International Booker Prize

Express News Service This is the story of Chunhui, or the Girl of Spring who, decades after her death, is celebrated as the Red Brick Queen. This is also the story of Chunhui’s mother Geumbok, whose dogged pursuits,…

Express News Service Eva Baltasar’s Boulder is among the seven titles shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize. Translated from the Catalan by Julia Sanches, it has every making of a winner. The 112-page…

Express News Service Perumal Murugan who, in 2015, declared himself “dead” in a Facebook post, in an act of “literary suicide”, following the right-wing attack on his novel Maadhorubagan (One Part Woman), is back in…

Express News Service 2022 was a landmark year in the history of Indian literature. Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, originally written in Hindi and translated into English by Daisy Rockwell, bagged the International…

By PTI NEW DELHI: Propelled into the spotlight after her International Booker Prize win, author Geetanjali Shree says the public gaze is a huge adjustment but one she knows will fade away over time so she can get…

By PTI LONDON: Geetanjali Shree has become the first Indian author to win the prestigious International Booker Prize for her "utterly original" Hindi novel 'Tomb of Sand', a family saga set in northern India about an…