In September 2025, the Jaipur Literature Festival USA will embark on a five-city tour, featuring prominent authors and cultural figures from around the globe.
The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) USA is set to return this September with an exciting five-city tour across the United States. This year’s festival will showcase a diverse array of literary and artistic luminaries, including renowned figures such as Shekhar Kapur, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Kiran Desai, and William Dalrymple, among others.
Presented by Teamwork Arts, the producer of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival and JLF International Festivals, JLF USA will take place from September 5 to September 27, 2025. The festival will kick off in Houston, Texas, and will subsequently travel to New York, Boulder, Colorado, Seattle, and North Carolina.
For over a decade, JLF USA has been a significant part of Teamwork Arts’ international offerings. Following successful editions in Valladolid, Spain, and London in June 2025, the festival is poised to create more connections through literature and dialogue during its U.S. journey. Each edition serves as a platform for powerful conversations, robust discourse, and cultural dialogue, featuring writers, thinkers, historians, scientists, and artists from around the world.
This year’s festival will delve into a variety of themes, including diasporic identities, migration and displacement, gender issues, democracy, medicine, film adaptations, memoir writing, and sacred verse. Key speakers will include Shekhar Kapur, Amish, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Sonora Jha, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Kiran Desai, Prajakta Koli, William Dalrymple, Kal Penn, Neal Katyal, Meenakshi Ahamed, Ruby Lal, Vikram Vij, and Maneet Chauhan.
“JLF USA platforms voices from across the world and champions their coming together to celebrate the written word, explore innovative ideas, and uphold the spirit of dialogue, diversity, and shared understanding,” said Sanjoy K. Roy, Managing Director of Teamwork Arts.
The festival is celebrated for its open and welcoming atmosphere, fostering a deep sense of community while showcasing South Asia’s unique multilingual literary traditions. Each city in the tour promises an immersive experience, featuring powerful sessions, eclectic performances, and engaging conversations that resonate with attendees.
JLF USA provides unparalleled exposure to some of the world’s leading professionals, thinkers, authors, nation-builders, business leaders, distinguished professors from prestigious universities, and senior research students. Typically, around 80 percent of the festival’s attendees are aged between 30 and 60 years and are based in the United States.
This year’s festival is being held in association with the Consulate General of India in Houston, New York, and Seattle, as well as the City of Boulder in Colorado. JLF North Carolina is supported by the University of North Carolina’s Carolina Asia Center, the Modern Indian Studies Initiative, the College of Arts and Sciences, Carolina Performing Arts, and other public and private partners across the state.
The festival will take place in various locations across the five cities:
In Houston, the festival will run from September 5 to 7, 2025, at notable venues such as the Asia Society Center, Rothko Chapel, Eternal Gandhi Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in collaboration with the local literary arts nonprofit, Inprint.
New York will host the festival from September 8 to 10, 2025, at the Asia Society, the National Arts Club, and the Center for Fiction.
Boulder, Colorado, will welcome the festival on September 13 and 14, 2025, at the Boulder Public Library.
Seattle will host its edition from September 19 to 21, 2025, at the Seattle Asian Art Museum and Town Hall Seattle.
Finally, North Carolina will conclude the festival with events on September 26, 27, and 28, 2025, at the University of North Carolina, supported by the Carolina Asia Center.
As the festival approaches, anticipation builds for what promises to be an enriching celebration of literature, culture, and community.
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