A Soliloquy (Westland) by M Mukundan, translated from Malayalam by Fathima EV and Nandakumar K, was announced the winner of the Rs 25-lakh-JCB Prize for Literature. The winner was announced by Lord Bamford, Chairman, JCB in a hybrid awards ceremony. 

Mukundan’s novel, which is a narrative of epic proportions that casts an unflinching gaze at the country’s capital as it changes into the megalopolis that it is today, was the unanimous choice of the jury.