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    • Daisy Rockwell: ‘It’s very difficult to break through a zeitgeist steeped in misinformation, bigotry, ignorance’

      International Booker Prize-winning American translator Daisy Rockwell on the absence of panel discussions on the genocide in Palestine at Indian literature festivals, misinformation, and how translations are poorly marketed.

    • 'If you think Partition happened in 1947 and it’s over, you are mistaken': 'Tomb of Sand' author Geetanjali Shree

      The International Booker-prize winning author on working with translator Daisy Rockwell, why Partition remains a favourite topic for authors, and how the just-concluded Jaipur Literature Festival has inspired similar festivals across India.

    • Curtain raiser | Jaipur Literature Festival 2023: Books, borders and everything in between

      Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah's keynote address will kick off the 16th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival on January 19.

    • Daisy Rockwell: 'None of my translations have been nominated for an award in India before'

      The translator of Geetanjali Shree's International Booker Prize-winning Tomb of Sand — shortlisted for JCB Prize for Literature 2022 and longlisted for Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2022 — on life after the win, mentoring young translators and her forthcoming projects

    • Where Ret Samadhi / Tomb of Sand derives its power from

      The book is written in the spirit that stories are nomads.

    • A queer reading of the International Booker-winning Hindi novel ‘Tomb of Sand’

      A monumental literary work, Shree’s novel is particularly notable for breaking several binaries.

    • Twitter rejoices as novel ‘Tomb of Sand’, originally written in Hindi, wins International Booker Prize

      International Booker Prize: 'Tomb of Sand' by Geetanjali Shree is the first book originally written in any Indian language to win the coveted award.

    • Geetanjali Shree wins International Booker Prize for first Hindi novel 'Tomb of Sand'

      Tomb of Sand', originally Ret Samadhi', is set in northern India and follows an 80-year-old woman in a tale the Booker judges dubbed a joyous cacophony and an "irresistible novel".

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