KR Meera, Shubhangi Swarup, Aruni Kashyap and Arunava Sinha | IndLit: Many Languages, One Literature

IndLit: Many Languages One Literature: KR Meera, Shubhangi Swarup, Aruni Kashyap and Arunava Sinha

KR Meera is a writer and winner of Kendra and Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards. Her novel Aaraachaar has sold around 150,000 copies and its translation, Hangwoman, was shortlisted for The DSC Prize. Her works include The Poison Of Love, The Gospel Of Yudas, The Unseeing Idol Of Light, Yellow Is The Colour of Longing and The Angel's Beauty Spots.

Shubhangi Swarup is a novelist, educationist and most recently, a playwright. Latitudes of Longing, her debut novel won the Sushila Devi Woman Writer of the Year Award and the Tata Lit Live Debut Fiction Award, and is shortlisted for the Hindu, Crossword and JCB prizes. In 2020, the novel will be published in the United States and the United Kingdom along with translations in 12 international languages.

Aruni Kashyap is a writer and translator. He is the author of His Father’s Disease and Other Stories, Noikhon Etia Duroit and The House With a Thousand Stories. He won the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh and his poetry collection, There is No Good Time for Bad News was a finalist for the 2018 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and 2018 Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. Over 50 of his translations have been published so far. His recent and forthcoming translations include Kunal Basu's The Endgame, Bani Basu's Moom, Taslima Nasrin's Shameless, Akhtaruzzman Elias's Khwabnama and Desire for Fire: Modern Bengali Poetry in Translation.

The landscape of Indian literature is multilingual and multivocal with 22 official languages and thousands of mother tongues and dialects. A session that interrogates and celebrates the unity in this diversity with three celebrated writers reading from their works, in Malayalam, Assamese and English, as they discuss the literary and linguistic context of their inspirations

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The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access.

Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.

Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.

Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.

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