Jaipur Literature Festival

Jaipur Literature Festival
Jaipur Literature Festival
Genre	Literary festival
Location(s)	Diggi Palace, Jaipur, India
Years active	2006 – present
Website	jaipurliteraturefestival.org

The Jaipur Literature Festival, or JLF, is an annual literary festival^[1] which takes place in the Indian city of Jaipur each year in the month of January. It was founded in 2006.^[2]

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.

The festival directors are the writers Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple and is produced by Sanjoy Roy of Teamwork Arts. The Festival is an Initiative of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation (JVF) founded by Faith Singh,^[3] 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.^[1] JVF's Community Director Vinod Joshi is its regional advisor. All events at the festival are free and not ticketed.

In 2012, a number of events occurred related to the Salman Rushdie and the Satanic Verses controversy.^[4]

A number of events created by the organisers of JLF, loosely named JLF International, have taken place in other cities around the world.

^ ^a ^b "Writes of passage". Hindustan Times. India. 30 January 2008. Archived from the original on 15 November 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
^ Gearing, Jes, "Literacy in India & the Jaipur Literature Festival" Archived 10 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine, 25 January 2010: "Today marks the end of the 5th annual Jaipur Literature Festival.... First organized in 2005...."
^ "In the throes of joy". The Hindu. India. 20 January 2006. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
^ Banker, Ashok (30 January 2012). "Luetic Marxists For Levite Maharajahs". Outlook India. Retrieved 27 February 2017.

[writes-1] "Writes of passage". Hindustan Times. India. 30 January 2008. Archived from the original on 15 November 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2008.

[2] Gearing, Jes, "Literacy in India & the Jaipur Literature Festival" Archived 10 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine, 25 January 2010: "Today marks the end of the 5th annual Jaipur Literature Festival.... First organized in 2005...."

[3] "In the throes of joy". The Hindu. India. 20 January 2006. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 12 August 2008.

[4] Banker, Ashok (30 January 2012). "Luetic Marxists For Levite Maharajahs". Outlook India. Retrieved 27 February 2017.

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