“Tomb of Sand” wins International Booker Prize

• 27 May 2022

Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize 2022 for “Tomb of Sand”.

• Originally written in Hindi – (‘Ret Samadhi’), it’s the first book in any Indian language to win the International Booker Prize.
• Shree was the first Indian to get nominated to the International Booker Prize.
• Shree is also the first Hindi novelist to achieve this feat.
• The 50,000-pound ($63,000) prize money will be split between New Delhi-based Shree and Rockwell.
• The book tells the story of an octogenarian widow who dares to cast off convention and confront the ghosts of her experiences during the subcontinent’s tumultuous 1947 partition into India and Pakistan.
• The International Booker Prize is awarded every year to a translated work of fiction published in the U.K. or Ireland. It is run alongside the Booker Prize for English-language fiction.