Rockwell grew up in western
Massachusetts. Both her parents are artists. She is the granddaughter of the painter, illustrator, and author
Norman Rockwell,[5] and is an established painter in her own right.
Rockwell has published numerous translations from Hindi and Urdu, including her collection of translations of selected stories by
Upendranath Ashk, Hats and Doctors (
Penguin, 2013),[8] Ashk's Falling Walls (Penguin, 2015),
Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas (Penguin, 2016), and
Khadija Mastur’s The Women’s Courtyard (Penguin, 2018). Her translation of
Krishna Sobti’s final novel, A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There (Penguin, 2019) is the first South Asian book to be awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work in 2020.[9][10] Her translation of
Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (
Tilted Axis Press, 2021) was the first South Asian book to be shortlisted for the International Booker Prize;[11][12][13][14][15][16][17] it went on to win the 2022 edition.[18]
Rockwell is also a writer, painter and artist.[19][20] She has published a critical biography of
Upendranath Ashk (2004, Penguin),[21] and a novel titled Taste (Foxhead Books, 2014). In 2012, she published The Little Book of Terror (Foxhead Books), a volume of paintings and essays on the
Global War on Terror. She also paints under the alias Lapata, which means "missing" or "disappeared" in Urdu.[22]
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"Daisy Rockwell". Bennington Museum | Grandma Moses | Vermont History and Art. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
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^Ashk, Upendranath Ashk (2013).
Hats and Doctors. Translated by Daisy Rockwell (translation ed.). New Delhi: Penguin Random House India.
ISBN9780143417187.
^Ashk, Upendranath (2015).
Falling Walls. Translated by Daisy Rockwell. New Delhi: Penguin Random House India.
ISBN9780143423690.
^Sahni, Bhisham (2016).
Tamas. Translated by Daisy Rockwell. New Delhi: Penguin Random House India.
ISBN978-0143063681.