Geetanjali Shree

Geetanjali Shree (born 1957 in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, India) is a Hindi-language novelist and short-story writer based in New Delhi. She studied history at Lady Shri Ram College and earned a master's degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University; she began writing fiction during doctoral research on the Hindi novelist Munshi Premchand.

Her novels include Mai, Hamara Shahar Us Baras, Tirohit and Khali Jagah. Her 2018 novel Ret Samadhi, translated into English by Daisy Rockwell as Tomb of Sand, won the 2022 International Booker Prize — the first book translated from Hindi, and the first from any Indian language, to receive the award.