Geetanjali Shree becomes first Indian to win International Booker Prize for Hindi novel 'Tomb of Sand'
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Author Geetanjali Shree's Hindi novel ‘Tomb of Sand' has become the first book in any Indian language to win the prestigious International Booker Prize. At a ceremony in London on Thursday, 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 and shared with the book's English translator, Daisy Rockwell.