New Delhi : Fire Bird by Perumal Murugan, translated from the Tamil by Janani Kannan published by Penguin Random House India, has been announced as the winner of the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature, and awarded the 25-lakh Rupee Prize. The translator h
Fiction, while mirroring the society and times we live in, serves as a compass pointing to directions we might wish to go. The JCB Prize for Literature, which went to Perumal Murugan's 'Fire Bird', rewards this phenomenon of impactful .
The book, originally published as 'Ne'mat Khana' in 2014, is the fourth translation to win the award and its first Urdu winner. It was translated by Baran Farooqi.