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	'''Raj Kamal Jha''' (born 1966) is an Indian [[newspaper editor]] and novelist writing in English. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of ''[[The Indian Express]]''.		'''Raj Kamal Jha''' (born 1966) is an Indian [[newspaper editor]] and novelist writing in English. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of ''[[The Indian Express]]''. He has written five novels that have been translated into more than 12 languages. His journalism and fiction have won national and international awards, including the [[Commonwealth_Foundation_prizes#Commonwealth_Writers'_Prize\|Commonwealth Writers]] Prize; [[Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize]]; Tata Literature Live! Book of The Year; the [[International Press Institute]] India Award for Excellence in Journalism; and the [[Red Ink Awards\|Mumbai Press Club]] Journalist of the Year award. In September 2021, Jha was awarded Editor of The Year by the India Chapter of the [[International Advertising Association]] Annual Leadership Awards.<ref>[https://indianexpress.com/article/india/iaa-honours-for-express-chief-editor-raj-kamal-jha-amul-md-r-s-sodhi-7533123/]</ref>

	~~==Early Years, Education==~~

	Jha was born in [[Bhagalpur]], [[Bihar]], and grew up in [[Calcutta]], West Bengal, where he went to school at [[St. Joseph's College, Calcutta\|St. Joseph's College]].<ref>[[St. Joseph's College, Calcutta#Notable alumni]],"St Joseph's College, notable alumni"</ref> He attended the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur]], where he got his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. After graduating in June 1988, he went to the [[USC Annenberg School for Communication\|Graduate School of Journalism]] at the [[University of Southern California]] to pursue a Master's program in Print Journalism; he received his M.A. in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/winter00/alumninews/AP_Jha.html\|title=USC Alumni News}}</ref>		==Early life and education==

			Jha was born in [[Bhagalpur]], [[Bihar]], and grew up in [[Calcutta]], West Bengal, where he went to school at [[St. Joseph's College, Calcutta\|St. Joseph's College]].<ref>[[St. Joseph's College, Calcutta#Notable alumni]],"St Joseph's College, notable alumni"</ref> He attended the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur]], where he got his Bachelor of Technology with Honours in Mechanical Engineering. He was the editor of the campus magazine ''Alankar'' in his third (junior) and fourth (senior) years at IIT where he received the Institute's Order of Merit. After graduating in June 1988, he went to the [[USC Annenberg School for Communication\|Graduate School of Journalism]] at the [[University of Southern California]] to pursue a Master's program in Print Journalism; he received his M.A. in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/winter00/alumninews/AP_Jha.html\|title=USC Alumni News}}</ref>

