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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 ...
Jun 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.
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.
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...
Dec 23, 2023 · Jhumpa Lahiri on being an outsider everywhere, telling the other side of the Roman story in her new book Roman Stories and the importance of defending free speech
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Art of Fiction No. 262. Interviewed by Francesco Pacifico. Issue 247, Spring 2024. In Florence, on her first trip to Italy, 1994. All photographs courtesy of Jhumpa Lahiri. My first conversations with Jhumpa Lahiri took place in Rome this past July, in her apartment near the Janiculum, above Trastevere.
May 18, 2022 · NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Jhumpa Lahiri about her latest book 'Translating Myself and Others,' and the impact translating has had on her own writing in both Italian and...
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. Unaccustomed Earth is a new collection of short stories.
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...
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...
