"Jasmine Days" (Juggernaut Books, 2018), translated by Shahnaz Habib won the inaugural JCB Prize for Literature, India's richest literary prize. It was originally written in Malayalam and translated by Shahnaz Habib, and is a "brilliant and intense novel", jury chairperson Vivek Shanbag (author "Ghachar Ghochar)" said while announcing the richest literary award in the country. The book tells the story of a young woman Sameera Parvin who moves to a middle eastern city and find herself in the middle of a revolution. It revolves around the Jasmine Revolution that sprang up in December 2010 and was quelled by January 2011.