Indian author Geetanjali Shree and US translator Daisy Rockwell have won the International Booker Prize for Hindi novel “Tomb of Sand”, a first for a book in an Indian language.
This prestigious award of 50,000 ($63,000, 59,000-euro) is awarded to fiction from around the world that has been translated into English. The award is shared between the author and translator.
Judges hailed “a book that is engaging, funny, and utterly original, at the same time as being an urgent and timely protest against the destructive impact of borders and boundaries, whether between religions, countries, or genders.” Judges panel chair Frank Wynne said the novel “has an exuberance and a life and a power and a passion which the world can do with right now”.
International Booker Prize should not be confused with Booker Prize, they are two separate awards. International Booker Prize is given to an author for their work written in an international language, then translated into English. Meanwhile, Booker Prize is awarded to a book/novel written in English.
Indians who won Booker Prize
Five Indians have won the prestigious Booker Prize award till now:
- VS Naipaul won the award for In a Free State in 1971
- Salman Rushdie for Midnight’s Children in 1981
- Arundhati Roy for The God of Small Things in 1997
- Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss in 2006
- Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger in 2008
Indians nominated for International Booker Prize:
Six Indians have been nominated for International Booker Prize apart from Shree:
- Salman Rushdie in 2007,
- Mahasweta Devi and VS Naipaul in 2009,
- Rohinton Mistry in 2011
- UR Ananthamurthy in 2013
- Amitav Ghosh in 2015
No comments:
Post a Comment