It took more than ten drafts and countless email exchanges between novelist Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell to produce a work of fiction like 'Tomb of Sand' (originally published in Hindi as 'Ret Samadhi') which went on to win the prestigious International Booker Prize 2022. A partition novel at its heart, with deep layers of women’s eccentricities and meditations alike, 'Tomb of Sand' has marked a literary milestone for India with this win.
Rockwell, who has previously translated works of literary giants like Upendranath Ashk and Krishna Sobti, was in the capital recently to receive the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award for 2023, her first visit to the country since the Booker win.
