JCB Prize for Literature is an Indian literary award established in 2018. It is awarded annually with prize to a distinguished work of fiction by an Indian writer working in English or translated fiction by an Indian writer. The winners will be announced each November with shortlists in October and longlists in September. It has been called ''"India's most valuable literature prize"''.

Rana Dasgupta Rana Dasgupta (born 5 November 1971 in Canterbury, England) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He grew up in Cambridge, England, and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and, as a ...

is the founding Literary Director of the JCB Prize. In 2020, Mita Kapur was appointed as the new Literary Director. The JCB Literature Foundation was established to maintain the award. It is funded by the English construction manufacturing group

JCB JCB may refer to: * JCB (company), a British manufacturer of heavy industrial and agricultural vehicles * JCB Co., Ltd., originally Japan Credit Bureau, a credit card company based in Tokyo, Japan * JCB Prize, a literary award sponsored by the c ...

. Publishers are allowed, per imprint, to enter two novels originally written in English and two novels translated into English from another language.

Honorees

Winners indicated with a blue ribbon (). Benyamin Writer

2018

The inaugural JCB Prize longlist was announced in September 2018. The 5-member shortlist was announced October 2018. The winner was announced October 25, 2018. *

Amitabha Bagchi Amitabha Bagchi is an Indian author, who was awarded DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2019 and shortlisted for JCB Prize for Literature and The Hindu Literary Prize for his novel ''Half the Night is Gone''. He is the author of four novel ...

, ''Half the Night is Gone'' * Benyamin, ''

Jasmine Days ''Jasmine Days'' is a 2014 Malayalam novel by Benyamin and translated into English by Shahnaz Habib. It tells the story of Sameera Parvin, a young Pakistani woman who works as a radio jockey in an unnamed Middle Eastern country which is on the ...

'' (Translated from Malayalam by Shahnaz Habib) * Perumal Murugan, ''Poonachi'' (Translated from Tamil by N Kalyan Raman) *

Anuradha Roy Anuradha may refer to: Film * ''Anuradha'' (1940 film), a 1940 Bollywood film * ''Anuradha'' (1960 film), a 1960 Hindi-language film * ''Anuradha'' (1967 film), a 1967 Indian Kannada film * ''Anuradha'' (2014 film), a 2014 Bollywood drama fil ...

, ''All the Lives We Never Lived'' * Shubanghi Swarup, ''Latitudes of Longing''

2019

The longlist was announced September 2019. The five-member shortlist was announced November 2019. The winner was announced November 5, 2019. *

Roshan Ali Roshan may refer to: People * Roshan (music director) (1917–1967), Indian musician and music director, born Roshan Lal Nagrath * Hrithik Roshan (born 1974), Hindi film actor, son of Rakesh Roshan * Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan (1980–2012), Iranian nu ...

, ''Ib's Endless Search for Satisfaction'' * Manoranjan Byapari, ''There's Gunpowder in the Air'' (Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha) * Perumal Murugan, ''A Lonely Harvest'' and ''Trial by Silence'' (Both translated from Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan) * Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, ''My Father's Garden'' *

Madhuri Vijay Madhuri Vijay is an Indian author living in Hawaii. She is the author of ''The Far Field,'' which won the second JCB Prize for literature, India's most prestigious literary award. Early life Vijay was born and grew up in Bangalore, India. In 20 ...

, ''The Far Field'' S hareesh

2020

The longlist was announced in September, 2020. The shortlist was announced on 25 September 2020. The winner was announced on November 7, 2020. * Deepa Anappara, '' Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line'' * Samit Basu, ''Chosen Spirits'' *

Dharini Bhaskar Dharini (aka ''Whispers of Change'') is a 2002 India Oriya film directed by Susant Misra. Plot Four women in a middle-class traditional household fight for dignity in their own ways. Sarala contracts a sexually transmitted disease from her ...

, ''These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light'' * S. Hareesh, ''Moustache'' (Translated from Malayalam by

Jayasree Kalathil Jayasree Kalathil is an Indian writer, translator, mental health researcher and activist. She is known for her work in the area of mental health activism as well as for her translations of Malayalam works, ''The Diary of a Malayali Madman'' and ' ...

) * Annie Zaidi, ''Prelude to a Riot'' M mukundan in kozhikode

2021

The longlist was announced in September, 2021. The shortlist was announced on October 4, 2021. The winner was announced on November 13, 2021. * VJ James, ''Anti-Clock'' (Translated from the Malayalam by Ministhy S) * Daribha Lyndem, ''Name Place Animal Thing'' * Shabir Ahmad Mir, ''The Plague Upon Us'' * M Mukundan, ''Delhi: A Soliloquy'' (Translated from the Malayalam by Fathima EV and Nandakumar K) * Lindsay Pereira, '' Gods and Ends''

2022

The longlist was announced on 3 September 2023. The shortlist was announced on 21 October 2022. For the first time in five years, all five books on the shortlist were translated books. The winner was announced on 19 November 2022. * Manoranjan Byapari, ''Imaan'' (Translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha) * Chuden Kabimo, '' Song of the Soil'' (Translated from the Nepali by Ajit Baral) * Khalid Jawed, ''The Paradise of Food'' (Translated from the Urdu by Baran Farooqi) * Geetanjali Shree, '' Tomb of Sand'' (Translated from the Hindi by

Daisy Rockwell Daisy Rockwell (born 1969) is an American Hindi and Urdu language translator and artist. She has translated a number of classic works of Hindi and Urdu literature, including Upendranath Ashk's ''Falling Walls'', Bhisham Sahni's '' Tamas'', and ...

) * Sheela Tomy, ''Valli'' (Translated from the Malayalam by

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References

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External links

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