JCB Literature Prize longlists this year's '10 most distinguished novels'
6 years, 6 months ago

JCB Literature Prize longlists this year's '10 most distinguished novels'

The Quint  

New Delhi: Novelist Vivek Shanbhag and film director Deepa Mehta at the JCB Prize for Literature longlist announcement ceremony, in New Delhi on Sept 5, 2018. New Delhi: Novelist Vivek Shanbhag and film director Deepa Mehta unveil the longlist of the JCB Prize for Literature, in New Delhi on Sept 5, 2018. New Delhi, Sep 5 Two novels in translation, two by debut women authors, two by established writers previously nominated for the Man Booker Prize, along with four other novels have made it to the longlist of the inaugural edition of the JCB Prize for Literature. The jury consists of award-winning film director Deepa Mehta, entrepreneur and scholar Rohan Murthy, Yale University astrophysicist and writer Priyamvada Natarajan, novelist Vivek Shanbhag, and author and translator Arshia Sattar.

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Upamanyu Chatterjee’s book wins JCB Prize
4 months ago

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s book wins JCB Prize

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life by Upamanyu Chatterjee published by Speaking Tiger Books has been announced the winner of the 2024 JCB Prize for Literature, and awarded the 25-lakh rupee prize. The coveted trophy, which is a sculpture by Delhi artist duo, Thukral and Tagra, titled “Mirror Melting”, was awarded to Upamanyu Chatterjee. The prestigious award …

JCB Prize Shortlist Unveiled: Five Novels in Running for the 2024 Award
5 months ago

JCB Prize Shortlist Unveiled: Five Novels in Running for the 2024 Award

Live Mint  

The 2024 JCB Prize for Literature shortlist has been announced, featuring five novels and one debut work by an Indian author. The winner will receive a cash prize of ₹25 lakh, while the translator of the winning entry will receive a cash prize of ₹10 lakh. Each author on the list receives ₹1 lakh, and if the shortlisted piece is …

International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist revealed, check full list
11 months, 2 weeks ago

International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist revealed, check full list

India TV News  

The International Booker Prize, celebrating the best-translated fiction from around the world, has revealed its 2024 shortlist. South Korea: Veteran author Hwang Sok-yong's "Mater 2-10," translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae, celebrates Korean resilience in the face of adversity. Brazil: Itamar Vieira Junior's debut novel, "Crooked Plow," translated by Johnny Lorenz, sheds light on the significance of land …

The JCB Prize for Literature announces its 2023 shortlist
1 year, 5 months ago

The JCB Prize for Literature announces its 2023 shortlist

Live Mint  

The JCB Prize for literature announced its shortlist for 2023 at an event in Jaipur this evening. Mita Kapur, the literary director of the JCB Prize said that the shortlist “beautifully captures the kaleidoscope of India's literary landscape”. The shortlist is comprised of: The Secret of More by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm The Nemesis by Manoranjan Byapari, translated from …

Meet the stars: A journey through 2023’s JCB Prize shortlist
1 year, 5 months ago

Meet the stars: A journey through 2023’s JCB Prize shortlist

The Hindu  

The JCB Prize for Literature, a ₹25-lakh award presented each year for a distinguished work of fiction, has announced its shortlist for 2023. It’s the perfect time to revisit the books that have made the cut, and to look at some of the common themes in each of these book — themes that tie together the shortlist, albeit loosely, while …

JCB Prize for Literature: Debut Novelists and Translations Shine in 6th Year
1 year, 6 months ago

JCB Prize for Literature: Debut Novelists and Translations Shine in 6th Year

Deccan Chronicle  

Marking its sixth year, the JCB Prize for Literature has included three debut novelists amongst its list of titles as well as four translations from Bengali, Hindi and Tamil languages. They include The Secret of More by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm, The Nemesis by Manoranjan Byapari, translated from Bengali by V. Ramaswamy, The East Indian by Brinda Charry, Simsim by Geet Chaturvedi, …

JCB Prize for Literature: Translations shine once again in the longlist
1 year, 6 months ago

