Geetanjali Shree wins International Booker Prize 2022 for Hindi novel ‘Tomb of Sand’
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Tomb of Sand, a Hindi novel authored by Geetanjali Shree, the unassuming literary figure and translated into English by Daisy Rockwell based in the USA, won the International Booker Prize 2022. At a ceremony the writer said she was completely overwhelmed with the “bolt from the blue” as she accepted her prize, worth GBP 50,000 and shared with the book’s English translator, Daisy Rockwell. The International Booker Prize is an annual award which is given to “a single book, translated into English and published in the UK. “Tomb of Sand,” originally Ret Samadhi, is set in north India and follows an 80-year-old woman’s journey to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of Partition, and re-evaluating what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, a feminist. This year the judges considered 135 books and for the first time in 2022, all shortlisted authors and translators will each receive GBP 2,500, increased from GBP 1,000 in previous years bringing the total value of the prize to GBP 80,000.
