Name: Kolkata International Book Fair 2027 | Events
Start: 2027-01-28T12:00:00+05:30
End: 2027-02-08T20:00:00+05:30
Location: Boi Mela Prangan, Central Park, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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28 Jan

Kolkata International Book Fair 2027

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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The Kolkata International Book Fair, the Boi Mela, is one of the largest public book fairs in the world and a tier-one event for anyone working with Indian readers. The Publishers & Booksellers Guild holds it at Boi Mela Prangan in Central Park, Salt Lake. A guest country, hundreds of stalls, and a dense programme of author talks draw a city that treats the fair as a civic season, not a trade show. The 2027 dates are not yet published. This listing uses 28 January to 8 February 2027, the fair's usual late-January to early-February run of about twelve days, from noon to evening. For BooksAffair the value is the size of the reading public: publishers, authors, and book clubs are in the same grounds as a crowd that comes to buy books. It complements New Delhi, which is more of a national and international publishing platform, by being the deepest single-city reading community on the Indian calendar.