First Indian language book to win the International Booker Prize: Author Geetanjali Shree’s translated Hindi novel, Tomb of Sand
The 2018 novel titled ‘Ret Samadhi’ was translated by Daisy Rockwell and published as ‘Tomb of Sand’ in 2021.
The Booker Prize Award
One of the best-known literary awards for fiction writing in English, including both novels and collections of short stories.
First awarded in 1969
Criteria: Must be written in English and published in the UK and Ireland
International Booker Prize: Awarded annually for a single book, written in another language and translated into English. The £50,000 prize money is divided equally between the author and translator each year.
Many Indian-origin writers have won the Booker in the past, such as
Arundhati Roy (‘The God of Small Things’)
Salman Rushdie (‘Midnight’s Children’)
Kiran Desai (‘The Inheritance of Loss’)
Aravind Adiga (‘The White Tiger’)
Shree is the first Indian to win an international prize
