Venue

: The Wyncote NW Forum
: 1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.)
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Note: ASL interpretation is available for this event.

Live Captioning will be available for this event.

Banner for the first edition of JLF USA in Seattle from September 20th to 22nd, featuring festival dates, social media handles, and the event website, with illustrations of people reading books and the Seattle skyline in the background.

Arts & Culture

In February 2024, the 17th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival took place in the Pink City of Jaipur, Rajasthan. Now you can experience the energy of the Jaipur Festival as it makes its debut in Seattle this year. Spanning over two days, with presentations from literary greats, food vendors, and artists, this literary festival is not to be missed!

JLF International takes place across several countries including the US, UK, Spain, the Maldives, Australia, and the Middle East, merging the multilingual literary traditions of South Asia.

Tickets are $15 for partial-day sessions, or $30 for the full festival. Town Hall Members receive a 20% discount on festival passes (no other discounts are applicable).

View the full schedule below.

Note: Speakers and sessions are subject to change. Click here for the latest information on the festival lineup.

Saturday Morning Session | Saturday, September 21, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 1:45 PM

10:00 to 10:45 AM | My Beloved Life
Amitava Kumar in conversation with Alka Kurian
11:00 to 11:45 AM | Mapping the Heavens: Revealing the Cosmos
Priyamvada Natarajan in conversation with Sanjay Reddy
Presented by AARP
12:00 to 12:45 PM | Fiction, Faction and Uncomfortable Truths
Devika Rege and Ijeoma Oluo in conversation with Sonora Jha
1:00 to 1:45 PM | The Jaipur Trilogy
Alka Joshi in conversation with Indu Sundaresan

Saturday Afternoon Session | Saturday, September 21, 2024 from 2:00 to 5:45 PM

2:00 to 2:45 PM | Court on Trial
Sital Kalantry, William H. J. Hubbard, Andrew Siegal and Pallavi Mehta Wahi in conversation with Judge Ketu Shah
Presented by ZEAN LLC
3:00 to 3:45 PM | When We Talk About Rape
Sohaila Abdulali in conversation with Sanjoy K. Roy
4:00 to 4:45 PM | Culture: A New World History
Martin Puchner in conversation with Anand A. Yang
Presented by AARP
5:00 to 5:45 PM | Irrepressible Shobhaa
Shobhaa De in conversation with Sanjoy K. Roy
Presented by ZEAN LLC

Sunday Session | Sunday, September 22, 2024 from 11:00 AM to 2:45 PM

11:00 to 11:45 AM | Blame It on Eve
Sonora Jha, Cat Bohannon and Namita Gokhale in conversation with Kimberly A.C. Wilson
Presented by ZEAN LLC
12:00 to 12:45 PM | Poetics of the Multiverse
Vijay Seshadri, Navtej Sarna and Shin Yu Pai in conversation with Amber Flame
1:00 to 1:45 PM | The Taste of Memory
Srijith Gopinathan in conversation with Sanjoy K. Roy
Presented by AARP
2:00 to 2:45 PM | Songs of Punjab: Narratives of Resilience
Navdeep Suri and Harpreet in performance
Presented by ZEAN LLC