India: Jaipur Literature Festival announces an interesting mix of sessions for BookMark

The Jaipur Literature Festival, one of the world’s largest free literary festivals, has announced confirmed list of speakers for its co-located BookMark conference. On 18 January, Rick Simonson will moderate a session titled Synergies of the Glocal. The panel including Alexandra Pringle, Ameena Saiyid, Jo Lusby and Ravi Deecee will discuss how South Asian publishers, within a multilingual and relatively under-resourced publishing industry, can compete with huge global players commanding immense resources.