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The Travel Session | Colin Thubron, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sam Miller, Yuvan Aves, and Divrina Dhingra in conversation with William Dalrymple | Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival 2024
Presented by Rajasthan Tourism
Travel writing is among the most ancient forms of literature. It allows invaluable social, cultural and political insight. It can signify personal journeys and growth, the intricate histories of places and peoples, and even the power and limits of the mind. Colin Thubron, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sam Miller, Yuvan Aves and Divrina Dhingra discuss their work, inspirations and choice of genre with writer, historian and Festival Co-Director, William Dalrymple.
Colin Thubron is an acclaimed travel writer and novelist, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His travel books concern Russia, China and Central Asia, and include Behind the Wall, In Siberia, Shadow of the Silk Road and most recently The Amur River: between Russia and China. From 2008 to 2017, he served as President of the Royal Society of Literature.
Nicholas Shakespeare is a prize-winning British novelist and biographer whose works have been translated into 22 languages. His 1994 novel, The Dancer Upstairs, was adapted into a film by John Malkovich, featuring Javier Bardem. His most recent publication is the critically acclaimed authorised biography of Ian Fleming.
Sam Miller was born and brought up in London, but has spent much of his adult life on the move. He is a former BBC correspondent in India, and continues to work, on and off, for the BBC’s international charity, BBC Media Action. He is the author of two books about India. Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity and A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes, as well as a family memoir, Fathers. His latest book is Migrants: the Story of Us All.
Yuvan Aves writes, teaches, learns, and lives where the landscape merges with mindscape. He is a multi-award winning writer, nature-educator and environmental defender, and the managing trustee of Palluyir Trust for Nature Education and Research.
Divrina Dhingra is a writer and journalist. A graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism, she has previously worked at Elle, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar magazines in India. She has also worked at the Indian fragrance brand The Perfume Library.
William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
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