In 2018, his novel Jasmine Days won the JCB Prize for Literature and the Crossword Book. Besides, it foregrounds the interrogation of the systems of governance, patriarchal family set-up, justice and societal attitude to religion and morality. Benyamin is a novelist and short-story writer in Malayalam. My paper studies the impact due to the failed revolution on the diasporic life of various nationalities from the Indian subcontinent and the consequent problematization of various constructs, most of all, identity in its various manifestations: diasporic, national, religious, etc. The Jury Award Translation goes to Jasmine Days, originally written by Benyamin, translated to English from Malayalam by Shahnaz Habib, published by. In New Delhi, Malayalam author Benyamin has bagged the first JCB Prize for literature for his book Jasmine Days, which explores the lives of South Asians. It tells the story of Sameera Parvin, a young Pakistani woman who works as a radio jockey in an unnamed Middle Eastern country which is on the verge of revolution.
The love angle, made conspicuous by its absence, makes the narrative poignant. Jasmine Days by Benyamin is a translated work of fiction. Jasmine Days is a 2014 Malayalam novel by Benyamin and translated into English by Shahnaz Habib. The novel is remarkable for the presentation of a woman’s point of view by a male author.
The crisis comes in the form of the political upheaval known in recent history as the Arab Spring, and the whole world is upturned. The JCB award winning novel Jasmine Days written in Malayalam by Benyamin (translated into English by Shahnaz Habib) is the writer’s second novel which takes up the life of a diasporic Pakistani family in an unnamed West Asian country – a locale that hardly finds favour with established writers.
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