Daisy Rockwell
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Daisy Rockwell is an award-winning Hindi and Urdu language translator and artist based in northern New England. She has translated a number of classic works of Hindi and Urdu literature, including Upendranath Ashk's Falling Walls, Bhisham Sahni's Tamas (book), and Khadija Mastur's The Women's Courtyard. Her 2021 translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand is the first South Asian book to be shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Personal life
Rockwell grew up in western Massachusetts. Both her parents are artists. She is the granddaughter of legendary painter, illustrator and author Norman Rockwell.
Education
She has been a student of Hindi, Latin, French, German, and ancient Greek for many years. She received her PhD in South Asian literature from the University of Chicago, where she studied Hindi literature, translation, and social sciences under A. K. Ramanujan, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph[1] and Colin Masica|Colin P Masica. In 1998, she received a grant to write her PhD dissertation on the Hindi author Upendranath Ashk.[2]
Works
Rockwell has published numerous translations from Hindi and Urdu, including her collection of translations of selected stories by Upendranath Ashk, Hats and Doctors (Penguin, 2013)[3], Ashk's Falling Walls (Penguin, 2015), Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas (Penguin, 2016), and Khadija Mastur’s The Women’s Courtyard (Penguin, 2018). Her translation of Krishna Sobti’s final novel, A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There (Penguin, 2019) is the first South Asian book to be awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work in 2020[4]. Her translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (Tilted Axis Press, 2021) is the first first South Asian book to be shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Rockwell is also a writer, painter and artist.[12][13] She has published a critical biography of Upendranath Ashk (2004, Penguin)[14], and a novel titled Taste (Foxhead Books, 2014). In 2012, she published The Little Book of Terror (Foxhead Books), a volume of paintings and essays on the War on terror. She also paints under the alias Lapata, which means "missing" or "disappeared" in Urdu.
References
- ↑ "An Interview with Daisy Rockwell, Author, Artist and a Hindi-Urdu Translator | Jaya's blog". Retrieved 2022-04-10.
- ↑ ""Booker nod is a big win. It will create awareness about Hindi translations," say Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ↑ Gupta, Trisha. "Meet the American who translates some of India's finest Hindi writers into English". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ "Daisy Rockwell". Tilted Axis Press. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ "Tomb of Sand | Geetanjali Shree: 'Tomb of Sand' writes history - Geetanjali Shree's translation is 1st Hindi novel in Booker prize longlist". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ "International Booker prize announces longlist 'tracing ring around the world'". the Guardian. 2022-03-10. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ Marshall, Alex (2022-04-07). "Women Dominate Shortlist for International Booker Prize". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ "Geetanjali Shree's 'Tomb of Sand' first Hindi novel on International Booker shortlist". ThePrint. 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ "Discover the longlist: Daisy Rockwell, 'I think of the translator and the author as ballroom dancers' | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ↑ April 8, Aditya Mani Jha; April 18, 2022 ISSUE DATE; April 8, 2022UPDATED; Ist, 2022 14:45. "Daisy Rockwell: Meet the translator of the first Hindi novel to be nominated for the Booker Prize". India Today. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Rockwell, Daisy. "How Daisy Rockwell translated the first Hindi novel to be on the Booker International longlist". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ↑ Jones, Alexina. "Daisy Rockwell". Bennington Museum | Grandma Moses | Vermont History and Art. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ Rockwell, Daisy. "Why Daisy Rockwell is painting portraits of Black women who committed suicide in US jails". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ↑ "Daisy Rockwell". Penguin Random House India. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
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