Ready, set, read. Jaipur Literary Festival returns to Seattle with diverse offerings Katie Campbell September 07, 2025 / 9:00 am

The Jaipur Literature Festival is returning to Seattle this month.

The festival, based in India, attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Since its humble start in 2006, it has expanded to cities all over the world. Last year, for the first time, Seattle was among them.

"Seattle is a city of readers. It's a city of thinkers. It's a city of storytellers," said Alka Kurian, executive director of JLF Seattle. "Bringing JLF to this city felt absolutely natural, because it connects our community with global conversations about literature, about democracy, the environment, history, politics, food, culture, and what have you, and all of that reson

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