In photos: The evening Khalid Jawed won the JCB Prize for Literature 2022 at a ceremony in New Delh
Author Khalid Jawed and translator Baran Farooqi won the 2022 prize for the novel ‘The Paradise of Food’, originally written in Urdu.
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Author Khalid Jawed and translator Baran Farooqi won the 2022 prize for the novel ‘The Paradise of Food’, originally written in Urdu.
Khalid Jawed's "The Paradise of Food", described as "a brutal and mesmerizing account of the contemporary body, home and nation told through the food and kitchen" and published by Juggernaut, was declared the winner of the ...
The winner was announced on Friday by JCB Chairman Lord Anthony Bamford virtually during the hybrid event where the trophy was handed over to the winning author by Sunil Khurana, Chief Operating Officer, JCB India, and Jury Chair AS Panneerselvan.
The book, originally published as 'Ne'mat Khana' in 2014, is the fourth translation to win the award and its first Urdu winner. It was translated by Baran Farooqi.
The literary work is the fourth translation and the first Urdu work to win the JCB Prize