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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 ...
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.
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 story just sort of came to me,” Lahiri says. “I think about the different kinds of people who pass in and out of the city and inhabit the city and how stratified the city is ...
Jhumpa Lahiri Leslie Donald Epstein (born May 4, 1938 in Los Angeles ) [ 1 ] is an American educator , essayist , and novelist . Epstein is currently Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University .
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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 ...
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] The book also was at #3 on the ...