima]], [[Nayantara Sahgal]], [[Prasoon Joshi]], [[Rajdeep Sardesai]], [[Roly Keating]], [[Tom Stoppard]], [[Sagarika Ghose]], [[Sharmila Tagore]], [[Sheila Dikshit]], [[Shobha De]], [[Soha Ali Khan]], [[Vinod Dua]], [[Vir Sanghvi]] and [[Vishal Bhardwaj]]. Apart from lectures, book discussions, debates, book readings and book launches, the 2018 Jaipur Literature Festival also featured a music stage, headlined by [[Kailash Kher]], and a theatrical dance performance at [[Hawa Mahal]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== 2019 ===&lt;br /&gt;
The Jaipur literature festival 2019 was organised in royal [[Diggi Palace|Diggi palace]] Jaipur from 24 to 28 January 2019. Around 300 speakers were expected to visit Jaipur literature festival 2018–2019, including prominent writers such as &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Shobha de&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (known for her bold writing style), &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Anuradha Roy&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Indian novelist, journalist), &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Chitra Banerjee&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (best known for her novel The palace of illusions). Some of the speakers including &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Manisha Koirala&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Indian actress), &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Mithali raj&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Indian women cricket team captain) would be the attraction of the festival who would talk about the journey and the challenges of their life. Here are few more names of Jaipur literature festival 2018–2019 are:&lt;br /&gt;
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# Jon Lee Anderson (American biographer, author&amp;amp;nbsp; investigative reporter)&lt;br /&gt;
# Juergen Boos (CEO of the Frankfurt Book Fair)&lt;br /&gt;
# Marc Quinn(British visual artist)&lt;br /&gt;
# Markus Zusak (international bestselling author of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Book Thief&amp;#039;&amp;#039;)&lt;br /&gt;
# Molly Crabapple&lt;br /&gt;
# N. S. Madhavan (Malayalam fiction-writer and columnist)&lt;br /&gt;
# Narendra Kohli (dramatist and comedian)&lt;br /&gt;
# NoViolet Bulawayo&lt;br /&gt;
# Perumal Murugan (Tamil author and literary speaker)&lt;br /&gt;
# Priyamvada Natarajan (astronomer and professor at Yale)&lt;br /&gt;
# Andre Aciman (author, memoirist, professor, known for the novel &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Call Me By Your Name&amp;#039;&amp;#039;)&lt;br /&gt;
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=== 2020 ===&lt;br /&gt;
The Jaipur Literature Festival 2020 took place at the royal [[Diggi Palace]] from 23 to 27 January 2020. Around 300 speakers attended the Festival.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/speakers JLF: Speakers]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== 2021 ===&lt;br /&gt;
The Jaipur Literature Festival 2021 took place Virtual edition from 19 to 28 February 2021.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web|title=Jaipur Literature Festival 2021 going to be held virtually|url=https://www.prfire.co.uk/press_releases/jaipur-literature-festival-2021-going-to-be-held-virtually|access-date=2021-01-23|website=PR Fire|language=en-GB}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Around 200 speakers are scheduled to attend the Festival.&lt;br /&gt;
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== JLF International ==&lt;br /&gt;
Over the years, related events have also taken place at various times in: [[Boulder, Colorado]]; [[Houston|Houston, Texas]]; [[Adelaide|Adelaide, Australia]];&amp;lt;ref name=Adelaide/&amp;gt; the [[British Library]] in [[London]] (annually 2014-2019);&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|url =http://jlflitfest.org/zee-jlf-at-british-library|website =British Library |title = About ZEE JLF British Library|access-date =16 June 2019}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and [[New York City]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite news|url=https://asiasociety.org/texas/jaipur-literature-festival-makes-its-texas-debut-asia-society-texas-center|title=Jaipur Literature Festival Makes Its Texas Debut at Asia Society Texas Center|work=Asia Society|access-date=2018-09-23|language=en}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_31780530/boulder-agrees-give-up-20k-matching-grant-jaipur|title=Boulder agrees to give up to $20K in matching grant to Jaipur Literature Festival|access-date=2018-09-23}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The November 2018 event in Adelaide was the first of an annual recurrence, presented as part of the [[OzAsia Festival]].&amp;lt;ref name=Adelaide&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://jlflitfest.org/adelaide/about|website=JLF in Adelaide: Each other&amp;#039;s stories|title=About JLF in Adelaide|access-date=30 April 2019}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist|30em}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* {{Official website|http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/}}&lt;br /&gt;
==Further reading ==&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.rajasthanevent.com/jlf/jaipur-literature-festival/ JLF 2020 - Jaipur Literature Festival] (Rajasthan Event, 2020) &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1956246,00.html In Jaipur, the Indian Book Market Comes Into Its Own, 2010] &amp;#039;&amp;#039;TIME&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_jaipur-literature-festival-bigger-yes-but-better_1500708 Jaipur Literature Festival: Bigger, yes, but better?] (DNA India) &lt;br /&gt;
*{{cite web|url=http://www.ichronicle.in/jaipur-lit-fest-speakers/|title=Let literature blow its trumpets! 181 speakers!! |publisher=ichronicle.in}}&lt;br /&gt;
*{{cite news |work =The Statesman|title=The Promise that winter brings|url=http://www.thestatesman.com/news/features/the-promise-that-winter-brings/104862.html#voXouxrbwRUwQLbV.9|issue=New Delhi|date=19 November 2015}}&lt;br /&gt;
*[https://jaipurfever.com/jaipur-literature-festival-2018-2019/  Everything you need to know about Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 – 2019] (Jaipur fever) &lt;br /&gt;
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