The 2023 JLF Soneva Fushi is set to be an exciting event featuring renowned authors, cultural leaders, and celebrated thinkers coming together to celebrate arts, culture, and performance in the Maldives. The event will be held from May 12th to 21st, 2023, and facilitated by Soneva’s partnership with Teamwork Arts, the producer of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF). Over 2

0 world-renowned authors are confirmed to participate, covering a wide range of topics from nation-building to the natural world, fiction and filmmaking to hard-hitting journalism, astronomy to geopolitics, mental health to poetry, scientific discovery to memoir, and more.

The event will be held over ten days and two weekends and will include panel discussions, workshops, book and poetry readings, keynote addresses, gala dinners, live music performances, special film screenings, curated menus, a

nd interactive workshops aimed to spark creativity and curiosity. Guests can also engage in yoga, meditation, dance workshops, and guided snorkeling tours to explore the flora and fauna. The event promises an intimate and unique experience for guests to connect with authors and build new friendships and stronger bonds.

Confirmed attendees include a star-studded lineup of international authors, including Howard Jacobson, Damon Galgut, Priyamvada Natarajan, Shekhar Kapur, Christina Lamb, Anne Applebaum, William Sieghart, Mary Beard, DBC Pierre, and many others. The event will also feature Sonu Shivdasani OBE, Narnita Gokhale, Radoslaw (Radek) Sikorski, Navtej

Sarna, Peter Frankopan, Muzaffar Ali, Pico Iyer, Sharad P. Paul, Sanjoy K. Roy, William Dalrymple, and Sanjeev Sanyal.