Raj Kamal Jha was awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Award 2020 for his novel 'The City and the Sea'. Jha's book, which is based on the December 2012 Nirbhaya rape and murder case, was chosen from ten shortlisted books including Amitav Ghosh 'Gun' Island. Nirmala Govindarajan's 'Taboo' and Ranjit Hoskote's 'Jonahwhale'.