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Tomb of Sand wins Booker

Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and Vermont-based translator Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize on Thursday for Tomb of Sand. Originally written in Hindi, it's the first book in an Indian language to win. The two will split the 50,000-pound (C$80,400) prize. Tomb of Sand centres on a widow in her 80s who travels to Pakistan to confront the trauma she experienced as a teenager during the subcontinent's 1947 partition into India and Pakistan. The International Booker Prize is awarded annually to a translated fictional work published in the U.K. or Ireland. It runs alongside the Booker Prize for English-language fiction.

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