	==Journalism, Career, Honours==		==Journalism, Career, Honours==

	Since 1990, Jha has been working full-time in newsrooms.<ref>[https://www.google.co.in/#q=%22a+fact+that+deeply+informs+and+influences+his+fiction%22/ "Raj Kamal Jha-IIT Kharagpur"], ''IIT Scholar''</ref> He was an Assistant Editor (News) at ''[[The Statesman (India)\|The Statesman]]'' in [[Kolkata]] between 1992 and 1994, a Senior Associate Editor at ''[[India Today]]'', New Delhi (1994–1996), and since 1996 has been with [[The Indian Express]].<ref>[http://indianexpress.com/profile/columnist/raj-kamal-jha/ "Raj Kamal Jha-Chief Editor"] ''The Indian Express''</ref> The newspaper and its journalists have won the Excellence in Journalism Award from the India chapter of the Vienna-based [[International Press Institute]] five times.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.freemedia.at/newssview/article/ipi-india-award-for-excellence-in-journalism-goes-to-the-tribune.html\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710165015/http://www.freemedia.at/newssview/article/ipi-india-award-for-excellence-in-journalism-goes-to-the-tribune.html\|url-status=dead\|title=Freemedia report on IPI Award\|archivedate=10 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/ritu-sarin-wins-international-press-institutes-award-for-excellence-in-journalism-5053680/\|title=Ritu Sarin wins International Press Institute's award for excellence in journalism\|date=7 February 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://indianexpress.com/article/india/express-reporter-wins-ipi-india-award-2020-for-coverage-of-election-commission-7192701/]</ref> These are for investigative work by the newspaper related to the Gujarat riots of 2002 and their aftermath; the Bihar flood scam in which relief was siphoned off by officers; the disappearance of tigers from India's national parks and questions regarding the role of the Election Commission of India.		Since 1990, Jha has been working full-time in newsrooms.<ref>[https://www.google.co.in/#q=%22a+fact+that+deeply+informs+and+influences+his+fiction%22/ "Raj Kamal Jha-IIT Kharagpur"], ''IIT Scholar''</ref> He was an Assistant Editor (News) at ''[[The Statesman (India)\|The Statesman]]'' in [[Kolkata]] between 1992 and 1994, a Senior Associate Editor at ''[[India Today]]'', New Delhi (1994–1996), and since 1996 has been with [[The Indian Express]], first as its Deputy Editor, then as Executive Editor, Managing Editor, Editor and Chief Editor since June 2014.<ref>[http://indianexpress.com/profile/columnist/raj-kamal-jha/ "Raj Kamal Jha-Chief Editor"] ''The Indian Express''</ref> The newspaper and its journalists have won the Excellence in Journalism Award from the India chapter of the Vienna-based [[International Press Institute]] five times.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.freemedia.at/newssview/article/ipi-india-award-for-excellence-in-journalism-goes-to-the-tribune.html\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710165015/http://www.freemedia.at/newssview/article/ipi-india-award-for-excellence-in-journalism-goes-to-the-tribune.html\|url-status=dead\|title=Freemedia report on IPI Award\|archivedate=10 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/ritu-sarin-wins-international-press-institutes-award-for-excellence-in-journalism-5053680/\|title=Ritu Sarin wins International Press Institute's award for excellence in journalism\|date=7 February 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://indianexpress.com/article/india/express-reporter-wins-ipi-india-award-2020-for-coverage-of-election-commission-7192701/]</ref> These are for investigative work by the newspaper related to the Gujarat riots of 2002 and their aftermath; the Bihar flood scam in which relief was siphoned off by officers; the disappearance of tigers from India's national parks and questions regarding the role of the Election Commission of India.

	As a member of the "[[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]]", the newspaper, in April 2016, investigated The Panama Papers and revealed details of Indian names and companies related to offshore accounts in tax havens. Following the revelations, the Government set up a panel to probe each account.<ref>[http://indianexpress.com/topic/panama-papers/page/2/ "The Panama Papers, The Indian Express"]</ref> For the Panama Papers, the ICIJ won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.<ref>[https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/panama-papers-wins-pulitzer-prize/ "Panama Papers wins Pulitzer Prize"]</ref> For his "exemplary stewardship" of The Indian Express that saw a "focus on investigative journalism," Jha was named Journalist of the Year by the Mumbai Press Club at Redink Awards, 2017.<ref>{{Cite web \| url=https://thewire.in/143486/the-wire-vinod-dua-redink-lifetime-achievement-award/ \|title = The Wire's Vinod Dua Wins RedInk Lifetime Achievement Award}}</ref>		As a member of the "[[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]]", the newspaper, in April 2016, investigated The Panama Papers and revealed details of Indian names and companies related to offshore accounts in tax havens. Following the revelations, the Government set up a panel to probe each account.<ref>[http://indianexpress.com/topic/panama-papers/page/2/ "The Panama Papers, The Indian Express"]</ref> For the Panama Papers, the ICIJ won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.<ref>[https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/panama-papers-wins-pulitzer-prize/ "Panama Papers wins Pulitzer Prize"]</ref> For his "exemplary stewardship" of The Indian Express that saw a "focus on investigative journalism," Jha was named Journalist of the Year by the Mumbai Press Club at Redink Awards, 2017.<ref>{{Cite web \| url=https://thewire.in/143486/the-wire-vinod-dua-redink-lifetime-achievement-award/ \|title = The Wire's Vinod Dua Wins RedInk Lifetime Achievement Award}}</ref>
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	In 2017, for his "outstanding contribution" to journalism and literature by telling stories about a changing India with "honesty, compassion and courage," Jha was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award by his alma mater [[Indian Institute of Technology]], Kharagpur, at its annual convocation.<ref>[http://alumni.iitkgp.ac.in/Alumniweb/Alumaward "IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award 2017"]</ref> Past recipients of this award from the institute include Google's [[Sundar Pichai]], Delhi Chief Minister [[Arvind Kejriwal]] and Magsaysay Award winner [[Harish Hande]].		In 2017, for his "outstanding contribution" to journalism and literature by telling stories about a changing India with "honesty, compassion and courage," Jha was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award by his alma mater [[Indian Institute of Technology]], Kharagpur, at its annual convocation.<ref>[http://alumni.iitkgp.ac.in/Alumniweb/Alumaward "IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award 2017"]</ref> Past recipients of this award from the institute include Google's [[Sundar Pichai]], Delhi Chief Minister [[Arvind Kejriwal]] and Magsaysay Award winner [[Harish Hande]].


