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'Tomb of Sand' Becomes 1st Hindi-Original Book to Win Booker


Fri 27 May 2022 | 09:45 PM
Rana Atef

"Tomb of Sand" became the first original novel written in Hindi to win the international prize of Booker, Al Ain reported on Friday.

The book was written by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell.

Shree and Rockwell shared together the £50,000 prize to be the first Indian winner and the first book written in Hindi won the prize.

The chair of this year's prize jury Frank Wynne described the book as an “extraordinarily funny and fun”.

He added that the book is “Enormously engaging and charming and funny and light, despite the various subjects it’s dealing with … a perfectly decent beach read for absolutely everyone.”

Regarding the author, Shree wrote three novels and many shot story collection, but, "Tomb of Sand" is her first composition to be published in the UK.

While the trasnaltor is a painter, writer, and translator and she had different iconic translations from Hindi.

Wynne continued that Rockwell’s translation is “stunningly realised, the more so because so much of the original depends on wordplay, on the sounds and cadences of Hindi”.

The novel was published by small and independent publisher called Tilted Axis Press.