If you are a literary freak like me, you must be literally jumping up and down coz Jaipur Literature Festival is not far away now. Wohooo! *falls on the ground*
So, you already have checked out the first and the second list of speakers at JLF 2017 (and for the ones, who haven’t till now, click here). And, now the third list of 10 speakers is out. And, I cannot contain my excitement. *breathe*

It’s the 10^th year for Jaipur Lit Fest, and it’s just growing with each year. Already a host of 1300 speakers in the last decade, this year, Diggi Palace Hotel, Jaipur will be welcoming over 250 authors, thinkers, politicians, journalists, and popular culture icons.

Without much ado, here’s the third set of speakers that’ll grace the JLF coming January. 

#1

Ajay Navaria

 

Returning to Jaipur Literature Festival is a novelist and short story writer Ajay Navaria, one of the foremost Hindi writers of his generation. His work highlights the hypocrisies and indignities of the caste system. His short story collection Unclaimed Terrain was translated into English and has been critically acclaimed. His other works include short story collections Anya Kahaniyan and Yes Sir, as well as the novel Udhar ke Log.

 

#2

 Manju Kapur 

 

She is a highly acclaimed and prolific Indian author. Her novel Difficult Daughters won the Commonwealth Prize for the Best First Novel, Eurasia region. A Married Woman was shortlisted for the Encore Award, Home for the Hutch-Crossword prize, and The Immigrant was selected shortlisted for the India Plaza Golden Quill Award and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2010. Ye Hai Mohabbatein is the daily serial telecasted on Star Plus in Hindi under Ekta Kapur’s production house Balaji Telefilms which is based on Manju Kapur’s fifth novel Custody.

 

#3

Marcos Giralt Torrente 

 

Marcos Giralt Torrente made his celebrated literary debut with the volume of short stories, Entiéndame (Understand Me). His first novel, París (Paris), was awarded the Herralde Novel Prize and was followed by the novella Nada sucede solo (Nothing Happens On Its Own) and the novel Los seres felices (Happy Beings).

 

#4

Margo Jefferson

 

Making her first visit to Jaipur after appearing at JLF@Boulder is Margo Jefferson, a cultural critic and the author of Negroland: A Memoir and On Michael Jackson. Negroland received the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. In 1995, while a staff writer for The New York Times, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

 

#5

Neelima Dalmia Adhar 

 

Neelima divides her time between writing and pursuing her interests in poetry, Hindu philosophy and the paranormal. Her first book was a biography of her father, the renowned industrialist Ramkrishna Dalmia, entitled Father Dearest: The Life and Times of RK Dalmia, which was a bestseller, garnering international acclaim. Her most recent book, The Secret Diary of Kasturba, is a fictionalized account of the life of the woman behind Mahatma Gandhi and was published on October 1^st, 2016.

 

#6

Alex Ross 

 

Alex Ross is the music critic for The New Yorker and the author of the books The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century and Listen to This. He has received a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Guardian First Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship.   

 

#7

 Ha-Joon Chang 

 

Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at the University of Cambridge. By the end of 2016, his books, including 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism and Economics: The User’s Guide will have been translated into 40 languages and published in 43 countries. His books have sold nearly 2 million copies. He is the winner of the 2003 Myrdal Prize and the 2005 Leontief Prize.

All the students of Economics, are you following?

#8

Roy Foster

 

Historian, writer and Carroll Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, Oxford, Roy Foster will attend the Jaipur Literature Festival for the first time. His book Modern Ireland has been credited in the Guardian as a transforming historical writing. He has also published a two-volume biography of Yeats, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2000, he was a judge for the Man Booker Prize, which was that year awarded to 2016 JLF keynote speaker Margret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin.

 

#9

Linda Colley 

 

Colley is an award-winning historian, academic, author and broadcaster who specializes in post-1700 British history. Her third book, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, won the Wolfson History Prize and her work has been translated into ten languages. Her most recent work, Acts of Union and Disunion, was a BBC Radio Four series and book about what held the UK together and might drive it apart. She has recently written for the Guardian about the implications of Brexit.

#10

Jeremy Paxman 

 

Jeremy Paxman is a British broadcaster, journalist and author who has worked for the BBC since 1972 and is known for his particularly tough interview style – especially used against politicians. (British Arnab Goswami, eh?) He presented ‘Newsnight’ for 25 years, leaving in 2014, and is the question master for the popular quiz show ‘University Challenge’. He has written several books throughout his career, his first, A Higher Form of Killing, was co-written with then BBC colleague and friend Robert Harris. His memoir A Life in Questions was published in October 2016.

Oops! Did I forget to tell ya’ll the dates of JLF 2017? Well, it’s 19^th To 23^rd January 2017.

Watch out for the next list of the speakers, till then,

Sayonara!