The JCP Prize for literature, an annual book award that celebrates Indian writing has published their 2021 long list.
The winner of the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature will be announced on 13th November. If the winning work is a translation, the translator will receive an additional Rs 10 lakh. Each of the 5 shortlisted authors will receive Rs 1 lakh; if a shortlisted work is a translation, the translator will receive Rs 50,000.
This year’s entries include:
- A Death in Sonagachhi by Rijula Das (Pan Macmillan, 2021)
- What We Know About Her by Krupa Ge (Westland, 2021)
- Anti-Clock by V.J. James, translated from Malayalam by Ministhy S. (Penguin
- Name Place Animal Thing by Daribha Lyndem (Zubaan Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2021)
- The Plage Upon Us by Shabir Ahmed Mir (Hachette India, 2020)
- Delhi: A Soliloquy by M. Mukundan, translated from Malayalam by Fathima E.V. & Nandakumar K. (Westland, 2020)
- Gods and Ends by Lindsay Pereira (Penguin Random House India, 2021)
- The Man Who Learnt to Fly but Could Not Land by Thachom Poyil Rajeevan, translated from Malayalam by P.J. Mathew (Hachette India, 2020)
- The Dharma Forest by Keerthik Sasidharan (Penguin Random House India, 2020)
- Asoca by Irwin Allan Sealy (Penguin Random House India, 2021)