International Man Booker Prize-2022 conferred

Highlights:

• Indian writer Geetanjali Shree along with American translator Daisy Rockwell has won the 2022 International Booker Prize for the book titled “Tomb of Sand.” 
• This book has been originally written in Hindi and is the first book in any Indian language to have won this high-profile award. 
• This award recognizes fiction from across the world that has been translated into the English language. 
• This award carries prize money of 50,000-pound ($63,000) which will be split between Rockwell and Shree.
• The original name of the book is “Ret Samadhi.” 
• This book narrates the story of an 80-year-old woman experiencing a deep depression after her husband passes away. 
• Eventually, the lead character overcomes her depression and decides to visit Pakistan to face the past that she left behind during the 1947 partition. 
• The book written by Shree beat five other finalists including Argentina’s Claudia Piñeiro, Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk, and Bora Chung, a South Korean author to be awarded this prize at a ceremony that was held in London.

• The International Booker Prize is awarded annually to a translated work of fiction that has been published in Ireland or the U.K. 
• This award is run alongside the Booker Prize which is awarded for English-language fiction. 
• The prize is one of the two literary awards that is handed out by the Booker Prize Foundation, a charity whose goal is to promote the value and art of literature for the benefit of the public as well as to acknowledge the often-unacknowledged work of the many literary translators. 
• In 2005, the International Booker Prize began with the name Man Booker International Prize and was given biennially till 2015. 
• Since 2016 it is being awarded annually. 
• The prize carries an award of 50,000 pounds that is divided equally between the translator and the author. Also, each shortlisted translator and author also receive 2,500 pounds.