The Paradise of Food wins JCB Prize for Literature
The HinduThe 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 little bit of a stranger in India today, she said it needed people to spread the word because this “stranger has many things to say.” In a review in The Hindu, Shafey Kidwai had written that the novel uses food as a central trope to blur the lines between reality, fantasy and memory. All the books “bring forth the many Indias across time and geography, representative of the spectrum of languages… that India has to offer,” said Mita Kapur, Literary Director, of the JCB Prize for Literature.
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