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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 ...
Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by American author of Indian origin Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
The Lowland is the second novel by American author Jhumpa Lahiri, published by Alfred A. Knopf and Random House in 2013. The book received praise from critics and was commercially successful. On October 13, 2013, The Lowland reached #5 of the New York Times Best-sellers list of combined print and ebooks. [1]
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.
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
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.
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and author of two previous books. Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award and The New Yorker Debut of the Year.
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 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...
