Redmond O’Hanlon, Nicholas Shakespeare, William Dalrymple | Jaipur Literature Festival

Описание: After Patagonia: Remembering Bruce Chatwin: Redmond O’Hanlon, Nicholas Shakespeare & William Dalrymple

Redmond O’Hanlon is known for his journeys into some of the most remote jungles of the world, in Borneo, the Amazon basin and Congo. He has also written a harrowing account of a trip to the North Atlantic on a trawler. Between September 2009 and May 2010, O’Hanlon was a guest and co-presenter on the programme Beagle: In Darwin’s Wake where re-traced the route that Charles Darwin took aboard HMS Beagle (1831–36), a journey that played a seminal role in his thinking on evolution. He also presented O’Hanlon’s Heroes, in which he introduces the viewer to his heroes of the 19th century. The programme was awarded with the prestigious Dutch television award, De Zilveren Nipkowschijf. He is the author of the books Joseph Conrad and Charles Darwin: The Influence of Scientific Thought on Conrad’s Fiction, Into the Heart of Borneo, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon, Congo Journey, Trawler, with Rudy Rotthier, God and Darwin en natuur (The Fetish Room).

Nicholas Shakespeare has been described by the Wall Street Journal as ‘one of the best English novelists of our time’. His nonfiction includes the authorised biography of Bruce Chatwin, In Tasmania and Priscilla. His most recent book is Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister.

William Dalrymple is a bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, White Mughals, The Last Mughal, Nine Lives, and most recently, Return of a King: An Indian Army in Afghanistan. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the French Prix d’Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone/Crossword Award for nonfiction, and has, prior to the shortlisting of Return of a King, been longlisted three times for the Samuel Johnson Prize. In September 2016, a Hindustani translation of The Last Mughal was released as Aakhri Mughal. His latest book is Kohinoor, co-written with Anita Anand. Dalrymple is one of the founders and a co-director of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival.

After Patagonia: Remembering Bruce Chatwin
When Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia was published in 1977, it heralded the arrival of a startling new talent in literature. Critics were surprised and spellbound by a story of an adventure that blurred the boundaries between travel writing, biography, history and memoir. All readers recognised its timeless quality and it was immediately pronounced a 'classic'. Four decades later, Chatwin's first book continues to inspire generations of travellers and writers. On its 40th anniversary, the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival celebrates the enduring status of In Patagonia in a discussion with his friends Redmond O'Hanlon and William Dalrymple and biographer Nicholas Shakespeare.

THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL
Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas.

Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.

Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.

Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.

The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally.

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