Jaipur Literature Festival 2025: All you need to know about dates, venues and speakers

From January 30 to February 3, 2025, Hotel Clarks Amer will host the 18th edition of this renowned gathering, promising engaging conversations, music and heritage all under one roof.

Jaipur Literature Festival 2025: Everything you need to know about dates, venues and speakers

Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) will return in 2025 with a vibrant mix of ideas, literature, culture and conversations. Widely considered “the greatest literary show on Earth”, the festival attracts writers, thinkers, poets and readers from all over the world. Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming edition of this prestigious festival.

speaker at jlf

With over 300 speakers – including Nobel laureates, Booker Prize winners, authors and global thinkers – JLF is bringing the best minds under one (very festive) roof. Co-directed by literary icons William Dalrymple and Namita Gokhale, the festival is a love letter to literature and a fusion of cultures, languages and ideas, embracing languages like Bengali, Hindi, Rajasthani, Tamil and even Sanskrit. Is. These include Andre Aciman, Anirudh Kanisetty, Anna Funder, Ashwini Kumar, Kaveri Madhavan, Claudia De Rama, David Nicholls, Fiona Carnarvon, Ira Mukhoti, Irenoshen Okojie, Jenny Erpenbach, Abhijit Banerjee, Kallol Bhattacharjee, Maithri Wickramasinghe, Manav Kaul, Miriam . Margolis, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Nathan Thrall, Stephen Greenblatt, Tina Brown, Venky Ramakrishnan, and Yaroslav Trofimov.

Music, Markets, and more

If you think JLF is all serious literary business, think again. Expect an Incredible Lineup Jaipur Music Stage 2025, the sonic soul of the festival, will present a breathtaking evening of performances from artists across genres. The evenings running parallel to the main event from January 30 to February 1 will come alive with tunes from artists like Kamakshi Khanna, Sushila Raman and artists like Sam Mills, Nathu Lal Solanki and Chugge Khan. And for the grand finale, Kailash Kher’s Kailasha will enthrall the audience.