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.

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