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28/05/22 16:30 PM IST

Geetanjali Shree’s novel

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  • Tomb of Sand won the 2022 International Man Booker Prize, the first book written in an Indian language to have won the honour. It is also the first novel translated from Hindi to be recognised by the award.
Tomb of Sand 
  • ‘Tomb of Sand’ which was originally published in Hindi as Ret Samadhi is translated into English by Daisy Rockwell.
  • ‘Tomb of Sand’ by Geetanjali Shree, the winner of the International Booker Prize 2022, was among the 13 long-listed novels, which were translated into English from 11 languages and originated from 12 countries across four continents.'
  • Tomb of Sand’ or in Hindi known as ‘Ret Samadhi’ narrates the story of an 80-years old woman who experiences a deep depression after the death of her husband.
  • Eventually, she overcomes the depression and decides to visit Pakistan to finally confront the past that she had left behind during partition.
About the prize 
  • The International Booker Prize, earlier known as the Man Booker International Prize, was launched in 2004 to reward, every two years, a contemporary author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or available in English translation.
  • Since 2016, the £50,000 prize has been awarded annually to a book translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. The award is split equally between the writer and the translator.
    In 2021, French novelist David Diop and translator Anna Moschovakis won it for At Night All Blood is Black.
  • In 2020, the award went to Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translator Michele Hutchison for The Discomfort of Evening.
Source- Indian Express 

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