Geetanjali Shree
- India
- Guest at the ilb: 2025
born 1957 in Mainpuri, India is a Hindi- and English-language novelist, dramatist, and literary theorist. She has authored novels, short stories, and scripts for theatrical performances. She a founding member of Vivadi, a Delhi-based group that stages plays and organises workshops and seminars on topics of contemporary interest. Her works have been translated into many languages from India and worldwide; she has also taken part in various international residencies and lectured at institutions all over the world. She is the winner of the International Booker Prize for 2022 for the English translation of her novel »Ret Samadhi« titled »Tomb of Sand« [tr. Daisy Rockwell], which also received the Warwick Prize for Literature in Translation. The novel’s French translation [»Ret Samadhi: Au-dela de la frontier«, tr. Annie Montaut] was shortlisted for the Emile Guimet Prize. In 2025, Shree is DAAD Artist-in-Residence in Berlin.
Last Update: 2025
The Roof Beneath Their Feet HarperCollins India
Gurugram, 2013 [Original 2001]
[tr. Rahul Soni]
Im leeren Raum
Lotos Werkstatt
Berlin, 2018 [Original 2006]
[Ü. Georg Lechner]
Tomb of Sand
Tilted Axis Press
London, 2021 [Original 2018]
[tr. Daisy Rockwell]
Our City that Year
Tilted Axis Press
London, 2025 [Original 1998]
[tr. Daisy Rockwell]