	==Novels==		==Novels==

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'''Raj Kamal Jha''' (born 1966) is an Indian [[newspaper editor]] and novelist writing in English. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of ''[[The Indian Express]]''.

==Early Years, Education==

Jha was born in [[Bhagalpur]], [[Bihar]], and grew up in [[Calcutta]], West Bengal, where he went to school at [[St. Joseph's College, Calcutta|St. Joseph's College]].<ref>[[St. Joseph's College, Calcutta#Notable alumni]],"St Joseph's College, notable alumni"</ref> He attended the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur]], where he got his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. After graduating in June 1988, he went to the [[USC Annenberg School for Communication|Graduate School of Journalism]] at the [[University of Southern California]] to pursue a Master's program in Print Journalism; he received his M.A. in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/winter00/alumninews/AP_Jha.html|title=USC Alumni News}}</ref>

==Journalism, Career, Honours==

Since 1990, Jha has been working full-time in newsrooms.<ref>[https://www.google.co.in/#q=%22a+fact+that+deeply+informs+and+influences+his+fiction%22/ "Raj Kamal Jha-IIT Kharagpur"], ''IIT Scholar''</ref> He was an Assistant Editor (News) at ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'' in [[Kolkata]] between 1992 and 1994, a Senior Associate Editor at ''[[India Today]]'', New Delhi (1994–1996), and since 1996 has been with [[The Indian Express]].<ref>[http://indianexpress.com/profile/columnist/raj-kamal-jha/ "Raj Kamal Jha-Chief Editor"] ''The Indian Express''</ref> The newspaper and its journalists have won the Excellence in Journalism Award from the India chapter of the Vienna-based [[International Press Institute]] five times.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.freemedia.at/newssview/article/ipi-india-award-for-excellence-in-journalism-goes-to-the-tribune.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710165015/http://www.freemedia.at/newssview/article/ipi-india-award-for-excellence-in-journalism-goes-to-the-tribune.html|url-status=dead|title=Freemedia report on IPI Award|archivedate=10 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/ritu-sarin-wins-international-press-institutes-award-for-excellence-in-journalism-5053680/|title=Ritu Sarin wins International Press Institute's award for excellence in journalism|date=7 February 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://indianexpress.com/article/india/express-reporter-wins-ipi-india-award-2020-for-coverage-of-election-commission-7192701/]</ref> These are for investigative work by the newspaper related to the Gujarat riots of 2002 and their aftermath; the Bihar flood scam in which relief was siphoned off by officers; the disappearance of tigers from India's national parks and questions regarding the role of the Election Commission of India.

As a member of the "[[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]]", the newspaper, in April 2016, investigated The Panama Papers and revealed details of Indian names and companies related to offshore accounts in tax havens. Following the revelations, the Government set up a panel to probe each account.<ref>[http://indianexpress.com/topic/panama-papers/page/2/ "The Panama Papers, The Indian Express"]</ref> For the Panama Papers, the ICIJ won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.<ref>[https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/panama-papers-wins-pulitzer-prize/ "Panama Papers wins Pulitzer Prize"]</ref> For his "exemplary stewardship" of The Indian Express that saw a "focus on investigative journalism," Jha was named Journalist of the Year by the Mumbai Press Club at Redink Awards, 2017.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://thewire.in/143486/the-wire-vinod-dua-redink-lifetime-achievement-award/ |title = The Wire's Vinod Dua Wins RedInk Lifetime Achievement Award}}</ref>

In June 2021, the newspaper's investigation of FinCEN files, tracking global dirty money flows through global banks including HSBC, JP Morgan Chase and Standard Chartered, was part of the ICIJ-BuzzFeedNews project that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. <ref>[https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/fincen-files-investigation-named-pulitzer-prize-finalist/ "FinCEN Pulitzer finalist"]</ref>

