Panneerselvan, author Amitabha Bagchi, author-academician Rakhee Balaram, translator-historian J. The winner was selected by a panel of five judges, consisting of journalist and editor A.S. Jawed added it was because of Farooqi’s skill of transporting his world into another world that the novel has been recognised for the award.
I wrote this novel in 2014 and it is today that it has been recognised.”
But it is today that I have felt the true happiness. Receiving the award, Jawed said, “We look for happiness every single day and in different corners of our world. Jawed received the prize money of Rs 25 lakh along with a trophy – a sculpture by Delhi artist duo Thukral and Tagra, titled ‘Mirror Melting.’īaran Farooqi also received an additional Rs 10 lakh for the award. The Paradise of Food, Khalid Jawed, Juggernaut, 2022.
“His narrative, with its free flowing, centrifugally charged, multi-layered prose and discourse, the utter unfamiliar nature of it and the concerns interspersed within, with sparks flying about intermittently, may intrigue you, disturb you and in the end engulf you either with a deep sense of admiration or of discomfort or disquiet, foreboding or introspection, culminating either in fulsome appreciation or rejection depending upon your literary taste, inclinations or insights. Reviewing the book for The Wire, Ekram Khawar wrote:
Its narrator struggles to find a place for himself, at odds in his home and the world outside. The Paradise of Food tells the story of a middle-class joint Muslim family over a span of 50 years. The book, originally published as Ne’mat Khana in 2014, is the fourth translation to win the award and the first work in Urdu. New Delhi: Author Khalid Jawed’s The Paradise of Food, translated by Baran Farooqi from Urdu, has won the fifth JCB Prize for Literature.
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