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 …
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. …
