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Indian novel wins booker prize

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The Booker Prize is a leading literary award in the English speaking world, which has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years.

 Author Geetanjali Shree is first Indian winner of International Booker Prize (pic source: social media)
Author Geetanjali Shree is first Indian winner of International Booker Prize (pic source: social media)

New Delhi: Delhi-based author Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize for “Tomb of Sand,” a vibrant novel with a boundary-crossing 80-year-old heroine.

“We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #2022InternationalBooker Prize is ‘Tomb of Sand’ by Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi to English by @shreedaisy and published by @tiltedaxispress,” The Booker Prizes said in a tweet.

The Booker Prize is a leading literary award in the English speaking world, which has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years.

It is awarded annually to the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.