Rockwell to get Vani Foundation award during JLF

Jaipur: Painter and translator of Hindi and Urdu literature, living in northern New England, Daisy Rockwell will receive 7th Vani Foundation distinguished translator award 2022-2023 at the Jaipur BookMark during the Jaipur Literature Festival. Her translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand has won the International Booker Prize.
Rockwell has published numerous translations from Hindi and Urdu, including Ashk’s Falling Walls (2015), Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas (2016), and Khadija Mastur’s The Women’s Courtyard. Her translation of Krishna Sobti’s final novel, A Gujarat here, a Gujarat there, was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work in 2019.tnn