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 …
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 …
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 …
