Geetanjali Shree (Ghee-TAHN-juh-lee Shree) is the author of five novels, including Tomb of Sand, for which she was awarded the 2022 International Book Prize, and five story collections. Her work has been translated into several languages and has received numerous accolades. She lives in New Delhi.
Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. Her translation of Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand won the 2022 International Booker Prize and the 2022 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
In 2020, she was the winner of the Scaglioni Prize for Translation of a Literary Work for Krishna Sobti's A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There. She has received grants for her translations from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.