Six debutant authors in JCB Prize for Literature 2021

The longlist of the 2021 JCB Prize for Literature, which was announced on 6 September, is dominated by debut authors with six debuts. Three works on the list are translations (from Malayalam). The longlist was chosen from a wide range of submissions by writers from sixteen states writing in multiple languages published between 1 August 2020 and 31 July 2021.