Tomb of Sand, which won the International Booker Prize in 2022, is the translation of a novel written in which language?
- A.Bengali
- B.Hindi
- C.Malayalam
- D.Marathi
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The correct answer is B, Hindi. Tomb of Sand is Daisy Rockwell's English translation of Ret Samadhi, a Hindi novel by Geetanjali Shree about an eighty year old woman who, after the death of her husband, travels to Pakistan to face the memories of Partition. Its win in 2022 was the first for a book written in any Indian language, and the prize money was shared between the author and the translator.
Option A, Bengali, is the language of Tagore, whose Gitanjali brought him the Nobel Prize, but no Bengali book has won this prize. Option C, Malayalam, and Option D, Marathi, are languages with long literary traditions and many Jnanpith winners, yet neither had produced an International Booker winner. The International Booker is given for a translated book, which is what separates it from the Booker Prize for a novel written in English.
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- A.5
- B.7
- C.4
- D.6
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- A.Mother Teresa
- B.Nargis Dutt
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- A.Gora
- B.Gitanjali
- C.The Home and the World
- D.Chokher Bali
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- A.1913
- B.1928
- C.1930
- D.1947
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