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 be felt viscerally in Shekhar’s translation. Taken together they represent a fine sampling of the breadth and quality of Indian novels published in English over the last year,” states Srinath Perur, chair, jury, in the press note.

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JCB Prize Shortlist Unveiled: Five Novels in Running for the 2024 Award
4 months, 3 weeks 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 …

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The Hindu  

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The JCB Prize for Literature announces its 2023 shortlist
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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 …

Book Review: Manoj Rupda’s ‘I Named My Sister Silence’ provides sharp insights into the ground realities of Adivasi life
1 year, 5 months ago

Book Review: Manoj Rupda’s ‘I Named My Sister Silence’ provides sharp insights into the ground realities of Adivasi life

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 19, 2023 11:00 IST - 5 MINS READ Manoj Rupda’s 2018 Hindi novella, Kaale Adhyay, translated into English by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar under the title I Named My Sister Silence, is in the JCB Prize long-list. I Named My Sister Silence By Manoj Rupda, translated by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar Eka Pages: 180 Price: Rs.499 We are introduced …

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The JCB Prize longlist, Gautam Bhatia on the judiciary, Ranjit Hoskote’s poems and more - The Hindu

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. In reviews, we read Gautam Bhatia’s book on the judiciary between 2014 and 2023, Ulbe Bosma’s history of sugar, Ranjit Hoskote’s new collection of poems, Amrit Mathur’s tales from the Indian cricket dressing room and more. Books of the week In his preface to Unsealed Covers: A Decade of the …

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 longlist has debutants, four works of translation
1 year, 6 months ago

JCB Prize longlist has debutants, four works of translation

The Hindu  

Debut novels and translated works are among the ten longlisted books for the JCB Prize for Literature 2023. Manoranjan Byapari’s Nemesis, translated from the Bengali by V. Ramaswamy, Geet Chaturvedi’s Simsim, translated from the Hindi by Anita Gopalan, Perumal Murugan’s Fire Bird, translated from the Tamil by Janani Kannan, and Manoj Rupda’s I Named my Sister Silence, translated from the …

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 …

English publishing in India is finally discovering the world of Hindi literature
2 years, 1 month ago

English publishing in India is finally discovering the world of Hindi literature

Live Mint  

When Vineet Gill was in his mid-20s and just starting out as a writer a decade ago, he decided to speak in English, one hundred per cent of the time. We usually judge English prose on qualities like beauty or complexity or elegance but when I know it’s implicit translation, I tone it down.” Solanki’s latest work is a “hard-boiled” …

Sahitya Akademi releases winners’ list
2 years, 2 months ago

Sahitya Akademi releases winners’ list

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: The ‘Sahitya Akademi Award’ for 2022 will be given to Anuradha Roy for English Literature, Badri Narayan for Hindi Literature and Praveen Bandekar for Marathi Literature. HT Image Roy won the award for her novel, ‘All the Lives We Never Lived’, Bandekar secured the award for his novel ‘Ujavya Sondechya Bahulya’ and Narayan won this award for his poetry …

Khalid Jawed\'s novel wins JCB Lit Prize
2 years, 4 months ago

Khalid Jawed\'s novel wins JCB Lit Prize

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: 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 …

JCB Prize 2022: The Paradise of Food, an Urdu novel in English, wins
2 years, 4 months ago

JCB Prize 2022: The Paradise of Food, an Urdu novel in English, wins

Live Mint  

Author Khalid Jawed's "The Paradise of Food", translated by Baran Farooqi from Urdu, won the fifth JCB Prize for Literature on Saturday. The book, originally published as "Ne'mat Khana" in 2014, is the fourth translation to win the award and the first work in Urdu. Jawed received the prize money of Rs 25 lakh along with a trophy — a …

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 …

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 shortlist announced
2 years, 4 months ago

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Live Mint  

The New India Foundation has just announced the shortlist for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize. “This year's Shortlist is extraordinary, in terms of the wide range of themes covered, and the diversity of topics and perspectives," said a statement from the jury, chaired by political scientist and author Niraja Gopal Jayal also includes entrepreneur Manish Sabharwal, historian and author …

JCB Prize 2022 shortlist: Is a creative translation good?
2 years, 4 months ago

JCB Prize 2022 shortlist: Is a creative translation good?

