ABOUT JLF LONDON at the British Library -2025
JLF London at the British Library will be back this year - from 13th - 15th June, 2025, marking its 12th 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.
JLF London at the British Library is a cross-cultural voyage featuring a mix of literary narratives and inspirational speakers from around the world. Over the last decade, the festival has offered over 600 sessions, combining oral and performing arts, books and ideas, conversation and debate, cinema, current affairs and politics & geopolitics. The upcoming edition promises to bring together some of the world's most renowned and relevant voices to speak on essential themes that look at the different dimensions and perspectives of our shared stories.
Speakers 2025
Glimpses of JLF London
Sessions Videos
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JLF London 2024 Teaser: Experience the Magic Before It Unfolds
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Inaugural Address | JLF London 2024
09:15:34Z -
Lost and Found in Adaptations | Shekhar Kapur, Vikas Swarup & Sarah Phelps with Shrabani Basu
09:13:44Z -
Morning Music | Debasmita Bhattacharya with Gurdain Rayatt | JLF London 2024
10:51:46Z -
How the World Made the West | Josephine Quinn in conversation with William Dalrymple
06:01:32Z
What Our Attendees Say!
Lawrence Norfolk
The Jaipur Literary Festival is part-circus, part-postgraduate seminar and part-revolutionary assembly.
Tina Brown
The greatest literary show on Earth.
Simon Schama
The most fabulous literary love-fest on the planet.
Meredith Curnow
Seeing school students, in uniform, on a Saturday, peppering esteemed journalists and politicians with erudite and wide-ranging questions was brilliant.
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