: JCB Prize: Deepa Anappara, Samit Basu, Dharini Bhaskar, S Hareesh, Annie Zaidi make the shortlist #IndiaNEWS The five-book-strong shortlist for the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature 2020 (with an

JCB Prize: Deepa Anappara, Samit Basu, Dharini Bhaskar, S Hareesh, Annie Zaidi make the shortlist #IndiaNEWS
The five-book-strong shortlist for the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature 2020 (with an additional prize money of Rs 10 lakh for the translator in case the winning book is a translation) has been announced. Reflecting the expansion of the literary imagination increasingly seen in fiction from India, the shortlist spans works featuring magical realism, speculation about the near future, an unusual narratorial voice, a complex saga about generations of women in a family, and a multi-perspective telling of the lead-up to a grimly real and violent incident. The shortlist, which includes three debuts:Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, Deepa Anappara, Penguin Random House IndiaChosen Spirits, Samit Basu, Simon & Schuster IndiaThese, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light, Dharini Bhaskar, Hachette IndiaMoustache, S Hareesh, translated from the Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil, HarperCollins India Prelude to a Riot, Annie Zaidi, Aleph Book Company, 2019In choosing these books – and the 10-strong longlist before it – the jury, comprising Tejaswini Niranjan (chair), Aruni Kashyap, Ramu Ramanathan, and Deepika Sorabjee, has clearly acknowledged the replacement of conventional storytelling from the centre by edgy, experimental, genre-defying writing from the perimeters of mainstream fiction. Here are excerpts from four reviews (one of them yet to be published) of, and an excerpt from, the five shortlisted novels.Djinn Patrol on...Read more

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