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Voices of Sanity: A Review of Our City That Year by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Voices of Sanity: A Review of Our City That Year by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 11, 2024 22:45 IST - 4 MINS READ Geetanjali Shree acquired well-deserved international recognition when she was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2022 for her novel Tomb of Sand, translated by Daisy Rockwell from the Hindi original, Ret Samadhi. In Our City That Year, a recently published translation by Rockwell of Shree’s second novel, Hamara Shahar …

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Book review of Geetanjali Shree’s two early novels The Roof Beneath Their Feet and The Empty Space
1 year, 5 months ago

Book review of Geetanjali Shree’s two early novels The Roof Beneath Their Feet and The Empty Space

The Hindu  

The award of the International Booker Prize to Geetanjali Shree last year for her fifth novel, Tomb of Sand, conferred on her instant fame and a unique status among writers in the Indian languages. That Geetanjali’s Hindi backlist has been also her English backlist attests to the widely acknowledged significance of these books; they have walked into English not on …

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Partition was never complete, border was created politically, says International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree
2 years, 2 months ago

Partition was never complete, border was created politically, says International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree

Firstpost  

Geetanjali Shree is the author of Tomb of Sand, the book which won the 2022 International Booker Prize. The book originally titled ‘Ret Samadhi’ in Hindi was translated into English by Daisy Rockwell What goes into writing a book, especially a novel such as Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree? Readers got a chance to get these questions answered by …

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India at 75 | A look at important Partition literature: Booker-winning Tomb of Sand, Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, and others
2 years, 4 months ago

India at 75 | A look at important Partition literature: Booker-winning Tomb of Sand, Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, and others

The Hindu  

Last month, an event in Agra featuring novelist Geetanjali Shree had to be cancelled after a Hathras resident filed a police complaint against her. Memory in the context of trauma French writer Marcel Proust is generally credited for the concept of ‘involuntary memory’ through his novel Remembrance of Things Past. Published in 1956, less than a decade after Partition, Khushwant …

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Booker winner Geetanjali Shree’s event cancelled in Agra after complaint against her
2 years, 5 months ago

Booker winner Geetanjali Shree’s event cancelled in Agra after complaint against her

The Hindu  

An event to honour International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree in Agra 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 ‘Tomb of Sand’. “The event was called off due to a controversy over a complaint against the International Booker prize …

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Tomb of Sand review: Not driven by plot, but by language
2 years, 6 months ago

Tomb of Sand review: Not driven by plot, but by language

Live Mint  

Much has been written about Ret Samadhi since Tomb of Sand won the International Booker Prize. Neither the relative silence pre-International Booker nor the relentless chatter now takes away from the fact that Ret Samadhi is a remarkably original work, its language hovering between prose and poetry, its plot between real, surreal and absurd, its characters leaping in and out …

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A guide to Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell
2 years, 7 months ago

A guide to Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell

Live Mint  

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
2 years, 7 months ago

Geetanjali Shree first Indian to win International Booker Prize

Al Jazeera  

Shree’s novel Tomb of Sand, originally written in Hindi, is set during the subcontinent’s partition into India and Pakistan in 1947. Author Geetanjali Shree has become the first Indian to win the International Booker Prize for her novel, Tomb of Sand, originally written in Hindi. “I never dreamt of the Booker, I never thought I could,” Shree said in an …

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Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’ first Hindi novel to win International Booker Prize
2 years, 7 months ago

Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’ first Hindi novel to win International Booker Prize

The Hindu  

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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Translator Daisy Rockwell on ‘Tomb of Sand’, first Hindi book to reach International Booker shortlist
2 years, 7 months ago

Translator Daisy Rockwell on ‘Tomb of Sand’, first Hindi book to reach International Booker shortlist

Firstpost  

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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Mini Kapoor reviews Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’
2 years, 7 months ago

Mini Kapoor reviews Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’

The Hindu  

“A tale tells itself. By the novel’s end, the various strands of this tale come together, with Ma’s caper across the border into Pakistan looping back to the opening pages. Thereafter, the last pages of Shree’s novel are unnumbered, like the spare candle on a birthday cake perhaps, for no story ever stops growing. All of human history, literature, art, …

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The importance of Faiz, a conversation with Geetanjali Shree and more | The Hindu on Books
2 years, 8 months ago

The importance of Faiz, a conversation with Geetanjali Shree and more | The Hindu on Books

The Hindu  

This article forms a part of The Hindu on Books newsletter which brings you book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. Later, after Partition, he edited the leftist English daily, Pakistan Times, and as his grandson Ali Madeeh Hashmi writes in his biography Love and Revolution, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, “his poetry, his life’s work and his personality had …

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