In their own words: International Booker winners Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell

Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’, translated by Daisy Rockwell, is the first Hindi work to win the International Booker Prize.

Geetanjali Shree

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Daisy Rockwell

· May 27, 2022 · 08:30 am

How Daisy Rockwell translated the first Hindi novel to be on the Booker International longlist

Rockwell’s translation of Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’ is the first book from India to be on the Booker International longlist for translated works.

Daisy Rockwell

· Mar 13, 2022 · 12:30 pm

What translating Krishna Sobti revealed: She did not write to help the reader understand

The legendary writer, who died on January 25 at the age of 93, wrote to show what the Hindi language can do.

Daisy Rockwell

· Jan 27, 2019 · 10:30 am

Why the Hindi poetry establishment is enraged by Shubham Shree’s irreverent, prizewinning poem

‘Writing poetry is bogus! / Yeah, and useless! / Totally.’

Daisy Rockwell

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Mangalesh Dabral

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Shubham Shree

· Aug 12, 2016 · 08:30 am

Why Daisy Rockwell is painting portraits of Black women who committed suicide in US jails

'The poor and the disenfranchised are used as municipal piggy banks through aggressive policing of minor crimes.'

Daisy Rockwell

· Jul 08, 2016 · 07:30 pm

What do we do with a kameez in English? The translator’s fashion dilemma

In Upendranath Ashk’s Hindi novel, ‘Jumper-numa kameez mein uske patli-patli gori baanhen…’ present a serious translation challenge.

Daisy Rockwell

· Jun 26, 2016 · 07:30 am

Tamas 3.0: How to retranslate a novel already translated twice

After translations by Jai Ratan and by the author himself, Bhisham Sahni’s 'Tamas' gets an all-new English version.

Daisy Rockwell

· Mar 04, 2016 · 08:30 am

Lessons learned: Susanne and Lloyd Rudolph, in memoriam

The University of Chicago professors, joint recipients of the Padma Bhushan, had been teaching and writing about India since 1956.

Daisy Rockwell

· Jan 25, 2016 · 02:30 pm

Five timeless translations to read, and what bad translations are

A translators examines why many classic translations of Indian literature are imperfect, and adds her recommendations.

Daisy Rockwell

· Jul 26, 2015 · 01:30 pm

Why Hindi writer Upendranath Ashk could be India’s Marcel Proust

The translator of Ashk’s epic seven-volume novel ‘Falling Walls’ explains the similarities with Proust’s ‘Remembrance of Things Past’.

Daisy Rockwell

· Jul 04, 2015 · 01:30 pm