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Several of the shortlisted authors and translators read from their books at the Southbank Centre in London. Whose names will be announced as winners today?
'Tomb of Sand' by Geetanjali Shree is the first novel translated from an Indian language to win the award. Shree and Rockwell split £50,000.
Author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell share the £50,000 prize for ‘extraordinarily funny and fun’ Tomb of Sand
Mieko Kawakami’s novel “Heaven” has been shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize hosted in Britain, a translation category of the prestigious Booker Prize.
Translators Daisy Rockwell, Anton Hur, Frances Riddle, Jennifer Croft, Sam Bett and David Boyd, and Damion Searls are in the running to win the prize.