India, Jan. 15 -- * Jaipur Literature Festival

The 19th edition draws several Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning writers from around the world. Expect over 500 speakers across 300 sessions. Authors include Kiran Desai, who will speak about her Booker-shortlisted The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. Pulitzer Prize-winner Percival Everett, as well as Javed Akhtar, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Banu Mushtaq, Viswanathan Anand, Stephen Fry and Richard Flanagan, among others.

"What excites me most is the extraordinary range of dialogues and conversations that will unfold - from reimagined classics and urgent debates on geopolitics and AI, to luminous poetry, bold new fiction and groundbreaking developments in the humanities," says author and festival or...