Report by Yashasvi Anika Tandon
Author Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi book Ret Samadhi has won the International Booker Prize for Translated Fiction which means that she has written the book and it has been translated by somebody else.
Daisy Rockwell, an author, painter, and translator translated this novel into English as ‘Tomb of Sand’. Tilted Axis Press of the UK published this novel in English in August, 2021. A cash prize of 50,000 pounds will be divided amongst the author and translator.
Till now no fictional novel in a regional language from South Asia or India has been shortlisted for The International Booker prize.
About the International Booker Prize
It is an award given to a person who has excelled in the field of literature for translated fiction. Introduced in 2005, it was earlier known as the Man Booker International Prize. The first recipient of the prize was Ismail Khadare.
The shortlisted books for the 2022 International Booker Prize are:
| Book Name | Author | Translator | Original Language | Publication |
| Heaven | Meiko Kawakami | Sam Bett and David Boyd | Japanese | Pac Macmillan |
| Elena Knows | Claudia Pineiro | Frances Riddle | Spanish | Charco Press |
| A New Name Septology 6-7 | Jon Fosse | Damion Searls | Norwegian | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Tomb of Sand | Geetanjali Shree | Daisy Rockwell | Hindi | Tilted Axis Press |
| The Books of Jacob | Olga Tokarczuk | Jennifer Croft | Polish | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Cursed Bunny | Bora Chung | Anton Hur | Korean | Honford Star |
A few other books by Geetanjali Shree are ‘Bel Patra’, ‘That Empty Space’, ‘The Roof Beneath Their Feet’, ‘Anugoonj’, and ‘Mai’. ‘Bel Patra’ is her first novel.
Image Credit: Official Twitter of the Booker Prize