Daisy Rockwell

Daisy Rockwell is a renowned American writer, an award-winning literary translator working with Hindi and Urdu literature, and a visual artist. Her groundbreaking translations of South Asian classics have drawn wider readership and recognition for writing from the subcontinent than few have ever managed to achieve. The most prominent of these successes include her translation of Krishna Sobti’s final novel, A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There, which became the first South Asian book to win the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work in 2020.