The 2009 festival is scheduled to be held in the famed Pink City of Jaipur - India, from 21 - 25 of January. The list of authors who have confirmed their presence at what is now seen to be Asia's foremost literary event includes Vikram Seth, Pico Iyer, Michael Ondaatje, Simon Schama, Tina Brown, Marie Brenner, Hanif Kureshi, Hari Kunzru, Pankaj Mishra, Patrick French, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Tarun Tejpal, Sashi Tharoor, U R Ananthmurthy, Alka Saraogi, Ahmed Rashid, Alok Rai, Anuragh Mathur, Arupa Patangia, Aruna Chakravarti, Arshia Sattar, Ashok Vajpayi, Asish Nandy, Basharat Peer, Charles Nicoll, Christophe Jafferlot, Claire Muireann Murphy, Colin Thubron, Daniyal Mueenudin, Geetanjali Shree, Mohsin Hamid, Mohammed Hanif, Mukul Kesavan, Musharraf Ali Farooqui, Narayana Rao, Nasreen Munni Kabir, Navdeep Suri, Nikita Lalwani, Paul Zacharia, Pavan K Varma, Puspesh Pant, Rana Dasgupta, S R Faruqui, Tariq Ali, Tash Aw, Udayan Vajpayi, Nalini Jamila, Farah Khan, James V Hart