JCB Prize

JCB Prize for Literature is an Indian literary award established in 2018.

[1] It is awarded annually with ₹2,500,000 (US$29,000) 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.

[2] Rana Dasgupta is the founding Literary Director of the JCB Prize.

[4] The JCB Literature Foundation was established to maintain the award.

Benyamin won the prize for the year 2018 for his novel Jasmine Days , originally written in Malayalam and translated into English by Shahnaz Habib .
S. Hareesh won the prize for the year 2020 for his novel Moustache , originally written in Malayalam and translated into English by Jayasree Kalathi .
M. Mukundan won the prize for the year 2021 for his novel Delhi: A Soliloquy , originally written in Malayalam and translated into English by Fathima EV and Nandakumar K.
Khalid Jawed won the prize for the year 2022 for his novel The Paradise of Food , originally written in Urdu and translated into English by Baran Farooqi.