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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 Namesake (2003) is the debut novel by British-American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It was originally published in The New Yorker and was later expanded to a full-length novel. It explores many of the same emotional and cultural themes as Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection Interpreter of Maladies.
As with much of Lahiri's work, Unaccustomed Earth considers the lives of Indian American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book was Lahiri's first to top The New York Times Best Seller list , where it debuted at #1.
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.
The next book from Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, will highlight her work as a translator. Princeton University Press announced Monday that Lahiri's “Translating ...
Roles of Space in "The Third and Final Continent ("American Spaces in the Fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri" by Judith Caesar) Mrs. Croft repeatedly mentions locking the doors. It is the first thing that she says to the narrator, and she asks him if he has locked up every time that he enters.
Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel "Whereabouts" was uniquely written – it's an English translation of a story she originally wrote and published in Italian.