A Booker winner, six translations and stories from Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Nagaland, Punjab, Kalimpong, and Kolkata feature in the longlist of 10 books for the Rs 25 lakh JCB Prize for Literature, the country's richest literary award for .
‘Rohzin’ was originally published in Urdu in 2016 and won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018. It has been translated into English by Sabika Abbas Naqvi.