Can there be any faithful version at all, and how much can one alter it before it becomes something else? Daisy Rockwell: ‘Homer will outlive us all’Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize in 2022 for her translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand. For Rockwell, the question is not whether Nolan has betrayed Homer, but whether Homer can be betrayed at all. “Homer will outlive us all, as will Valmiki and Vyasa, because all of them created epics of such power that humans will never stop retelling them.” “I think Nolan has as much right to direct whatever version of the Odyssey he likes as Emily Wilson has to call it trash.