Literature Festival : Jaipur
The Jaipur Literature Festival is celebrated in the month of January in the city of Jaipur, the Pink city. 16th edition of the festival is to be celebrated in 2023. The festival was introduced in 2006 and is the largest free literary festival in the world.
- Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah addressed the festival, Abdul received the Nobel prize in literature in 2021.
- He was honored for his works on the fate of the refugees and the effects of colonialism in the Gulf.
- The Festival is to focus on varied topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, crime fiction, translation, economics, etc.
- Jaipur Literature Festival Celebrated is To bring the literary experts, artists of different fields, and writers to a single platform and to give space for the artists to indulge in a meaningful debate