Geetanjali Shree

Nov 11, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Geetanjali Shree |Daisy Rockwell |Tarun K. Saint |Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Geetanjali Shree acquired well-deserved international recognition when she was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2022 for her novel Tomb of Sand, translated by Daisy Rockwell from the Hindi original, Ret Samadhi. This novel has since entered the pantheon of the finest works of Partition literature. As a chronicler of the continuing afterlife of Partition, Shree has been able to generate new insights, often from a distinctive feminist point of view.

Oct 13, 2024 | himalmag.com | Geetanjali Shree |Qurratulain Hyder

Rising hatred against India’s minority Muslim community is a central theme in Geentanjali Shree’s ‘Our City That Year’, translated by Daisy Rockwell. It tells a story about the violence of majority communities that hold power while claiming victim status. Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast from Himal Southasian, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia.

Aug 30, 2024 | scroll.in | Geetanjali Shree |Daisy Rockwell

So this is the place. Our city. Into this city the three of them came forth. Panicked. Determined to bring everything to the fore: the crime and the criminal; the wounded and the dead. All of it. They would see clearly, and clearly they would reveal whatever they saw. Sharad, Shruti and Hanif, who had resolved that they would write. That this time they could not remain silent. That everything must be brought out into the open. That the blowing wind was no breeze but a gale.

Jan 1, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Jon Fosse |Damion Searls |Geetanjali Shree |Daisy Rockwell

Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy RockwellFor the literary embodiment of the saying ‘new year, new you’, we give an emphatic nod in the direction of Geetanjali Shree’s 2022 International Booker Prize-winning novel Tomb of Sand. A 739-page tour de force, it follows an octogenarian, ‘Ma’, bound in a deep depression over her husband’s recent death. But Ma doesn’t give up that easily and emerges, butterfly-like, with a brand new lease of life, ready to take on the world.

Nov 6, 2023 | indianexpress.com | Geetanjali Shree

A language — any — is all about words and there is something magical in the live, ephemeral, polyvalent, dynamic quality of words. Bhartrihari, the great philosopher of language, articulates that magic. It is dhwani, sound, he says, which infuses, arbitrarily, meanings into a word. Yes, meanings into a word. No word has a fixed meaning. Its meanings keep changing. And, yet, each word is unique. As Bhartrihari puts it, there are no synonyms.