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The Art of Biography: Alexandra Harris, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Indira Peterson, Nicholas Shakespeare, Victor Sebestyen and Lucy Hughes-Hallett Alexandra Harris is a literary critic and art historian. Her books include Romantic Moderns, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, Weatherland, which was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and adapted for BBC radio, and an introduction to Virginia Woolf. She is Professor of English at the University of Birmingham and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, TV presenter and author. His History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years won the 2010 Cundill Prize, the world's largest prize for history, and his latest BBC2 series was Sex and the Church. He was knighted in 2012. His biography of Thomas Cromwell is forthcoming. Indira Viswanathan Peterson is Professor Emerita at Mount Holyoke College. She has published widely on Sanskrit, Tamil and Marathi literature and the performing arts. Major translations include Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints and Arjuna and the Hunter: Bharavi's Kiratarjuniya. She is currently working on monographs on the cultural innovations of Serfoji II of Tanjore, Kuravanji and south Indian dance dramas and a translation of the Tamil novel Tillana Mohanambal. Nicholas Shakespeare has been described by the Wall Street Journal as 'one of the best English novelists of our time'. His nonfiction includes the authorised biography of Bruce Chatwin, In Tasmania and Priscilla. His most recent book is Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister. Victor Sebestyen has covered the wars in former Yugoslavia and the collapse of the USSR for several British newspapers. He has written for The New York Times and was an editor at Newsweek. Apart from Lenin the Dictator, he is the author of Twelve Days, a History of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, Revolution 1989 and 1946: The Making of the Modern World. Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio, The Pike, won all three of the UK's most prestigious awards for nonfiction. Her novel, Peculiar Ground, has been acclaimed for its compelling story-telling and the light it sheds on the urgent contemporary issues of migration and exclusion. The Art of Biography How do you research and write someone else's life and pin that life to the page? Biographers of and experts on figures as diverse as Lenin, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Cranm er, Serfoj and Bruce Chatwin discuss techniques and obsessions with Lucy Hughes-Hallett. THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the 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. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 sessions: https://bit.ly/3bZZgaD Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFes... Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/