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21/11/22 13:40 PM IST

Urdu writer Khalid Jawed wins 2022 JCB Prize for Literature

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  • Author Khalid Jawed’s “The Paradise of Food”, translated by Baran Farooqi from Urdu, won the fifth JCB Prize for Literature.
  • Jawed received the prize money of Rs 25 lakh along with a trophy, a sculpture by Delhi artist duo Thukral and Tagra, “Mirror Melting”.
About JCB Prize 
  • A shortlist like none other in the award’s history, which only included translation, also featured International Booker-winning novel “Tomb of Sand” by Geetanjali Shree (translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell) and “Imaan””by Manoranjan Byapari (translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha).
  • It was also for the first time that titles in Hindi and Nepali made it to the shortlist of the literary award.
  • The shortlist also included debut books — ‘Song of the Soil” by Chuden Kabimo (translated from Nepali by Ajit Baral) and “Valli” by Sheela Tomy, (translated from Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil).
  • Each of the shortlisted authors also received Rs 1 lakh, and the translators Rs 50,000.
  • The award was instituted by the JCB Literature Foundation, a not-for-profit company, in 2018 to promote the art of literature in India.
Source- The Print 

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