ABOUT JLF LONDON at the British Library -2024
JLF London at the British Library will be back this year - from 7th - 9th June, 2024, with an exciting line-up of speakers and sessions.
Hosted at the prestigious British Library, JLF London is a cross-cultural voyage in which we bring a mix of literary narratives and inspirational speakers from around the world.
In February 2024, the 17th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival was held at Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur. The five-day Festival, held annually in the Pink City of Jaipur, is a celebration of the power of words and ideas amid a riot of colour, music, art and cuisine, through discourse and debate.
As always, JLF London will embody the multi-faceted spirit of the Jaipur Festival, with its grand ideal of inclusiveness and community, and be back at the heart of London with a caravan of writers and thinkers, poets, balladeers and raconteurs, who will bring alive South Asia’s unique multilingual literary heritage at the British Library.
Over the last decade, at JLF London, we have offered over 600 sessions, combining oral and performing arts, books and ideas, conversation and debate, cinema, current affairs and politics & geopolitics.
The 2023 edition, that celebrated ten years of the London festival,featured prominent speakers, including author and journalist Deepa Annaparra, journalists Jonathan Freedland and Luke Harding, author and historian Tom Holland, editor and novelist Vauhini Vara, Noble laureate Venki Ramakrishnan, film director and screenwriter Vishal Bhardwaj, singer Usha Uthup, among others.
The upcoming edition of JLF London 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.
We discuss democracy, elections and geopolitics, the psychology of war and matters of the ‘Present Tense’. We take an emotional journey across 50 years of modern Indian cinema and speak of the science of ageing and the nourishing and heartwarming nature of food. We celebrate art and the everlasting impact of museums; diaspora writing and readings across time.
BRITISH LIBRARY
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's greatest research libraries. Its collection has developed over 250 years and exceeds 150 million separate items representing every age of written civilisation and includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound recordings in all written and spoken languages.
Meet some of the British Library’s greatest treasures online. Explore some of the greatest writers and their work at Discovering Literature and astonishing collections of Sacred Texts. The Library also looks after South Asian collections of extraordinary range and diversity, and works to share these with the world through importantdigitisation
Continuing the Library’s vibrant cultural programme, its current major exhibition is Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music.
