: JCB Prize for Literature 2021: What you’ll read if you start on the 10 novels on the longlist #IndiaNEWS The JCB Prize for Literature 2021 has revealed the ten novels on the longlist. A panel of

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JCB Prize for Literature 2021: What you’ll read if you start on the 10 novels on the longlist #IndiaNEWS
The JCB Prize for Literature 2021 has revealed the ten novels on the longlist. A panel of five judges – Sara Rai (Chair), author and literary translator; Dr Annapurna Garimella, designer and art historian; Shahnaz Habib, author and translator; Prem Panicker, journalist and editor; and Amit Varma, writer and podcaster – have picked it, and will go on to choose the shortlist and then the winner.The shortlist will be announced on October 4, and the winner of the Rs 25 lakh prize – with an additional Rs 10 lakh for the translator if it is a translated title – will be revealed on November 13. The longlist was chosen from books published between 1 August 2020 and 31 July 2021.Here are the opening lines of the 10 shortlisted novels.A Death in Sonagachhi, Rijula Das, Pan Macmillan Lalee had learned the word “phantasy�. For reasons he couldn’t articulate, this made Tilu very jealous. Tilu Shau – obscure writer of erotic fiction – had been visiting Lalee for almost six months now – every second Wednesday when his book sales and assorted hustling yielded enough cash for him to afford Lalee’s door fees. He was a slight man, and nothing much to look at. It didn’t matter...Read more

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