The novel… is the first in an Indian language to win the International Booker Prize, and the first in Hindi to even secure a nomination… [Translator Daisy Rockwell’s] work on the book showed “the small miracle of translation,” [Frank Wynne, chair of the judges for this year’s prize,] said, borrowing a phrase from the Italian author Italo Calvino.

The International Booker Prize is awarded every year to the best book translated into English and published in Britain or Ireland. It is separate from the better-known Booker Prize, awarded for novels originally written in English, but it comes with the same prize money and has helped turn some authors into stars.

(Alex Marshall, “Hindi Novel Wins International Booker Prize for the First Time,” NYTimes, 5-26-22)

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