Geetanjali Shree in Conversation

India’s great chronicler of memory, family, identity and belonging sits down to discuss her luminous, genre-defying books and extraordinary literary career.

‘Anything worth doing transcends borders,’ writes Geetanjali Shree in her 2022 International Booker Prize-winning novel, Tomb of Sand. This also encapsulates her career to date. An author writing in Hindi, her gaze firmly fixed on the lives of Indian characters, Shree tells polyphonic, big-hearted stories that chime with universal truth.

From Our City That Year, an evocative tale of love, loss and the indelible marks left by time, to the poetic and inventive short stories in the collection Once Elephants Lived Here, Shree’s work offers readers insight into the rich plurality of the world.

Join her for a conversation about the ascendency of South Asian literature, the life-changing impact of winning the International Booker Prize and how storytelling connects us across backgrounds and borders. With Mridula Nath Chakraborty.