Jury For The JCB Prize For Literature, 2023 Announced
One of India’s most coveted literary awards, the JCB Prize for Literature is in its 6th year. They announced its 2023 jury recently.
The jury panel will be chaired by Srinath Perur, author and translator.
The jury consists of Mahesh Dattani, playwright and stage director, Somak Ghoshal, author, critic, and learning designer, Kavery Nambisan, author and surgeon, and, Swati Thiyagarajan, conservation journalist and filmmaker.
The jury brings a variety of perspectives to the process of choosing the greatest fiction from India for the year, representing a variety of origins, languages, and literary genres. The JCB Prize for Literature is funded by JCB India Ltd, the top producer of construction and earthmoving machinery in India, and is overseen by the JCB Literature Foundation.
The 2022 JCB Prize for Literature was awarded to The Paradise of Food by Khalid Jawed, translated from Urdu by Baran Farooqi, and published by Juggernaut.
The JCB Literature Foundation has made the book and the other four 2022 selected novels available in a digitally accessible format for anyone on the visually challenged spectrum in an effort to broaden readership.
The jury will announce the longlist of ten titles in September (subject to change), followed by the shortlist of five titles in October (subject to change) 2023. The winner of the Rs 25 lakh prize will be announced at the awards ceremony in November 2023. If the winning work is a translation, the translator will be awarded an additional Rs 10 lakh. Each of the five shortlisted authors will receive Rs 1 lakh; if a shortlisted work is a translation, the translator will receive Rs 50,000.
For more information, please visit: www.thejcbprize.org