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Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (born July 11, 1967) is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian. Her debut collection of short-stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award , and her first novel, The Namesake ...
Jul 7, 2024 · Jhumpa Lahiri, English-born American novelist and short-story writer whose works illuminate the immigrant experience, in particular that of East Indians. Her notable books included the short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies and the novels The Namesake and The Lowland.
Apr 3, 2014 · Jhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author known for works of fiction like 'Interpreter of Maladies,' 'The Namesake,' 'Unaccustomed Earth' and 'The Lowland.'
Apr 29, 2021 · Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel — which she wrote in Italian, then translated back to English herself — centers on a middle-aged Italian woman trying to figure out her place in the world.
Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri was born in London and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Brought up in America by a mother who wanted to raise her children to be Indian, she learned about her Bengali heritage from an early age.
Oct 6, 2023 · When Jhumpa Lahiri released her first story collection, “Interpreter of Maladies,” in 1999, it earned her near-immediate status as one of the English language’s most exciting working...
The daughter of a librarian, Lahiri loved reading and writing at an early age. But she made it through college and four graduate programs before compiling the short story collection that became...
6 days ago · Anne Xu: Professor Lahiri discussed her latest short story collection, Roman Stories, as well as themes of translation in her work.Roman Stories was originally written in Italian, then translated by Lahiri and her co-translator Todd Portnowitz into English.Many of the short stories were actually translated during Lahiri’s time at Princeton, and she recounts how alienating the experience of ...
The official site for Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, author of Unaccustomed Earth, The Namesake, and Interpreter of Maladies. See reviews, bio, and more.
Jhumpa Lahiri published her first story in The New Yorker, “A Temporary Matter,” in 1998, a year before her Pulitzer-winning début collection, “Interpreter of Maladies,” was...
