JCB Prize
JCB Prize for Literature was an Indian literary award established in 2018. It was awarded annually with 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. It has been called "India's most valuable literature prize". Rana Dasgupta is the founding Literary Director of the JCB Prize. In 2020, Mita Kapur was appointed as the new Literary Director.
The JCB Literature Foundation was established to maintain the award. It is funded by the English construction manufacturing group JCB. Publishers are allowed, per imprint, to enter two novels originally written in English and two novels translated into English from another language. Celebrated writers like Geetanjali Shree, Perumal Murugan, Geet Chaturvedi, Benyamin, and Upamanyu Chatterjee have all been featured on the longlists and shortlists of this prestigious award.
Honourees
Winners indicated with a blue ribbon.2018
The inaugural JCB Prize longlist was announced in September 2018. The 5-member shortlist was announced October 2018. The winner was announced October 25, 2018.- Amitabha Bagchi, Half the Night is Gone
- Benyamin, Jasmine Days
- Perumal Murugan, Poonachi
- Anuradha Roy, All the Lives We Never Lived
- Shubhangi Swarup, ''Latitudes of Longing''
2019
The longlist was announced September 2019. The five-member shortlist was announced November 2019. The winner was announced November 5, 2019.- Roshan Ali, Ib's Endless Search for Satisfaction
- Manoranjan Byapari, There's Gunpowder in the Air
- Perumal Murugan, A Lonely Harvest and Trial by Silence
- Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, My Father's Garden
- Madhuri Vijay, ''The Far Field''
2020
The longlist was announced in September, 2020. The shortlist was announced on 25 September 2020. The winner was announced on November 7, 2020.- Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
- Samit Basu, Chosen Spirits
- Dharini Bhaskar, These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light
- S. Hareesh, Moustache
- Annie Zaidi, ''Prelude to a Riot''
2021
The longlist was announced in September, 2021. The shortlist was announced on October 4, 2021. The winner was announced on November 13, 2021.- VJ James, Anti-Clock
- Daribha Lyndem, Name Place Animal Thing
- Shabir Ahmad Mir, The Plague Upon Us
- M Mukundan, Delhi: A Soliloquy
- Lindsay Pereira, ''Gods and Ends''
2022
The longlist was announced on 3 September 2022. The shortlist was announced on 21 October 2022. For the first time in five years, all five books on the shortlist were translated books. The winner was announced on 19 November 2022.- Manoranjan Byapari, Imaan
- Chuden Kabimo, Song of the Soil
- Khalid Jawed, The Paradise of Food
- Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
- Sheela Tomy, ''Valli''
2023
- Tejaswini Apte-Rahm, The Secret of More
- Manoranjan Byapari, The Nemesis
- Perumal Murugan, Fire Bird
- Vikramjit Ram, Mansur
- Manoj Rupda, ''I Named My Sister Silence''
2024
- Sharankumar Limable, Sanatan
- Upamanyu Chatterjee, Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life
- Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari, Chronicle of an Hour and a Half
- Sakyajit Bhattacharya, The One Legged
- Sandhya Maria, ''Maria, Just Maria''