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This is the first time in the five-year-old award’s history that Hindi, Urdu and Nepali have featured on JCB shortlist
Bengali and Malayalam have featured on previous JCB shortlists, but this is the first time in the five-year-old award’s history that Hindi, Urdu and Nepali have made it.
The longlist was announced on September 3 and the winner, who will be awarded Rs 25 lakh, will be announced on November 19. The judges are journalist and editor AS Panneerselvan, (Chair); author Amitabha Bagchi; author and academician Rakhee Balaram; translator, historian and academician, J Devika; and author Janice Pariat. Each book on the shortlist, according to the judges, carries a “strong sense of the geographic locations they represent.”
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