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It is that time of the year when the JCB Prize for Literature announces its shortlist – revealing the best picks of the year in contemporary Indian fiction. This year’s shortlist has been path-breaking, with all five works comprising translations: Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell (Penguin Random House India); The Paradise of Food by Khalid Jawed, translated from Urdu by Baran Farooqi (Juggernaut); Song of the Soil by Chuden Kabimo, translated from Nepali by Ajit Baral (Rachna Books India; FinePrint, Nepal); Imaan by Manoranjan Byapari, translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha (Aleph Books); and Valli by Sheela Tomy, translated from the Malayalam (Harper Perennial).
This story is from the November 2022 edition of Grazia India.
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