Linda Grant at the Jaipur Literature Festival

Linda Grant will be appearing at the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2013. The details of her appearances are below, and you can find more information on the Jaipur Literature Festival website.

24th Jan – 6pm to 7pm
The Novel of the Future
Mohammed Hanif, Nadeem Aslam, Lawrence Norfolk, Howard Jacobson and Linda Grant in conversation with Zoe Heller
The novel has dominated literature since the mid-eighteenth century, taking the central place once occupied by plays, poems and epics. It has weathered the rise of cinema and television but in the digital future, its fate is uncertain. Was the nineteenth century the golden age of the novel, and has it been in decline ever since? Is the novel exhausted, as Naipaul has argued? Will the rise of Kindle and download piracy kill off its means of sustenance? Where does the novel go from here? Mohammed Hanif, Nadeem Aslam, Lawrence Norfolk, Howard Jacobson and Linda Grant in conversation with Zoe Heller.

25th Jan – 6pm to 7pm
The Jewish Novel
Linda Grant, Howard Jacobson, Gary Shteyngart and Andrew Solomon, moderated by Jonathan Shainin
Does the ‘Jewish novel’ really exist? Or are there just individual Jewish novelists? And do great writers always transcend the cultural and religious world they come from? Linda Grant, Howard Jacobson, Gary Shtyengart and Andrew Solomon discuss Jewishness and literature, moderated by Jonathan Shainin.

28th Jan – 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Beautiful Offspring: The Art of Historical Fiction
Linda Grant, Madeline Miller, Philip Hensher and Lawrence Norfolk in conversation with Jeet Thayil
How do you write a novel set in a period of history which ended long before you were born? How important is historical research and realism? Novelists Linda Grant, Madeline Miller, Philip Hensher and Lawrence Norfolk discuss the genre in conversation with Jeet Thayil.