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Geetanjali Shree (Geetanjali Pandey) was born on 1957 in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, India, is an Indian writer, born 1957. Discover Geetanjali Shree's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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1957

Geetanjali Shree (गीतांजलि श्री; born 12 June 1957), also known as Geetanjali Pandey, is an Indian Hindi-language novelist and short-story writer based in New Delhi, India.

She is the author of several short stories and five novels.

Shree was born in the city of Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh state on 12 June 1957.

As her father, Anirudh Pandey, was a civil servant, her family lived in various towns of Uttar Pradesh.

Shree says that it was this upbringing in Uttar Pradesh, along with a lack of children's books in English, that gave her a rich connection to Hindi.

She is ancestrally from Ghazipur District, Gondaur village.

At university, she studied history.

She completed a BA at Lady Shri Ram College, and a master's degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

After beginning her PhD work at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda on the Hindi writer Munshi Premchand, Shree became more interested in Hindi literature.

She wrote her first short story during her PhD, and turned to writing after graduation.

1987

Her first story, "Bel Patra" (1987), was published in the literary magazine Hans and was followed by a collection of short stories Anugoonj (1991).

The English translation of her novel Mai catapulted her to fame.

The novel is about 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 and Korean.

It has also been translated into English by Nita Kumar, who was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize, and into Urdu by Bashir Unwan with a preface by Intizar Hussain.

Other translations of the novel include French by Annie Montaut, and German by Reinhold Schein.

Shree's second novel Hamara Shahar Us Baras is set loosely after the incidents of Babri Masjid demolition.

1993

Mai (1993) - English translation: Mai Silently Motherly (2017)

1998

Hamara Shahar Us Baras (1998)

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2000

Her 2000 novel Mai was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2001, while its English translation by Nita Kumar was published by Niyogi Books in 2017.

In 2022, her novel Ret Samadhi (2018), translated into English as Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize.

Aside from fiction, she has written critical works on Premchand.

2001

Tirohit (2001) - English translation: The Roof Beneath Her Feet (2013)

2006

Her fourth novel, Khālī jagah (2006), has been translated into English (by Nivedita Menon as The Empty Space), French (by Nicola Pozza as Une place vide), and German (by Georg Lechner and Nivedita Menon as Im leeren Raum).

Khali Jagah (2006) - English translation: The Empty Space (2011)

2018

Her fifth novel, Ret Samadhi (2018), has been commended by Alka Saraogi for "its sweeping imagination and sheer power of language, unprecedented and uninhibited".

It has been translated into English by Daisy Rockwell as Tomb of Sand, and into French by Annie Montaut as Au-delà de la frontière.

On 26 May 2022, Tomb of Sand won the International Booker Prize, becoming the first book in Hindi and the first from an Indian writer to receive the accolade.

Ret Samadhi (2018) - English translation: Tomb of Sand (2022)

Shree also participates in theatre and works with Vivadi, a theatre group comprising writers, artists, dancers, and painters.

Shree is the recipient of the Indu Sharma Katha Samman award and has been a fellow of the Ministry of Culture, India, and Japan Foundation.

In 2022, Tomb of Sand became the first Hindi-language novel shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and subsequently won the prize.

In December 2022, Shree was named on the BBC's 100 Women list as one of the world's inspiring and influential women of the year.