![]() ![]() ![]() “This is one of the most beautiful days of my life. The shortlisted authors receive Rs 1 lakh each, and the shortlisted translators receive Rs 50,000 each.īenyamin’s novel Jasmine Days is the tale of a young Pakistani RJ in a Middle Eastern country on the brink of revolution. The winning author, chosen by a jury panel including Vivek Shanbhag, Arshia Sattar, Priyamvada Natarajan and Rohan Murty, receives a cash prize of Rs 25 lakh and the translator receives Rs 5 lakh. ![]() Speaking at the announcement ceremony, Vivek Shanbhag, jury chair of the 2018 JCB Prize, said one of the things the jury members asked themselves time and again was: “Will this book stand the test of time?” The winning entry was chosen from among a shortlist of five novels including Anuradha Roy’s All the Lives We Never Lived, Subhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing, Amitabha Bagchi’s Half the Night is Gone and Perumal Murugan’s Poonachi, translated from the Tamil by N. The winner was announced at a function in New Delhi on Wednesday. ![]() New Delhi: Malayalam writer Benyamin’s novel, Jasmine Days, translated from the Malayalam by Shahnaz Habib, has won the inaugural edition of the JCB Prize for Literature. ![]()
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