Khalid Jawed\'s novel wins JCB Lit Prize
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: Celebrated Urdu litterateur Khalid Jawed's novel The Paradise of Food, translated by Baran Farooqi, has just won the prestigious JCB Prize for Literature. A landmark Urdu classic known for its radical, experimental form and savage honesty, Paradise uses the idiom of food, cuisine and eating to tell the story of a middle-class Muslim joint family over a span of fifty years. As India – and Islamic culture – hardens, the narrator, whose life we follow from boyhood to old age, struggles to find a place for himself, at odds in his home and in the world outside. The winner was chosen from a shortlist of five by a jury comprising journalist and editor A.S. Panneerselvan ; author Amitabha Bagchi; author and academician Rakhee Balaram; translator, historian and academician, J. Devika; and author Janice Pariat.
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