Delivering the vote of thanks at the Ramnath Goenka Memorial Awards in 2016, Jha underlined that questioning those in power and holding them accountable, inviting their criticism, was the hallmark of good journalism, an obvious truth that often gets lost in the "selfie journalism" of "likes and retweets" and turning the camera on yourself.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/|title=Newslaundry | Sabki Dhulai|website=Newslaundry}}</ref> The next year, Jha said that the only counter to fear in the newsroom was to get up and switch the lights on rather than find a safe blanket to hide under.<ref name="auto" />

In 2017, for his "outstanding contribution" to journalism and literature by telling stories about a changing India with "honesty, compassion and courage," Jha was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award by his alma mater [[Indian Institute of Technology]], Kharagpur, at its annual convocation.<ref>[http://alumni.iitkgp.ac.in/Alumniweb/Alumaward "IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award 2017"]</ref> Past recipients of this award from the institute include Google's [[Sundar Pichai]], Delhi Chief Minister [[Arvind Kejriwal]] and Magsaysay Award winner [[Harish Hande]].

==Novels==

Jha's journalism informs and influences his fiction. His fifth and latest novel ''The City And The Sea'',<ref>{{Cite book|title=Buy The City and the Sea: A Novel Book Online at Low Prices in India | The City and the Sea: A Novel Reviews & Ratings - Amazon.in|id={{ASIN|0670090441|country=in}}}}</ref> published by Penguin Hamish Hamilton in 2019, "cleaves open India's tragedy of violence against women with a powerful story about our complicity in the culture that supports it." Nobel Laureate, economist and philosopher [[Amartya Sen]] has called it a "gripping narrative of human predicament and surviving hope, yielding an extraordinary combination of philosophy and allegory. A book you have to read."

Taking off from the [[2012 Delhi gang rape]], the novel "builds a narrative around a life disrupted by such an incident by delving into the past of one of the perpetrators (the juvenile), and the victim’s impossible future (as a mother)."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/books/exclusive-interview-raj-kamal-jha-the-city-and-the-sea-book|title=Exclusive | Interview: Raj Kamal Jha on 'The City and the Sea'|website=The Wire}}</ref> Writing in The Indian Express, eminent Malayalam writer [[N S Madhavan]] said: The layers upon layers of Jha's novel dress the "collective wound" of a nation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/what-cant-be-said-is-written-delhi-rape-case-2012-the-city-the-sea-raj-kamal-jha-5770311/|title=What Can't Be Said Is Written|date=8 June 2019}}</ref>

His fourth novel ''She Will Build Him A City''<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/She-Will-Build-Him-City/dp/1620409046/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520368514&sr=1-1&keywords=she+will+build+him+a+city&dpID=51oQRqWI2FL&preST=_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_QL70_&dpSrc=srch, She Will Build Him A City]</ref> was published by [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] in India, Australia, UK and US and by [[Actes Sud]] in French. [[Pankaj Mishra]] has called it the "best novel from and about India I have read in a long time." Writer [[Neel Mukherjee (writer)|Neel Mukherjee]] has said its "revelations about the New India are explosive."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/she-will-build-him-a-city-9781408855041/|title=She Will Build Him a City|website=Bloomsbury Publishing}}</ref> Describing its writing as "gorgeous," Kirkus Reviews says it uses "magic to illuminate violence, poverty and loss" and shines light on the "ugly highs and lows of modern India.".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/raj-kamal-jha/she-will-build-him-a-city/|title=SHE WILL BUILD HIM A CITY by Raj Kamal Jha | Kirkus Reviews|via=www.kirkusreviews.com}}</ref> Writer and critic Alex Clark writes in [[The Guardian]]: "Everywhere, scale is out of whack: tiny dwellings are dwarfed by teetering towers; choked roads are closed by massing protesters and water cannons; spiralling sums of money are set against almost unfathomable deprivation. The sense throughout is of inescapable oppression. No wonder the characters – both human and animal – occasionally break the bonds of earth and fly across the sky in search of less constrained lives.".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/07/she-will-build-him-a-city-raj-kamal-jha-review|title=She Will Build Him a City by Raj Kamal Jha review – alienation and upheaval|first=Alex|last=Clark|date=7 March 2015|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>

Jha is represented by London-based literary agent David Godwin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.davidgodwinassociates.com/davids-authors|title=David's Authors|website=DGA}}</ref>

==Themes In Fiction==
His writing, simple as it appears, calls for a lot of reader participation which evokes sharp, divided reaction.

