![]() ![]() ![]() Do look at their website to see how Juggernaut market their books, it’s quite unlike the publisher websites we’re used to, offering books under various headings such as Readers Club New Releases, Quick 15-minute reads Secrets of Parenting, Grow Your Vocabulary and the Fit India Movement. ![]() You use it to read this book on your phone. On the back of my hardback edition, next to the barcode on the dustjacket, there’s a QR code. Juggernaut Books is a two-year-old mobile venture. Can we imagine any of our Australian mega construction companies funding a literary prize? No, we cannot, more’s the pity.)Īpart from the story itself, the other thing that’s interesting about Jasmine Days is its publisher. It’s funded by a manufacturer of earthmoving and construction equipment. The book won India’s new JCB Prize for Literature, awarded annually with 25 lakh INR (about $54,000 AUD) to a distinguished work of fiction by an Indian writer working in English or translated fiction by an Indian writer. I don’t know who to thank for my discovery of Jasmine Days written by Benyamin, (Benny Daniel) and translated from the Malayalam by Shahnaz Habib. ![]()
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