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Jhumpa Lahiri
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Jhumpa Lahiri is a British-American author and translator, acclaimed for fiction and essays written in English and Italian.
Biography
Jhumpa Nilanjana Sudeshna 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, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award. The Namesake (2003) was adapted into a film; Unaccustomed Earth (2008) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award; and The Lowland (2013) was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction and won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2015. Much of her work has explored the Indian-immigrant experience in America.
In 2012 Lahiri moved to Rome and has since published essays and begun writing in Italian, including the novel Dove mi trovo (2018) and the 2023 collection Roman Stories. She compiled and edited the Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories and has translated some works between Italian and English. Lahiri received the National Humanities Medal in 2014, taught creative writing at Princeton from 2015 to 2022, and in 2022 became the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College.
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Books by Jhumpa Lahiri
In altre parole
A series of reflections on the author's experiences learning a new language and living abroad, presented in a dual-language edition.