International Booker's Prize News
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.
Reflecting upon becoming the first work of fiction in Hindi to make the Booker cut, the 64-year-old author said it feels good to be the means of that happening.
For the first time in 2022, the shortlisted authors and translators will each receive 2,500 pounds, an increase from 1,000 pounds in previous years'
Geetanjali Shree's bool has been translated into English by Daisy Rockwell
The author called it a very special recognition
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