Ranjit Hoskote
An Indian novel wins the International Booker Prize for the first time. The act of translation must now be sustained and strengthened
A finely delineated and sharply observed story of a middle-class Delhi family during Partition, by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, wins the International Booker Prize. A first for a translation from India
This 1930s chronicle of a lower middle class youth brings out the genius of novelist and playwright Upendranath Ashk, known as the Proust of Hindi literature