Though Geetanjali Shree’s novel in Hindi, Ret Samadhi, was published in 2018, the glare of publicity fell on her with the Booker Prize for the English translation Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell in 2022. The tale is of an octogenarian woman who rises from deep depression to fly in the face of convention and break across borders and boundaries. This session in Hindi focuses on the original novel-- its experimental storytelling, its innovative digressions, and its viewpoint on the Partition through an octogenarian protagonist. Does a language bestow a special slant to a narrative that might get lost in translation? In conversation with author Tanuj Solanki, Shree and Rockwell discuss the nuances of language, translation, prizes and fame.
Geetanjali Shree has written five novels: Mai, Hamara Shahar Us Baras, Tirohit, Khali Jagah and Ret Samadhi, and five anthologies of short stories in Hindi. Her stories and novels have been translated into French, German, English, Polish, Serbian, and Japanese as well as in Indian languages. She has received various awards for her contribution to Hindi literature. The French translation of her novel, Ret Samadhi, was shortlisted for the Emile Guimet Prize, 2021, and the English translation won the International Booker Prize, 2022. Shree also writes scripts for theatre and essays in English and Hindi for various publications.
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Daisy Rockwell is a New England-based artist and translator of Hindi and Urdu literature. In 2022, she won the International Booker Prize, along with author Geetanjali Shree, for her translation of Shree’s Hindi novel, Tomb of Sand.
Tanuj Solanki's new novel, Manjhi's Mayhem, has been called 'Indian noir at its finest'. His novel, The Machine is Learning, was longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2020. In 2019, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for his short-story collection, Diwali in Muzaffarnagar
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