JCB Prize for Literature: Translations shine once again in the longlist

Live Mint  

The JCB Prize for Literature, an award celebrating India’s literary excellence, has unveiled its sixth edition’s longlist. Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, also longlisted in the past, returns a translator for Manoj Rupda’s Hindi book, I Named My Sister Silence. The jury has hailed it as a novel of “epic stature told with great beauty and brevity”, and that its power can …

Bank of Baroda Rashtrabhasha Samman Award is the newest literature prize in India
1 year, 9 months ago

Bank of Baroda Rashtrabhasha Samman Award is the newest literature prize in India

The Hindu  

Announcing nominations for a newly instituted literary prize for Hindi translations of books written in Indian languages, the Bank of Baroda Rashtrabhasha Samman Award 2023 has become the latest entrant to the club that has grown rapidly over the past 15 years. Mita Kapur, literary director of the JCB Prize for Literature, says the focus of the award is to …

The Paradise of Food wins JCB Prize for Literature
2 years, 4 months ago

The Paradise of Food wins JCB Prize for Literature

The Hindu  

The Paradise of Food by Khalid Jawed, translated from the Urdu Nemat Khana, has won the ₹25 lakh prize 2022 JCB Prize for Literature. The JCB Prize jury, chaired by A.S. Panneerselvan, said it is a brutal and mesmerising account of the contemporary body, home and nation told through food and the kitchen. Pointing out that Urdu has become a …

JCB Prize 2022 shortlist: Can translators be editors?
2 years, 4 months ago

JCB Prize 2022 shortlist: Can translators be editors?

Live Mint  

The JCB Prize for Literature announced its 2022 shortlist on 21 October. Kabimo’s 2019 Nepali book Faatsung was translated into English by Baral as Song Of The Soil. But I didn’t know this story would embark on a long journey, which I am beginning to realise now. But I could have never imagined that I would translate it into English, …

The Hindu on Books | Talking to George Saunders, the JCB shortlist and more
2 years, 5 months ago

The Hindu on Books | Talking to George Saunders, the JCB shortlist and more

The Hindu  

This article forms a part of The Hindu on Books newsletter which brings you book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. “…in the States, we can’t even agree on what is true anymore, so that sort of kaleidoscopic effect needs to be represented,” and he feels his stories with a lot of different stances within the book, do …

JCB Prize for Literature 2022: 6 translations on the long list
2 years, 6 months ago

JCB Prize for Literature 2022: 6 translations on the long list

Live Mint  

More than half of The JCB Prize for Literature 2022's long list features translations from various languages of the subcontinent into English. The JCB Prize for Literature is one of the biggest literary awards in India and its first winner, in 2018, was also a book in translation – Jasmine Days, a Malayalam novel by Benyamin, translated by Shahnaz Habib. …

Debuts and translations make up the JCB Prize 2021 shortlist
3 years, 5 months ago

Debuts and translations make up the JCB Prize 2021 shortlist

Live Mint  

Three debut novelists and two acclaimed Malayalam writers are the contenders for India's richest prize for literary fiction this year. The jury of the JCB Prize for literature, which confers ₹25 lakh on the winner, announced its shortlist of five titles on Monday, two of which are translations into English. Awarded each year to a work of fiction by an …

NIF announces Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2021 longlist
3 years, 6 months ago

NIF announces Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2021 longlist

Firstpost  

The shortlist of six titles will be announced in the last week of October. The New India Foundation announces the longlist for the fourth edition of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, recognizing and celebrating excellence in non-fiction writings on modern and contemporary India. The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize celebrates high-quality non-fiction literature published in the previous calendar year …

Debut writers, translations rule the JCB Prize longlist 2021
3 years, 6 months ago

Debut writers, translations rule the JCB Prize longlist 2021

Live Mint  

Debut novelists and fiction in translation dominate the the longlist of the 2021 JCB Prize for Literature, which was announced on Monday. Selected by a panel of five judges—author and translator Sara Rai ; designer and art historian Annapurna Garimella; author and translator Shahnaz Habib; journalist and editor Prem Panicker; and writer and podcaster Amit Varma—six of the ten entries …

