Bookers Prize awarded to Ms. Geetanjali Shree
हिन्दी जगत के लिए ये सचमुच बहुत बड़ी उपलब्धि है! गीतांजलि श्री को हार्दिक बधाई! गीतांजलि श्री के उपन्यास 'रेत समाधि' के अंग्रेज़ी अनुवाद Tomb of Sand को बुकर प्राइज़ मिला। Finally!!!..... The Bookers Prize is awarded to Geetanjali Shree's Hindi Translated book - Tomb of Sand. Author GeetanjaliShree's Hindi novel Tomb of Sand' has become the first book in any Indian language to win the prestigious International Booker Prize. At a ceremony in London on Thursday, the New Delhi-based writer said she was completely overwhelmed with the "bolt from the blue" as she accepted her prize, worth GBP 50,000 and shared with the book's English translator, Daisy Rockwell. As said earlier in of the posts, this time all the shortlisted six books are translated works.And this happens to be the first entry of an Indian book. Thus, encouraging the regional languages is the order of the day! About the book: Tomb of Sand begins as a kind of comedy of manners, centred on a m