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Celebrated Tamil novelist Perumal Murugan has won the JCB Prize for Literature 2022 for his novel Fire Bird, translated from the Tamil into English by Janani Kannan. The novel was published by Penguin Random House India.

The winning author will receive Rs 25 lakh, and the translator, Rs 10 lakh.

Tamil writer Perumal Murugan won the JCB Prize for Literature for his book Fire Bird on Saturday. The book has been translated into English from Tamil by Janani Kannan.

This is the fifth and final of the Scroll Books and Ideas video interviews with the shortlisted authors and translators of the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.

The Shortlist features three translations, a debut novel and debut translation. Each shortlisted author will get Rs 1 lakh and an additional Rs 50,000 for the translator if the finalist book happens to be a translated work. The winner will be announced on November 18 and shall take away Rs 25 lakh.

The shortlisted authors are Tejaswini Apte-Rahm, Manoranjan Byapari, Perumal Murugan, Vikramajit Ram, and Manoj Rupda.

The five books on the 2023 JCB Prize shortlist script the torsions of a nation that is witnessing an unprecedented social churn.

The fifth in the series of podcast interviews with the authors and translators longlisted for the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.

The longlist for the sixth edition of the Prize features four translations, three debut novels and marks the return of authors Manoranjan Byapari and Perumal Murugan, whose works have been previously longlisted twice for the Prize, and of previously longlisted author Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar as a translator.

Of the 10 novels on the list, three are debuts and four are translations