Daisy Rockwell

Nov 11, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Geetanjali Shree |Daisy Rockwell |Tarun K. Saint |Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Geetanjali Shree acquired well-deserved international recognition when she was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2022 for her novel Tomb of Sand, translated by Daisy Rockwell from the Hindi original, Ret Samadhi. This novel has since entered the pantheon of the finest works of Partition literature. As a chronicler of the continuing afterlife of Partition, Shree has been able to generate new insights, often from a distinctive feminist point of view.

Aug 30, 2024 | scroll.in | Geetanjali Shree |Daisy Rockwell

So this is the place. Our city. Into this city the three of them came forth. Panicked. Determined to bring everything to the fore: the crime and the criminal; the wounded and the dead. All of it. They would see clearly, and clearly they would reveal whatever they saw. Sharad, Shruti and Hanif, who had resolved that they would write. That this time they could not remain silent. That everything must be brought out into the open. That the blowing wind was no breeze but a gale.

Jul 10, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Daisy Rockwell

By Daisy Rockwell July 10, 2024 The Lego Metaphor, Part OneI once saw a Lego metaphor for translation. On some online forum somewhere. I liked it, but it was slightly off, and then I forgot it. So I had to make up a new one. I’ve thought of a few versions. I’m still trying to get it right. Here is one version:Imagine (if you will)that you have purchased the Hogwarts Castle Lego set. You have given up the dining room table for this project.

Jan 1, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Jon Fosse |Damion Searls |Geetanjali Shree |Daisy Rockwell

Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy RockwellFor the literary embodiment of the saying ‘new year, new you’, we give an emphatic nod in the direction of Geetanjali Shree’s 2022 International Booker Prize-winning novel Tomb of Sand. A 739-page tour de force, it follows an octogenarian, ‘Ma’, bound in a deep depression over her husband’s recent death. But Ma doesn’t give up that easily and emerges, butterfly-like, with a brand new lease of life, ready to take on the world.

Jun 18, 2023 | nytimes.com | Geetanjali Shree |Daisy Rockwell

The Big Ideas: Who Do You Think You Are? The writer and translator who won the 2022 International Booker Prize talk about their relationship as interpreters of words and feelings, and about the alchemy of translation itself. Geetanjali Shree and This essay is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a single question: Who do you think you are? You can read more by visiting The Big Ideas series page.