Jaipur Literature Festival

The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), often hailed as the "greatest literary show on Earth," is a renowned annual cultural and literary festival held in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Established in 2006 by writers Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, it has grown into one of the world’s largest and most prestigious literary gatherings, attracting authors, writers, scholars, artists, critics, thinkers, and readers from across the globe.

The Diggi Palace Hotel in Jaipur used to serve as the main venue of the festival, with sessions held in the Hall of Audience and throughout the gardens of the Diggi Palace in the city centre. From 2022, the festival is organised in the Hotel Clarks Amer in Jaipur. Since then, the festival has shrunk down in size and can no longer make the false claim to be the largest literature festival. Other annual festivals that celebrate literature such as the Sahitya Aajtak have a far wider outreach and footfall, which has been recorded.

The festival is organized by Teamwork Arts and the Jaipur Virasat Foundation, with events traditionally hosted at Diggi Palace, a heritage property in Jaipur. Since 2025, the venue shifted to Hotel Clarks Amer to accommodate its expanding scale. JLF is renowned for its democratic ethos, offering entry to all attendees and fostering intellectual dialogue on literature, art, poetry, music, religion, politics, environment, film, theatre, history, and culture.

In 2012, a number of events occurred related to the Salman Rushdie and the Satanic Verses controversy.

A number of events created by the organisers of JLF, loosely named JLF International, have taken place in other cities around the world.