{"id":44898,"date":"2022-05-27T06:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T21:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/may\/26\/first-novel-translated-from-hindi-wins-international-booker-prize"},"modified":"2022-05-27T06:15:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T21:15:14","slug":"first-novel-translated-from-hindi-wins-international-booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44898","title":{"rendered":"First novel translated from Hindi wins International Booker prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell share the \u00a350,000 prize for \u2018extraordinarily funny and fun\u2019 Tomb of Sand<\/p>\n<p>Geetanjali Shree\u2019s \u201cextremely exuberant and incredibly playful\u201d Tomb of Sand, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, has won the International Booker prize, becoming the first novel translated from Hindi to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Shree and Rockwell winning the \u00a350,000 prize \u2013 which is split between author and translator equally \u2013 not only marks the award\u2019s first Hindi winner, but also the first time a book originally written in any Indian language has won.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/may\/26\/first-novel-translated-from-hindi-wins-international-booker-prize\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell share the \u00a350,000 prize for \u2018extraordinarily funny and fun\u2019 Tomb of SandGeetanjali Shree\u2019s \u201cextremely exuberant and incredibly playful\u201d Tomb of Sand, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, has won&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[763,511,71,1041,62,2661,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-and-prizes","category-books","category-culture","category-fiction","category-india","category-international-booker-prize","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44899,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44898\/revisions\/44899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}