Jaipur Literature 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.
Jaipur BookMark (JBM), held parallel to Jaipur Literature Festival is the B2B platform. It’s the ultimate South Asian book conclave which provides an edge of opportunities to those in the publishing industry on the lookout for new ideas and collaborations.
This year
German author Ulrike Almut Sandig, invited by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, will be part of the
Jaipur Literature Festival as well as the
Jaipur BookMark:
Wednesday, 23rd January - Saturday, 26th January 2019 and will be conducting various sessions.
Session details:
23rd January |17:15-17:45 | Durbar Hall
Poems on the Road by Walking Bookfairs:
Readings by Ulrike Almut Sandig, Akhil Katyal and Sohini Basak introduced by Akshay Bahibala and Satabdi Mishra
24th January |16:45-17:15| Samvad
Book Launch: Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig
25th January |14:30-15:30 | Durbar Hall
Each Others' Stories: Meghna Pant, Sanjeev Sanyal and Ulrike Almut Sandig, moderated by Paul McVeigh
About the artists
Ulrike Almut Sandig: Performance Poet
Ulrike Almut Sandig was born in Großenhain (GDR) in 1979 and now lives with her family in Berlin. She started publishing her poetry by pasting poems onto lamp posts and spreading them on flyers and free post cards. After completing her Magister in Religious Studies and Modern Indology, she graduated from the German Creative Writing Program Leipzig.
She collaborates with filmmakers, composers, sound artists and musicians from all over the world and has won many prizes, including the
Leonce and Lena Prize in 2009 and
the Literary Prize of the Federation of German Industries in 2017. Besides her many radio plays and audio-books of poetry and music she has published two books of short stories—
Flamingos and Book Against Disappearing—and four volumes of poetry.
In 2015 Ugly Duckling Presse (USA) launched a selection of her early poems in English translation. In 2016 Karen Leeder’s stunning translations of Sandig’s poetry
Thick of it (Seagull Books) won the English PEN translation Pitch and have been awarded with an PEN America/Heim Translation Fund Grant. In 2018 she launched her debut album with her Poetry-band LANDSCHAFT and her latest poetry "Grimm" (Hurst Street Press).
For registration and more information:
Jaipur Literature Festival 2019 &
Jaipur BookMark
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