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 …
Man cannot get away from food as apart from being requisite nourishment, cultural practices, myths and rituals sustain the partaking of it. Jawed employs food imagery to explore the characters’ sorrows, anxieties, sexual impulses, repressed feelings and desire for revenge. Here, the orphaned boy Barber’s painful life-altering situation subtly resembles that of Midnight’s Children’s Saleem, who uses taste and smell …