"Not everyone’s kind of tales, they are dense and surreal, contain dark, brooding, even repugnant elements," said [[Open (Indian magazine)|OPEN (magazine)]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/books/novelist-of-the-newsroom|author=Rajni George|publisher=OPEN|date=January 16, 2015|title=Novelist of the newsroom}}</ref>

Reviewing "The City And The Sea," noted Malayalam writer [[K R Meera]] wrote: "It is the story of children within us, whose only defence against the unexplained horrors of the dark is darkness itself." Actor and activist [[Shabana Azmi]] said reading the book is "to dive into the darkness and spot a piercing ray of light." That as India stumbles its way into the 21st century, its "absolute priority has to be the safety of girls in public and private places and this will need courage and compassion." Taking off from a horrific rape in New Delhi, the novel sets out in search of a story that could have been, listening to voices that "can, perhaps, find utterance only in fiction."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://penguin.co.in/book/uncategorized/the-city-and-the-sea/|title=The City and the Sea|website=Penguin India}}</ref>

In his review, poet [[Sudeep Sen]] wrote that "The City and the Sea," is a book that "everyone should read in our dark times — both for the urgent story it contains and for its high literary value."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.asianage.com/books/100519/in-delectable-foursome-craft-marries-sensibility.html|title=In delectable foursome, craft marries sensibility|first=Sudeep|last=Sen|date=10 May 2019|website=The Asian Age}}</ref>

[[John Fowles]] described ''The Blue Bedspread'' as the "Coming of age of the Indian novel." Wrote Alfred Hickling in ''[[The Guardian]]'': "Readers are left to formulate their own theories and connections. But Jha's writing functions more through power of association than sequential narrative. His prose has the febrile, cold-sweat quality of the most vivid waking nightmares. He suspends his work in a realm of improbability, where it is possible to think the unthinkable...Perhaps the biggest taboo that Jha seeks to breach is the sacrosanct, hierarchical structure of the family.<ref>Alfred Hickling, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/aug/16/fiction.featuresreviews2 "If You Are Afraid of Heights-Review"], ''The Guardian'', Aug 16, 2003</ref> " According to writer and musician [[Amit Chaudhuri]], Jha's writing is more in the tradition of cinema than literature. Referring to the works of [[Andrei Tarkovsky|Tarkovsky]], [[Luis Buñuel]] and [[Pedro Almodóvar]], Chaudhuri says just like their films are "destined to be foreign even to those who speak the language they are made in," Jha's novel speaks a "foreign language."<ref>Amit Chaudhuri, [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n24/amit-chaudhuri/champion-of-hide-and-seek "London Review of Books"]</ref> In March 2021, Jha wrote an essay and a short story for Chaudhuri's literary activism website which gives a peek into his art.<ref> Amit Chaudhuri [https://www.literaryactivism.com/the-mission-statement-is-in-italics/ "Literary Activism"]</ref>

''[[Fireproof (novel)|Fireproof]]'' is set against the backdrop of the [[2002 Gujarat violence]], the first attack on Muslims (In retaliation of attacks on Karsevaks in Godhra) after 9/11. The novel is a chilling tale of a father and his deformed son on a journey across a city where the ghosts of those killed have decided to seek justice.<ref>Antara Dev Sen, [http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/the-father-the-son-and-the-night/18732/ "The Father, the Son and the Night"], ''The Indian Express'', Dec 16, 2006</ref> Commenting on ''Fireproof'', ''[[India Today]]'' said: "Here is a chronicle for the 21st century, then, a [[bildungsroman]] that tracks the education of the crime-infested soul, completed when the soul cries 'I am guilty.''

