Geetanjali Shree
Award winning Indian writer
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Geetanjali Shree गीतांजलि श्री is a Hindi novelist and short-story writer based in New Delhi, India. She is the author of several short stories and five novels. Her 2000 novel Mai was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2001. and was translated into English by Nita Kumar which was re-published by Niyogi Books in 2017. In 2022, her novel Ret Samadhi (2018), translated into English as Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize. She has also written a critical work on Premchand.
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Sustained efforts needed to bring Hindi literature centre-stage: Booker Prize winner Geetanjali ShreeIndiaTimes - Published | |
Geetanjali Shree wins International Booker Prize for first Hindi novel 'Tomb of Sand'‘Tomb of Sand', originally ‘Ret Samadhi', is set in northern India and follows an 80-year-old woman in a tale the Booker judges dubbed a "joyous cacophony" and an "irresistible novel".IndiaTimes - Published | |
Who is Geetanjali Shree, whose novel Tomb of Sand won International Booker Prize?The Tomb of Sand, a story set in the Partition era, narrates the ordeal of a elderly woman after the death of her husband.DNA - Published | |
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