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Meet American Daisy Rockwell, who translates some of India’s finest Hindi writers into English

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‘I was tired of translating detailed descriptions of male desire and women’s breasts.’

Daisy Rockwell is the translator of Hats and Doctors , a collection of short stories by the Hindi writer Upendranath Ashk, as well as of Ashk’s famous novel, Girti Diwarein , titled Falling Walls in English. Her 2004 book, Upendranath Ashk: A Critical Biography , is an exemplary work of literary biography, locating Ashk and his writing within the history of Hindi language and literature. An American, Rockwell is also an artist ­– her grandfather was the legendary painter (and author and illustrator) Norman Rockwell – and has written a novel titled Taste . She spoke to Scroll.in about how she g

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