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Jaipur Literature Festival announces impressive second tranche of speakers

• List includes celebrated culinary expert Madhur Jaffrey, Pulitzer Prize winner Dexter Filkins, Condé Nast Chairman Nicholas Coleridge and acclaimed author Elizabeth Gilbert

HIGHLIGHTS

• Second tranche of 25 speakers announced - The Festival announced its second list of 25 speakers out of over 250 speakers expected to attend the 2020 edition. The second list featuresAnand Gopal, Anuradha Bhagwati, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Åsne Seierstad,Bruno Maçães, Devangana Dash, Dexter Filkins, Elizabeth Gilbert, Fintan O'Toole, Keshava Guha, Leïla Slimani, Lemn Sissay, Madhur Jaffrey, Neelum Saran Gour, Nicholas Coleridge, Parvati Sharma, Peter Frankopan, Paul Muldoon, Peter Hessler,Ravish Kumar, R.Gopalakrishnan, Roshan Ali, Shekhar Pathak, Simon Armitage and  Supriya Gandhi.
• Early Bird offers on Delegate Experience – A special early bird discount of 25% is being offered on the Festival Delegate Experience. The offer is valid until 30^th November 2019.
• Jaipur BookMark Announces iWrite – The B2B arm of the Festival, Jaipur BookMark (JBM) announced the 2^nd edition of the iWrite programme for emerging writers in September 2019. Shortlisted participants will get a platform to share their work and receive constructive guidance from international publishers, literary agents, translators and other industry experts in a pitching session at Jaipur during JBM through the platform. The last date for submitting entries for iWrite 2019 is December 10, 2019.