Indian International Booker winner

                                                        Geetanjali Shree 

  Indian author Geetanjali Shree has won the International Booker Prize for her “utterly original” Hindi novel ‘Tomb of Sand,’ a family saga set in northern India that tells the story of an 80-year-old woman who travels to Pakistan to confront the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of Partition.Attending this year’s award ceremony was Daisy Rockwell’s 64th birthday, and she thanked the organisers of this year’s event for bringing them to London. The award is shared equally between the author and the translator.