Novel Booker Prize Winner Geetanjali Shree| Biography| Career | History
The way Oscar Award, Filmfare Award etc. are given for
outstanding work in the field of cinema, in the same way Booker Prize, Sahitya
Akademi Award etc. are given for contribution in literature. Under this award,
money is also given to the winners. In such a situation, today we will talk
about the Booker Prize. Because author Geetanjali Shree's novel 'Tomb of Sand'
has got the International Booker Prize. It has been translated by Daisy
Rockwell. It was among the 13 books in the world that were included in the list
for the International Booker Prize. This is the first 'fiction' in the Hindi
language that was in the running for this prestigious literary award. Let us
know what it is and why it is given?
what is Booker Prize
The Booker Prize is a literary prize awarded annually to the
best novel written in the English language and published in the UK or Ireland.
It is a high-profile literary prize and this is the reason why this award,
given every year, is awaited among almost every book lover.
Booker Prize History
This prize was started in 2005 as the Man Booker
International Prize. It was initially a biennial award, and there was no
condition that the literary work should be written in a language other than
English. Early winners of the Man Booker International Prize include Alice
Munro, Lydia Davis and Philip Roth, as well as Ismail Kadare and László
Krasznahorkai.
This is how winners are chosen
The Foundation selects an advisory committee to select the
winners for the award. This advisory committee consists of a writer, two
publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian and a chairperson. The
committee then selects a judging panel which changes every year. Judges are
selected for the prize from leading critics, writers and academics.
prize money
The prize money was initially £21,000, but was raised to
£50,000 in 2002. At the same time, Booker's rules were changed in 1971, which
means that books published in 1970 were not considered in 1970 or 71. In 2010,
a special prize, the Lost Man Booker Prize, was created by the Foundation to
help choose a winner from a long list of 22 novels from the 1970s.
Geetanjali Shree Biography
Geetanjali Shri (born 12 June 1957) is a well-known Hindi
story writer and novelist. Born in Mainpuri city of Uttar Pradesh, Geetanjali's
early education took place in different cities of Uttar Pradesh. He later
graduated from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi and MA in History from Jawaharlal
Nehru University. did. Premchand from Maharaj Sayaji Rao University, Vadodara
and received a research degree on the subject of Colonial Educated Classes of
North India.
After teaching at Jamia Millia Islamia University for a few
days, she went to the Center for Social Studies in Surat for post-Dr. While
there, he started writing stories.
Education of Gitanjali Shree
Shri spent his childhood in several cities of UP where his
father was posted as a civil servant. She moved to Delhi for higher education
where she studied history at Delhi University's Lady Shri Ram College, and did
her Masters from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
However, Geetanjali Shree gave up history and chose Hindi
for doctorate. He has a Ph.D. According to a report in Deccan Herald, in the
1980s on the famous Hindi writer Premchand of MS University, Baroda, around
that time he also started teaching at Zakir Hussain College and Jamia Millia
Islamia.
Career Geetanjali Shree
2.A novelist and short-story writer, Shree wrote his first
story 'Bel Patra' in 1987. He has five novels and several short story
collections.
3.She came into limelight with her first novel, My, the
English translation of which was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in
2001. The novel was translated into English by Neeta Kumar, who earned the
Sahitya Akademi Translation Award for it.
4.Gitanjali Shree's first novel “My” for women published by
Kali Publisher, the novel gives readers a glimpse into the life and
consciousness of three generations of women and the men around them in a North
Indian middle-class family. Mai has been translated into several languages
including Serbian, Urdu, French, German and Korean.
5.His second novel “Hamara Shahar Us Baras” centers around
the time when Ayodhya was plagued by communal violence after the Babri Masjid
demolition.
6.In 2006, he published the novel "Empty Space",
which focuses on themes such as violence, loss and the search for identity in
the contemporary world. Its French translation is titled 'Eun Place Vide'
(2018) and its English translation is called 'The Empty Space' (2011).
7.In 2018, he wrote the Hindi-language novel 'Reet Samadhi',
which talks about the devastating impact of borders between religions,
countries and genders. The novel comically presents the journey of an
80-year-old Indian woman to Pakistan after the death of her husband.
8.He received international recognition for the novel
"Tomb of Sand", which is the English translation of his novel 'Ret
Samadhi' (2018). The novel was translated into English by Daisy Rockwell.
9.His novels and stories have been translated into several
languages including Gujarati, Urdu, English, French, Siberian and Korean.
Geetanjali Shree NOVEL List –
1.maee
2.hamaara
shahar us baras
3.tirohit
4.khaalee
jagah
5.bel part
On 26 April 2022, Tomb of Sand won the International Booker
Prize, becoming the first Indian book to receive the honour. Geetanjali and
Daisy received a literary prize of £50,000, which they divided equally.
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