This week, novelist and short story writer Geetanjali Shree’s novel 'Ret Samadhi', translated into English as 'Tomb of Sand' by Daisy Rockwell, became the first Hindi work to be longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Rockwell, a painter, writer and translator living in the US, and Delhi-based Shree spoke to TOI about what the nomination means for Hindi writers and translations
Geetanjali, in your novel, the octogenarian protagonist gets a new lease on life after her husband’s death and travels to Pakistan. How was the character conceptualised?
