International Booker Prize 2022: Read Geetanjali Shree’s winning novel Tomb of Sand, plus previous top titles

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Drumroll please, Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand – translated by Daisy Rockwell – has been announced as the winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize. Not only is it the first Indian novel to win the acclaimed prize, it’s also the first book translated from Hindi to be recognised by the annual awards. The perfect opportunity to discover books from different cultures and new perspectives, this year’s wide-ranging shortlist included stories from Korea, Norway, Japan, Poland and Spain, with the winning novel hailing from northern India. Chair of the panel, Frank Wynne, lauded the winner as a “luminous novel of India and partition, but one whose spellbinding brio and fierce compassion weaves youth and age, male and female, family and nation into a kaleidoscopic whole.” Shree and Rockwell’s novel fought off fierce competition in a shortlist that was dominated by women, with five out of the six titles penned by female authors.