Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Our City That Year’ is on the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist

Geetanjali Shree’s Our City That Year, translated by Daisy Rockwell from the original 1998 Hindi novel Hamara Shahar Us Baras, is one of the 13 books longlisted for the 10th annual award of the £1000 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2026.

Rockwell and Shree were co-winners of the prize in 2022 for the International Booker Prize winner Tomb of Sand, translated from the original Hindi novel Ret Samadhi (with Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla, translated from the Swedish by Peter Graves).

The prize was established by the University of Warwick in 2017 to address the gender imbalance in translated literature and to increase the number of international women’s voices especially among British and Irish readers.

This year, the competition received a total of 164 eligible entries representing 37 languages, the highest so far. The longlist covers 12 languages and includes fiction, poetry, short stories, and narrative non-fiction. The jury comprises Arifa Akbar, Véronique Tadjo, and Boyd Tonkin.

The longlisted titles:

• Batool Abu Akleen, 48kg., translated from Arabic (Palestine) by Batool Abu Akleen, with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti and Yasmin Zaher (Tenement Press / now available in a new, collaborative edition from Tenement & Penguin Press)

• Hanna Johansson, Body Double, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Kira Josefsson (Scribe Publications)

• Krisztina Tóth, Eye of the Monkey, translated from Hungarian (Hungary) by Ottilie...

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