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JLF London 2023 – Renaissance, renewal, racism – No literature festival quite like it…?
London Authors, ideas, controversies… often but not always with a South Asian twist and now in its 10th edition here……
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Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) at British Library (London); star names, rising and established to hit capital city…
One of the largest festivals of its type, it brings its caravan of books, authors and ideas to London again……
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JLF London 2022: The Birangonas – Rape as a tactic of terror in Bangladesh war; The Serpent and how he stuck up contact with former C4 TV executive Farrukh Dhondy..
Among the final sessions at this year’s Jaipur Literature Festival in London were sessions on the Bangladesh war of liberation…
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JLF London 2022 – Crime and why we are drawn to it (as readers), celebrated authors discuss their work…
On the final day, the Jaipur Literature Fesival (JLF) brought three quite different writers together to explore an alleged double…
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JLF London 2022: Anita Rani on being ‘The Right Sort of Girl’ and “brown in a white world and white in a brown world”…
There were sessions on Ukraine, writing a memoir (Howard Jacobson) and recipes gleaned from communities close to the Himalayas and…
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JLF London 2022 – Literature festival returns to in-person and sees novelist Monica Ali discuss ethnicity, physicality and sexuality in her novel, ‘Love Marriage’…
Three day weekend festival has started and welcomes old names and new… By Mamie Colfox OFTEN referred to as the…
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Book Bird Bites: Nikesh Shukla; Jhalak Prize; ‘Tangled in Terror’; JLF ends – British Library next; and comic Sukh Ojla debut novel
Make yourself heard – Write better Nikesh Shukla NOVELIST and writing guru Nikesh Shukla has a new book out.‘Your Story…
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Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF 2022): Monica Ali on her new novel ‘Love Marriage’, exploring culture ‘clash’, Islamophobia and opens up about the ‘shame’ of writing…
Often referred to as the world’s biggest literary festival, this year it is a mix of digital sessions and in…
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ACV Lockdown Listings: Bagri’s Open Up artists interviews; London Indian Film Festival exclusive; Neil Gaiman-JLF ‘Good Omens’ session; Refugee Week end; Summer Solstice Festival; Buddhadeb Dasgupta chat and Leicester kids picks
Eagle eyes on what’s out there online… Art Visiting an art gallery still isn’t possible in many parts of the…
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ACV Lockdown Listings – curtain raisers for JLF at the British Library, ‘The Forgotten Kingdoms of India’; Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Choked’; Great British Black and Other experiences in ‘The Uncertain Kingdom’; and Tan France…
This is the time to delve far and wide, and explore new worlds… Literature It was one of the highlights…
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