The Jaipur Literature Festival is the most important literary festival in India and one of the largest free literary festivals in the world. It is tier one for authors and literary influencers even though it is not a trade book fair. Writers, publishers, journalists, and a very large public audience gather for five days of conversations, usually at Diggi Palace and venues across the city. The 2027 dates are not yet published. This listing uses 28 January to 1 February 2027, the festival's usual late-January week. That window sits just after the New Delhi World Book Fair, which makes a Delhi-then-Jaipur trip practical if the final dates hold. For BooksAffair the value is authors, festival programmers, and the publishers who host them, plus the audience that treats the festival as a reading event. It is not the place to staff a sales stall; it is the place to meet the people who shape Indian and international literary attention.