Tamil writer Perumal Murugan wins 2023 JCB Literary Award for Fire Bird
Awards
Tamil writer Perumal Murugan's novel 'Fire Bird', translated into English by Janani Kannan, won the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature. This book was published by Penguin Random House India. Presented by Lord Bamford, Chairman, JCB Group and personally by Deepak Shetty, CEO and Managing Director, JCB India Limited. In the JCB Sahitya Puraskar award, the writer is given Rs 25 lakh and the translator is given an additional Rs 10 lakh. Murugan has written 12 novels, six collections of short stories, six anthologies of poetry and several non-fiction books. Ten of her novels have been translated into English, including 'Seasons of the Palm', 'Current Show' and 'One Part Woman'. Other books included in the shortlist include Tejaswini Apte-Raham's 'The Secret of More' (Aleph Book Company), Manoranjan Byapari's 'The Nemesis' (Westland Books), Vikramjit Ram's 'Mansoor' (Pan Macmillan India) and 'I Named My Sister'.
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