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Elizabeth Gilbert, Leila Slimani, Avni Doshi, John Lanchester, Howard Jacobson and Damian Barr

Where does fiction come from?: Elizabeth Gilbert, Leila Slimani, Avni Doshi, John Lanchester, Howard Jacobson and Damian Barr Elizabeth Gilbert is the number one bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 46 languages, and several other international bestselling books of fiction and non-fiction. Her story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award while The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her follow-up memoir to Eat Pray Love, Committed, became an instant number one New York Times bestseller. She has published two novels, Stern Men and The Signature of All Things, which was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. Leïla Slimani’s first novel Dans le Jardin de l'ogre was published in 2014. Two years later, she won the Prix Goncourt with her second novel, Chanson douce. She is also a journalist, activist and author of the nonfiction book Sexe et mensonges, about the sexual life of Moroccan women. Avni Doshi completed her BA in Art History from Barnard College in New York and went on to do an MA in History of Art at University College London. While working as an art writer and curator in India, she began writing fiction in her spare time. She has been awarded the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize and a Charles Pick Fellowship. Girl in White Cotton is her first novel. John Lanchester’s five novels and four works of nonfiction have won numerous prizes and been translated into 30 languages. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and the London Review of Books. Howard Jacobson has written 16 novels and six works of nonfiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010, he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question and was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J. His latest novel, Live a Little, has been described by the Guardian as ‘wonderful’ and by The Sunday Times as ‘joyous’. Damian Barr’s debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here, uncovers a hidden colonial history in South Africa and tackles present-day darkness. It was a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. His memoir, Maggie & Me, won a Sunday Times Memoir of the Year. Barr hosts his Literary Salon at The Savoy and the ‘Big Scottish Book Club’ for the BBC. Where does fiction come from? What is the process of its creation? How do you make up characters and situations that are believable, and why should the reader care? Five of the world’s most acclaimed novelists —Elizabeth Gilbert, Leila Slimani, Avni Doshi, John Lancaster, and Howard Jacobson— share their insights on the art of the novel with Damian Barr. Presented by Dainik Bhaskar 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. 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:   / jaipurlitfes.  . Twitter:   / jaipurlitfest   Instagram:   / jaipurlitfest