Reviewing Jha's fourth novel, "She Will Build Him A City," [[The Saturday Paper]], the Australian cultural weekly, called it "conceptually daring and important beyond entertainment." The importance of the novel, it wrote, is the fact that "if the Indian economy is a tiger on the verge of roaring, the world should hear the stories of the people who have fed it with their blood."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2015/03/31/she-will-build-him-city/14262516001589|title=She Will Build Him a City|first=Reviewer|last=LS|date=14 March 2015|website=The Saturday Paper}}</ref>

==Honours in Fiction==

* Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Eurasia), ''The Blue Bedspread,'' 2000 <ref>[https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Commonwealth+Writers%27+Prize]</ref>
* Finalist, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, ''The Blue Bedspread,'' 2000
* Finalist, Guardian First Book Award, ''The Blue Bedspread,'' 1999 <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/07/guardian-first-book-award-all-the-winners]</ref>
* The New York Times Notable Book of The Year, ''The Blue Bedspread,'' 2000 <ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/books/notable-books.html]</ref>
* Finalist, Hutch-Crossword Book Award, ''If You Are Afraid of Heights,'' 2003
* Winner, Best Book (Fiction) published in 2006, ''Fireproof,'' CNN-IBN List
* Finalist, DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, ''She Will Build Him A City,'' 2016 <ref>[http://dscprize.com/2015/11/27/dsc-prize-2016-announces-a-shortlist-of-6-novels/|title=DSC Prize 2016 announces a shortlist of 6 novels | The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature|website=dscprize.com]</ref>
* Longlist, [[JCB Prize for Literature]], ''The City and The Sea,'' 2019 <ref>[https://www.thejcbprize.org/longlist2019/index/4ef7e1f9-26d5-47c2-8362-7670cc2f71a1]</ref>
* Finalist, DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, ''The City and the Sea'', 2019 <ref>[http://dscprize.com/2019/09/26/longlist-announced-for-the-dsc-prize-for-south-asian-literature-2019/]</ref>
* Winner, Tata Literature Live Book of The Year (Fiction), ''The City and the Sea,'' 2019 <ref>[https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/writer-shanta-gokhale-honoured-with-lifetime-achievement-award-at-tata-literature-live/166488]</ref>
* Finalist, Mathrubhumi Book of the Year, ''The City and the Sea,'' 2020 <ref>[https://english.mathrubhumi.com/mbifl2020/news/mathrubhumi-book-of-the-year-award-2020-shortlist-announced-1.4465934]</ref>
* Winner, [[Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize]], ''The City and the Sea,'' 2020<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-07|title=Raj Kamal Jha wins Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020 for The City and the Sea|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/raj-kamal-jha-wins-the-rabindranath-tagore-literary-prize-2020-for-the-city-and-the-sea-7095066/|access-date=2020-12-09|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref>

==Other media==
Japanese video artist and photographer [[Noritoshi Hirakawa]] created four video art installations taking scenes from Jha's three novels for an exhibition at the [[National Gallery of Modern Art]] in New Delhi in 2007 as part of a special exhibition of contemporary Japanese art called Vanishing Points.<ref>[http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/the-points-of-contact-107102701020_1.html "The Points of Contact"] ''Business Standard'', Oct 27, 2007</ref>

==Teaching==
Jha was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] where he taught a course on reporting on India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/indiareport/author/bs9749a/|title=bs9749a | The India Reporting Project}}</ref> He was also a fellow at the [[Yaddo]] Residency in [[Saratoga Springs, New York]], in 2005. He was selected as Artist-in-Residence (Literature) in Berlin by the [[German Academic Exchange Service]] for 2012–2013 under the Berliner Künstlerprogramm,<ref>[http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/gast.php?id=1204 "Guests-Jha, Raj Kamal"] Berliner Künstlerprogramm''</ref> offering grants to artists in the fields of visual arts, literature, music and film."

==Books, Anthologies==
*2019: ''The City And The Sea'', novel, Penguin Hamish Hamilton
*2015: ''She Will Build Him A City'', novel, Bloomsbury
*2013: Short Fiction in ''[[Es war einmal]]'', audio book, Hörbuch Hamburg
*2012: Prose-verse in ''[[Kindness]]'', Australia-India Cultural Exchange, 20 Year Anniversary Project, Australia-India Council
*2006-7: ''Fireproof (novel)|Fireproof'', novel, Picador
*2006: ''Zwischen den Welten'', Short fiction in a German anthology
*2003: ''If You Are Afraid of Heights'', novel, Picador, Harcourt
*2001: ''The Blue Bedspread'', novel, Picador, Random House

==See also==
* [[Indian writing in English]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Isfdb name|107661}}
* {{OL author|104097A}}
* {{Perlentaucher|raj-kamal-jha}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050316013048/http://www.saja.org/rajkamaljha.html Raj Kamal Jha] at the [[South Asian Journalists Association]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070430143326/http://www.himalmag.com/2007/february/review1.htm Review in Himal, Kathmandu]

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