Tomb of Sand (originally titled Ret Samadhi, Hindi: रेत समाधि) is a 2018 Hindi-language novel by Indian author Geetanjali Shree. It was translated into...
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2017. In 2022, her novel Ret Samadhi (2018), translated into English as Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize. Aside from fiction...
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Daisy Rockwell (category University of Chicago alumni)
Khadija Mastur's The Women's Courtyard. Her 2021 translation of Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand was the first South Asian book to win the International Booker...
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March 2022; the shortlist on 7 April 2022 and the winner on 26 May 2022. Tomb of Sand is the first Hindi-language novel to receive a nomination, and the first...
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version of the novel, titled Cronorifugio and translated by Giuseppe Dell'Agata was awarded the Strega European Prize. In 2023, the English version of the...
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of Food (Translated from the Urdu by Baran Farooqi) Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand (Translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell) Sheela Tomy, Valli (Translated...
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otherworldly beings that use various forms of psychological torture on their victims with the ultimate goal of assuming their identity as "doppelgängers"...
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narrative meditates on the meaning of stories within stories and the difficulty of translation. The narrator speaks in the voice of Mademba, believing he is now...
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The tomb of Tutankhamun, also known by its tomb number, KV62, is the burial place of Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1332–1323 BC), a pharaoh of the Eighteenth...
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Lydia Davis (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
two pages long) short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and Madame...
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