Geetanjali won International Booker Prize for ‘Ret Samadhi’

Geetanjali won International Booker Prize 2022

Geetanjali won International Booker Prize- Relevance for UPSC Exam

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Recently, Geetanjali Shree won the International Booker Prize 2022. Geetanjali Shree’s novel is first translated Hindi work to win International Booker Prize.
Geetanjali Shree won International Booker Prize for her novel Tomb of Sand, a family saga set in the shadow of the partition of India, follows an 80-year-old woman after the death of her husband.

The winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize is ‘Tomb of Sand’ by Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi to English by Daisy Rockwell.
- Originally published in Hindi as Ret Samadhi, Geetanjali Shree’s book is translated into English by Daisy Rockwell
Tomb of Sand won the 2022 International Man Booker Prize, the first book written in an Indian language to have won the honour.
- It is also the first novel translated from Hindi to be recognised by the International Booker Prize award.

About: Ret Samadhi, a family saga set in the shadow of the partition of India, follows an 80-year-old woman after the death of her husband.
- Set in north India, Tomb of Sand is a story that examines boundaries — between nations, religions and genders — even as it follows the story of Ma ji.
- It traces the transformative journey of Ma, who becomes depressed after the death of her husband.
- She then decides to travel to Pakistan, confronting trauma that has remained unresolved since she was a teenager who survived the partition.
Writer: Ret Samadhi Novel was published in 2018. It is written by Geetanjali Shree in hindi.
- Ret Samadhi was translated into English by Daisy Rockwell and named as ‘Tomb of Sand’.

About: The International Booker Prize, earlier known as the Man Booker International Prize, was launched in 2004.
- International Booker Prize is given every two years.
Mandate: International Booker Prize was launched to reward a contemporary author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or available in English translation.
International Booker Prize: Since 2016, the £50,000 prize has been awarded annually to a book translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.
- The International Booker award is split equally between the writer and the translator.
Recent winners of International Booker Prize:
- International Booker Prize 2020: the award went to Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translator Michele Hutchison for The Discomfort of Evening.
- International Booker Prize 2021: French novelist David Diop and translator Anna Moschovakis won it for At Night All Blood is Black.