Jhumpa Lahiri Biography

Jhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author celebrated for her poignant explorations of identity, immigration, and belonging. Her debut collection, “Interpreter of Maladies” (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Hemingway Award, capturing the Indian-American experience with lyrical precision. Her novel “The Namesake” (2003) became a cultural touchstone, adapted into an acclaimed film. Lahiri’s work, including “Unaccustomed Earth” (2008) and “The Lowland’ (2013), delves into family, displacement, and cultural duality. A London-born daughter of Indian immigrants, she grew up in Rhode Island and teaches at Princeton University. Lahiri holds degrees from Barnard and Boston University. Fluent in Italian, she has written and translated works in Italian, like “In Other Words” (2016).

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