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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 ] 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 ...
The Pulitzer-winning author discusses her new short story collection.
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.
Unaccustomed Earth is a collection of short stories from American author Jhumpa Lahiri.It is her second collection of stories, following Interpreter of Maladies (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel "Whereabouts" was uniquely written – it's an English translation of a story she originally wrote and published in Italian.
Lahiri's characters represent the diversity of the Asian American community, abandoning any notion of one specific Indian culture. Katrak also analyzes the "When Mr. Pirzada Comes to Dine" story. She focuses on Lilian's struggle to mesh the foreign history--her ethnic history--that she learns from interactions with Mr. Pirzada and from books in ...
Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri declined to accept an award from New York City's Noguchi Museum after it fired three employees for wearing keffiyeh head scarves, an emblem of ...
Whereabouts was first written in Italian, Lahiri's second book in the language after In Other Words, a non-fiction book. [2] Though the city in which the book is set is not disclosed, Lahiri has said it "[...] was born in Rome and set in my head in Rome and written almost entirely on return visits to Rome".