Watch: Moment when Geetanjali Shree won Booker Prize for her Hindi novel
2 years, 7 months ago

Watch: Moment when Geetanjali Shree won Booker Prize for her Hindi novel

Hindustan Times  

Author Geetanjali Shree created history on Thursday night by becoming the first to win the International Booker Prize for a novel originally written in Hindi. The official Twitter handle of the Booker Prizes shared a video of the moment when Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell found out they had won the coveted prize for ‘Tomb of Stone’. “Ultimately, we were captivated by the power, the poignancy and the playfulness of ‘Tomb of Sand’, Geetanjali Shree’s polyphonic novel of identity and belonging, in Daisy Rockwell's exuberant, coruscating translation,” said Frank Wynne, himself a translator and chair of the judging panel. Shree's novel was chosen from a shortlist of six books, the others being: ‘Cursed Bunny’ by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur from Korean; ‘A New Name: Septology VI-VII’ by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls from Norwegian; ‘Heaven’ by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Samuel Bett and David Boyd from Japanese; ‘Elena Knows’ by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle from Spanish; and ‘The Books of Jacob’ by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft from Polish.

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Firstpost  

The felicitation event was to be hosted by cultural organisations Rangleela and Agra Theatre Club Agra: An event to honour International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree here on Saturday was called off by the organisers after a complaint was filed against the author alleging there are some objectionable comments about Indian deities in her novel. “The event was called off …

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Hindustan Times  

[email protected] Geetanjali Shree is a celebrated Hindi writer who has five novels and five short stories to her credit. AGRA The event to felicitate International Booker Prize-2022 winner Geentanjali Shree in Agra on Saturday was called off by organizers due to controversy over the content of her award winning book ‘Ret Samadhi’ and a complaint filed in this regard with …

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Ret Samadhi, Geetanjali Shree’s remarkable work of fiction, has won the International Booker Prize this year. Only when Arvind Adiga won the Booker Prize in 2008 for his novel The White Tiger — and received the prize in full British attire of a tuxedo and bowtie — did Indians recognise him as a literary hero. Geetanjali’s first novel, Mai, was …

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At the recent Booker Prize ceremony in London, Daisy Rockwell won many hearts by adding a smattering of Hindi to her winner’s speech. As the U.S.-based translator, writer and painter smiled her way through the honours — giving credit to her 90-year-old father, besides author Geetanjali Shree, her publishers and “match-maker” translator friend Arunava Sinha — she acknowledged her in-laws, …

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Geetanjali Shree, who has been a prominent figure in the world of Hindi literature with her five novels, two short collections, and a biography of Munshi Premchand, made history when her novel Ret Samadhi, translated into English as Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell, won the 2022 International Booker Prize for Translated Fiction on May 26. Author Geetanjali Shree, winner …

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The Quint  

Acclaim matters to books and their authors. Awards and prizes matter – of course, the right kind of acclaim and the right kind of award, national acclaim as well as international. Like the International Booker Prize, which was won this year by Geetanjali Shree's 'Tomb of Sand', the English translation of her 'Ret Samadhi'. The right kind of acclaim or …

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The Hindu  

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1st International Booker for Hindi novel by Indian
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1st International Booker for Hindi novel by Indian

Hindustan Times  

“I feel a sense of wonderment about my own work, that so many people, sitting so far away, have read the book and liked it,” Geetanjali Shree told HT when her Hindi novel, Ret Samadhi, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in March. What a huge recognition, I’m honoured and humbled.” The book, Shree’s fifth and translated into English …

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If it isn’t already, Tomb of Sand, the first Indian novel to win the International Booker Prize, will be flying off the shelves. Originally a Hindi book called Ret Samadhi by Geetanjali Shree and translated into Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, the book is currently the most talked about title in India and perhaps even among all English book readers world-over. …

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Geetanjali Shree first Indian to win International Booker Prize
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Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’ first Hindi novel to win International Booker Prize
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Indian author Geetanjali Shree has won the prestigious International Booker Prize for her Hindi novel Ret Samadhi, translated into English as Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell. “This rather chunky text,” as Ms. Rockwell said at the award ceremony, “is the first time the translation of a Hindi language book had been nominated for the award”. The final selection for …

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The funny, engaging and deeply original novel tells the tale of an 80-year-old woman somewhere in northern India who has slipped into deep depression after the death of her husband. Geetanjali Shree’s 2019 Hindi novel Ret Samadhi is such a benchmark-shattering, genre-defying work that has reached the shortlist for this year’s International Booker Prize in the form of its English …

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