NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT

Seattle, WA, September 3, 2025: The Jaipur Literature Competition (JLF), usually described because the “biggest literary present on Earth,” will return to Seattle from September 18–21, 2025, bringing with it a formidable roster of internationally acclaimed writers, thinkers, and performers.

The four-day pageant will unfold throughout a few of Seattle’s most iconic cultural venues — Viya Modern, the Seattle Asian Artwork Museum, and City Corridor Seattle. Audiences can stay up for thought-provoking dialogue, cross-cultural change, and dwell performances that includes literary heavyweights and rising voices alike.

Amongst this 12 months’s featured audio system are Pulitzer Prize–successful novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai (just lately longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize), JLF co-founder and historian William Dalrymple, poet and essayist Arundhati Subramaniam, award-winning journalist John Vaillant, mathematician and science communicator Marcus du Sautoy, journalist and cultural commentator Patrick McGee, and actor-digital creator Prajakta Koli, who additionally serves as UNDP India’s Youth Local weather Champion.

Seattle, designated a UNESCO Metropolis of Literature, has lengthy been acknowledged for its deep literary traditions — from the oral histories of the Coast Salish peoples to its thriving current of unbiased bookstores, residencies, and literary nonprofits. Internet hosting JLF right here additional cements the town’s function as a worldwide hub for literature and concepts.

“Seattle is a metropolis of tales, and JLF Seattle is the place these tales meet the world,” mentioned Alka Kurian, Government Director of JLF Seattle and founding father of TRASAL, the nonprofit presenting the occasion in partnership with Teamwork Arts. “By partnering with Teamwork Arts, we convey collectively native communities and international voices in an area of change, reflection, and pleasure.”

Sanjoy Okay. Roy, Managing Director of Teamwork Arts, added: “JLF has at all times been about democratizing entry to literature and concepts. Bringing this spirit to Seattle, with its vibrant cultural and mental life, strengthens our shared perception within the transformative energy of dialogue.”

JLF Seattle will open with a preview occasion on September 18 at Viya Modern, adopted by a gap night time on the Seattle Asian Artwork Museum on September 19. The principle periods will happen September 20–21 at City Corridor Seattle.

Tickets and program particulars can be found at townhallseattle.org/occasion/jlf-seattle-2025.