Daisy Rockwell

Daisy Rockwell (born 1969) is an American writer and literary translator working with Hindi and Urdu literature, and a visual artist. Her translations of South Asian classics have drawn readership and recognition for writing from the subcontinent. The most prominent of these 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.

Her English translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (Tilted Axis Press, 2021) became the first South Asian book to be shortlisted for and to win the International Booker Prize. Additional acclaim that Rockwell has received include the 2022 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the Distinguished Translator Award by Vani Foundation, presented at the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2023, and the English PEN x SALT Award 2025 for Our City That Year. Her work has also been supported by the NEA and the NEH, and she has been a translator in residence at Princeton University.

Rockwell has published two novels Taste and Alice Sees Ghosts and an essay collection.