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Delhi-based writer Geetanjali Shree wins International Booker Prize for first Hindi novel 'Tomb of Sand'

LONDON: Geetanjali Shree has become the first Indian author to win the prestigious International Booker Prize for her "utterly original" Hindi novel 'Tomb of Sand', a family saga set in northern India about an 80-year-old woman who travels to Pakistan to confront the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of…

The Times of India · May 27, 2022

Geetanjali Shree wins International Booker Prize for first Hindi novel 'Tomb of Sand'

Geetanjali Shree wins International Booker Prize for first Hindi novel 'Tomb of Sand'

“I never dreamt of the Booker, I never thought I could. What a huge recognition, I’m amazed, delighted, honoured and humbled,” said Geetanjali Shree, in her acceptance speech

The Hindu · May 26, 2022

Indian novel 'Tomb of Sand' wins International Booker Prize

Indian novel 'Tomb of Sand' wins International Booker Prize

Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell have won the International Booker Prize for “Tomb of Sand.”

The Independent UK · May 26, 2022

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First novel translated from Hindi wins International Booker prize

Author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell share the £50,000 prize for ‘extraordinarily funny and fun’ Tomb of Sand

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2022

International Booker prize shortlist delivers ‘awe and exhilaration’

The final contenders for the £50,000 prize for translated fiction – five out of six by women – could see Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk win a second time

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2022

"Booker nod is a big win. It will create awareness about Hindi translations," say Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell

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…

The Times of India · Mar 13, 2022

International Booker prize announces longlist ‘tracing ring around the world’

The 13 books in contention for the £50,000 prize include Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, the first book translated from Hindi to be nominated

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2022

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