Live Mint  

The JCB Prize for Literature announced its 2022 shortlist on 21 October. Jawed’s 2015 Urdu book Ne’mat Khana was translated into English by Farooqui as The Paradise of Food. Khalid Jawed: I’m really satisfied with the way you have translated Ne’mat Khana. 799 KJ: You have thus proved that translating my work too is not such a difficult proposition as …

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, …

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. …

International Booker Prize 2022: Read Geetanjali Shree’s winning novel Tomb of Sand, plus previous top titles
2 years, 9 months ago

International Booker Prize 2022: Read Geetanjali Shree’s winning novel Tomb of Sand, plus previous top titles

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. Read our privacy policy Drumroll please, Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand – translated …

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 …

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. …

Atta Galatta Book Prize 2020 longlist announced for fiction and non-fiction; Bombay Balchão, Hijab among nominees
4 years, 5 months ago

Atta Galatta Book Prize 2020 longlist announced for fiction and non-fiction; Bombay Balchão, Hijab among nominees

Firstpost  

12 fiction and 10 non-fiction titles were longlisted in separate categories for the Atta Galatta prizes in English-language writing. The longlist for the Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize was announced today. The 2020 fiction longlist includes: Bombay Balchão by Jane Borges Chorashastra by VJ James, translated by Morley J Nair Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara …

Kamaladevi Chattopadhayay NIF Book Prize 2020: Katherine Eban, Rajdeep Sardesai among writers longlisted for the literary award
4 years, 5 months ago

Kamaladevi Chattopadhayay NIF Book Prize 2020: Katherine Eban, Rajdeep Sardesai among writers longlisted for the literary award

Firstpost  

Set-up by the New India Foundation, the prize is awarded annually to the best non-fiction book on India. The longlist for the 2020 Kamaladevi Chattopadhayay NIF Book Prize was announced on 30 September with 12 titles and 13 authors competing for the literary award. Award-winning journalist Rajdeep Sardesai’s 2019: How Modi Won India and Stephen Alter’s Wild Himalaya: A Natural …

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 …

In conversation with the DSC Prize winner, Jayant Kaikini and his translator, Tejaswini Niranjana
6 years, 1 month ago

In conversation with the DSC Prize winner, Jayant Kaikini and his translator, Tejaswini Niranjana

The Hindu  

As the countdown to the announcement of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature began in Kolkata on January 25, each shortlisted writer was asked to read out two paragraphs from their books. The translator of Kaikini’s No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories would not let this pass without comment. When Ruskin Bond read out Kaikini’s name as the winner, it …

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, …

Jhumpa Lahiri bags $50,000 DSC Prize for her book 'The Lowland'
10 years, 1 month ago

Jhumpa Lahiri bags $50,000 DSC Prize for her book 'The Lowland'

Firstpost  

Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri on Thursday won the USD 50,000 DSC Prize for Literature, one of South Asia’s top literary awards for her book “The Lowland.” Jaipur: Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri on Thursday won the $50,000 DSC Prize for Literature, one of South Asia’s top literary awards for her book “The Lowland.” The Prize celebrates writing on the South Asian …

The Hindu Literary Prize 2011
13 years, 10 months ago

The Hindu Literary Prize 2011

The Hindu  

The HinduLiterary Review completes two decades of promoting good literature – both in English and in the Indian languages. As part of this commitment, and to recognise and reward outstanding literary talent in Indian Writing in English and works in translation, The Hindu Literary Review has instituted The Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction. All entries should be addressed to …

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