Shahnaz Habib is an Indian essayist, fiction writer, travel writer, and translator based in the United States of America. She teaches writing at Bay Path University [1] and The New School, [2] and works as a consultant for the United Nations. [3] In 2018, she received the JCB Prize for Literature.
Habib grew up in Kerala, South India and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her poem Of Hypocrisy and Cheekbones won the First Prize in the Ninth National Poetry Competition in 2000 organized by The Poetry Society (India) in collaboration with British Council. [4] Her short story "Something Special About Sayyida" was selected for the anthology 21 under 40. [5] Her essays, travel writing, and criticism have appeared in The Guardian , [6] The New Yorker , [7] Afar , the anthology Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, [8] and many other publications. [9] [10] Her work has twice been named to the Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction list by the Best American Essays series. [11] [12]
Her English translation of the novel Jasmine Days, from the Malayalam original by the author Benyamin, won the 2018 JCB Prize for Literature, [13] [14] which each year recognizes a distinguished work of fiction by an Indian writer working in English or translated fiction by an Indian writer.
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Benny Daniel, better known by his penname Benyamin, is an Indian writer in Malayalam from Kerala. He is the author of about thirty books in various genres – from short stories to novels and memoirs. For his novel Goat Days (Aadujeevitham), he won the Abu Dhabi Sakthi Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and JCB Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. The novel Manthalirile 20 Communist Varshangal won the Vayalar Award in 2021.
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JCB Prize for Literature is an Indian literary award established in 2018. It is awarded annually with ₹2,500,000 (US$31,000) 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.
Jasmine Days is a 2014 Malayalam novel by Benyamin and translated into English by Shahnaz Habib. It tells the story of Sameera Parvin, a young Pakistani woman who works as a radio jockey in an unnamed Middle Eastern country which is on the verge of revolution. First published in 2014 as Mullappoo Niramulla Pakalukal, the novel won the inaugural JCB Prize. It was published by Juggernaut Books.
