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Nilanjana Sudeshna " Jhumpa " Lahiri[1] (born July 11, 1967) is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian. [2]
Oct 1, 2024 · Jhumpa Lahiri is an English-born American novelist and short-story writer whose works illuminate the immigrant experience, in particular that of East Indians. Her notable books include 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.'
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.
Nov 15, 2009 · Jhumpa Lahiri won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “Interpreter of Maladies.” Her most recent collection of short stories, “ Roman Stories ,” is due out in October.
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 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.
Sep 16, 2003 · Jhumpa Lahiri. 4.02. 274,257 ratings15,408 reviews. Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Jan 28, 2015 · In Other Words is at heart a love story--of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college.
Director, Program in Creative Writing; Professor of Creative Writing. Email. cwr-director@princeton.edu. Jhumpa Lahiri is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the John Florio Prize for Italian Translation, PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the Addison Metcalf Award from the ...
