JCB shortlist announced, Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’ nominated

This is the first time in the five-year-old award’s history that Hindi, Urdu and Nepali have featured on JCB shortlist

Written by Udbhav Seth

New Delhi | Updated: October 21, 2022 06:42 PM IST

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The JCB Prize for Literature 2022, one of the most prestigious literary awards for contemporary Indian fiction, has announced its shortlist, featuring five works of translations (Source: PR Handouts)

The JCB Prize for Literature 2022, one of the most prestigious literary awards for contemporary Indian fiction, has announced its shortlist, featuring five works of translations: Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell (Penguin Random House India); The Paradise of Food by Khalid Jawed, translated from Urdu by Baran Farooqi (Juggernaut); Song of the Soil by Chuden Kabimo, translated from Nepali by Ajit Baral (Rachna Books India; FinePrint, Nepal); Imaan by Manoranjan Byapari, translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha (Aleph Books); and Valli by Sheela Tomy, translated from the Malayalam (Harper Perennial).

The JCB Prize for Literature 2022, is one of the most prestigious literary awards for contemporary Indian fiction (Source: PR Handouts)

Bengali and Malayalam have featured on previous JCB shortlists, but this is the first time in the five-year-old award’s history that Hindi, Urdu and Nepali have made it.

The longlist was announced on September 3 and the winner, who will be awarded Rs 25 lakh, will be announced on November 19. The judges are journalist and editor AS Panneerselvan, (Chair); author Amitabha Bagchi; author and academician Rakhee Balaram; translator, historian and academician, J Devika; and author Janice Pariat. Each book on the shortlist, according to the judges, carries a “strong sense of the geographic locations they represent.”

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