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Two days of inspiring conversations, ideas, books, music, food and more. And Bridge India is delighted to be a Partner again.
JLF London at the British Library will be back this year, marking its 13th edition, with an exciting line-up of speakers and sessions. Like each year, it will embody the multi-faceted spirit of the mother festival – the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival, with its unique celebration of books and ideas, inclusiveness and sense of community – and be back at the heart of London with a caravan of writers and thinkers, poets, balladeers and raconteurs.
Like all JLF international editions, the London programme too brings alive South Asia’s unique multilingual literary heritage and blends it with local literary highlights.
This year, Bridge India is a Partner for the event once more.
Opening event: Friday 5 June – The Queen of Crime: The Life and Legacy of Agatha Christie with Lucy Foley, James Prichard and Lucy Rowland in conversation with Shrabani Basu (not included in Saturday and Sunday tickets).
Saturday speakers: Tash Aw, Tishani Doshi, Somnath Batabyal, Fredrik Logevall, Gurnaik Johal, Pia Ghosh-Roy, Archana Sharma, Saad Mohseni, Lyse Doucet, Rashmee Roshan Lall, Nikita Gill, Mallika Kapur, Vivek Singh, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Marcus du Sautoy, Sanjoy K. Roy, Ruchir Joshi, Richard Horton, Deborah Lutz, Samantha Ellis, Bee Rowlatt, Noa Avishag Schnall, Alexander McCall Smith, Nandini Das, William Dalrymple, Jeet Thayil
Sunday speakers: Tahmima Anam, Vaseem Khan, Abir Mukherjee, Bee Rowlatt, Bruno Macaes, Sarah Churchwell, Fredrik Logevall, Georgina Godwin, Marina Warner, Samantha Ellis, Namita Gokhale, Somnath Batabyal, Sheena Kalayil, Jeet Thayil, Sanjoy K. Roy, Ben Haggarty, Sara Wheeler, Bruno Macaes, Jeremy Silver, Anita Anand, William Dalrymple
JLF closes on Sunday 7 June (19:00) with a special evening with William Dalyrmple and Anita Anand, co-hosts of the world renowned Empire podcast. Find out more.
Please check back regularly for programme updates, or visit the JLF page.
Passes for each day, or the whole weekend, are now on sale – or for those unable to be in London or not wanting to miss a thing – an online pass that will give you access to the largest sessions live, and everything else soon after, for the next two weeks.
Tickets for the opening session on Friday 5 June are not included in Weekend passes and will be available at a later date.
JLF is one of the world’s great literature events, attracting huge and youthful audiences to the ‘pink city’ of Jaipur in Rajasthan, India, every January. Its Artistic Directors William Dalrymple and Namita Gokhale, co-curate a series of international tasters of this remarkable festival in Europe and America, and the collaboration with the British Library is long established.
When: Fri 5 – Sun 7 June
Where: British Library, 96 Euston Rd., London NW1 2DB
Price: Single day pass £30 | Weekend bundle pass: £54 | Concessions available
Further details: Book here for the weekend or here for the Friday opening session