30 January - 3 February 2025 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur

Jaipur Literature Festival 2025

Described as the ‘greatest literary show on Earth’, the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past 17 years have 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.

As the years pass and the Festival grows, our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic platform offering access to all. 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. Writers and Festival Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Festival producer Teamwork Arts, invite speakers to take part in the five-day programme set in the historic and dynamic state capital Jaipur.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature 2024 hosted award-winning writers, speakers, and thinkers from across the globe. 

The spectacular edition  was held at Jaipur’s Hotel Clarks Amer. A splendid success, it was a true literary marathon and encompassed an impressive line-up of insightful sessions, music, book signings, and the simultaneously held Jaipur BookMark and Jaipur Music Stage.

Festival Directors and Producer

Namita Gokhale

Festival Director

William Dalrymple

Festival Director

Sanjoy K. Roy

Festival Producer & MD Teamwork Arts

Festival Recap 2024

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS

Over 250 million

Festival Digital Reach

Over 25 million

Festival Digital Views

5000

Media Coverage

What Our Attendees Say!

The Jaipur Literary Festival is part-circus, part-postgraduate seminar and part-revolutionary assembly.

Lawrence Norfolk

The greatest literary show on Earth.

Tina Brown

The most fabulous literary love-fest on the planet.

Simon Schama

Seeing school students, in uniform, on a Saturday, peppering esteemed journalists and politicians with erudite and wide-ranging questions was brilliant.

Meredith Curnow
Literature festivals are really good because it is the only place where as a writer, you get treated like a rockstar
Sohaila Abdulali
This is an audience which likes to listen to what we have to share as authors, it likes to engage with us not only simply during the session but also afterwards when the session is over!
Kunal Basu
Books and music are two of my favourite pleasures in life. A festival that brings two of these ultimate forms of human expression together is just wonderful!
Nandini Swaminathan
We were there performing on the Jaipur Music Stage and it was magical!
Ankur Tewari
I think that the Jaipur Literature Festival has become a literary milestone in India. I think it will be very difficult to talk about our culture, particularly our book culture, without referring to the Jaipur Literature Festival
Shashi Tharoor
It's not just books, it is the whole experience which makes it one of its kind. You cannot get this anywhere else!
Nitin
Books and Music are two if my favourite pleasures of life, Festival that brings two of these together is just wonderful.
Nandini Swaminathan
At a cultural level you see a mix of India here. At intellectual level, you see a mix of fiction, nonfiction, academic and political ... a very very diversily satisfying experience
Rakshit Malik
Its great to see young people really interested, quite a few of them ask very intriguing questions.
Ajeet Sundaresh