Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize on Thursday for Tomb Of Sand, a vibrant novel with a boundary-crossing 80-year-old heroine.
Originally written in Hindi, it’s the first book in any Indian language to win the high-profile award, which recognises fiction from around the world that has been translated into English. The £50,000-pound (RM277,000) prize money will be split between New Delhi-based Shree and Rockwell, who lives in Vermont.
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