New India Foundation to award translation fellowships in 2022
3 years, 7 months ago

New India Foundation to award translation fellowships in 2022

Live Mint  

Over the last decade, translations from Indian languages have become the mainstay of English-language fiction publishing in the country, making their presence felt among major literary prizes and travelling to other parts of the world through foreign publishers. Bengaluru-based cultural organization New India Foundation is aiming to redress the situation with a brand-new translations fellowship, to be awarded to three …

Booker Prize 2021: Longlist announced
3 years, 7 months ago

Booker Prize 2021: Longlist announced

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Whether it’s David Dop’s International Booker Prize-winning novel At Night All Blood Is …

Booker Prize 2020: The shortlisted novels you need to read
4 years, 1 month ago

Booker Prize 2020: The shortlisted novels you need to read

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. This is why literary awards are an exciting time to discover new novels …

Malayalam writer S Hareesh wins the ₹25 lakh JCB Prize for Literature 2020
4 years, 4 months ago

Malayalam writer S Hareesh wins the ₹25 lakh JCB Prize for Literature 2020

Live Mint  

Malayalam writer S Hareesh won the ₹25 lakh JCB Prize for Literature 2020 for his first novel Moustache, translated by Jayasree Kalathil. Popular with Malayalam readers for his experimental prose, Moustache, Hareesh's first novel in translation, by HarperCollins India. The JCB Prize for Literature 2020 shortlist included three debut novels among the titles to make it to the final five. …

JCB Prize for Literature 2020: Annie Zaidi, debut novelist Megha Majumdar among writers longlisted for the literary award
4 years, 6 months ago

JCB Prize for Literature 2020: Annie Zaidi, debut novelist Megha Majumdar among writers longlisted for the literary award

Firstpost  

While debut novelists such as Dharini Bhaskar and Megha Majumdar are among the writers longlised for the prize, translated works such as S Hareesh’s Moustache and Ashoke Mukhopadhay’s A Ballad of a Remittent Fever will also be among the works of fiction competing for the award. The longlist for the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature was announced on 1 September, …

JCB Prize for Literature 2019 longlist announced; Perumal Murugan, Roshan Ali among selected novelists
5 years, 6 months ago

JCB Prize for Literature 2019 longlist announced; Perumal Murugan, Roshan Ali among selected novelists

Firstpost  

The longlist of JCB Prize for Literature 2019 comprises an eclectic mix of four women and six men including both debutants and experienced novelists. The longlist for this year’s JCB Prize for Literature has been announced. The novels by Roshan Ali, Amrita Mahale, Mukta Sathe and Madhuri Vijay are all debut entries The jury panel for this year includes filmmaker …

Indian author Jeet Thayil on International Booker Prize judging panel
5 years, 8 months ago

Indian author Jeet Thayil on International Booker Prize judging panel

India TV News  

Award-winning Indian author Jeet Thayil will make up a five-member judging panel for the 2020 International Booker Prize, the world's leading literary award for translated fiction announced in London on Thursday as it opened for submissions for the next year. Kerala-born Thayil, who has previously been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his first novel ‘Narcopolis’, began writing fiction …

Two new Indian literary prizes promise different agendas
6 years, 11 months ago

Two new Indian literary prizes promise different agendas

Hindustan Times  

Barsha Sen was 19 when she stumbled upon The God of Small Things. Two big literary awards were launched earlier this month, both carrying enough prize money and prestige to make a splash in a market where new English fiction is fast losing its sheen and popular titles, guides and celebrity memoirs are grabbing headlines once reserved for literary superstars. …

<I>The Hindu</I> Literary Prize
13 years, 7 months ago

<I>The Hindu</I> Literary Prize

The Hindu  

As a natural extension of this concern with good literature, The Hindu Best Fiction Award was instituted in 2010. There were two panels of judges last year: one to decide the short-list, consisting Shreekumar Varma, novelist, Parvati Nayar, artist and critic, K. Srilata, fiction writer, poet and academic and Ranveer Shah, Founder, Prakriti Foundation Chennai. The eleven short-listed novels were: …

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