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Meet the author of this year's winner of The JCB Prize for Literature, Madhuri Vijay. The debut author won India's richest literary prize for her exceptional novel, The Far Field. The Far Field is a truly remarkable tale of longing and loss set against a socio-political backdrop of a valley in crisis. Through it's young protagonist, Shalini, the novel establishes the distance between communities, cultures and people. Kashmir, though very much a part of the country, has always been a far field to the rest of India and this book brings our attention to that in the most heartbreaking way possible.