Geetanjali Shree
Author
Geetanjali Shree is the author of three novels and several story collections, and her work has been translated into English, French, German, Serbian and Korean. Tomb of Sand was the winner of the International Booker Prize in 2022. Shree was born in Mainpuri, India, in 1957. She has received and been shortlisted for a number of other awards and fellowships, and currently lives in New Delhi.
One on One with Geetanjali Shree
In her International Booker Prize-winning novel Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree explores the traumas of history and how they shape the present — and what it means to be a woman in today’s India. She talks about the groundbreaking elements of this monumental work with Ira Mathur, winner of the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction for her memoir Love The Dark Days, on three generations of women, set in India and the Caribbean.In her International Booker Prize-winning novel Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree explores the traumas of history and how they shape the present — and what it means to be a woman in today’s India. She talks about the groundbreaking elements of this monumental work with Ira Mathur, winner of the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction for her memoir Love The Dark Days, on three generations of women, set in India and the Caribbean.