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On January 22, 2015, Lahiri won the US$50,000 DSC Prize for Literature for The Lowland In these works, Lahiri explored the Indian-immigrant experience in America. Unaccustomed Earth (2008) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, while her second novel, The Lowland (2013), was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. The Namesake was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and was made into a major motion picture. 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 Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (born July 11, 1967) is an American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and more recently, in Italian.

2021 Dottorato Ad Honorem, University of Bologna.

Like the interpreter of the title story, Lahiri translates between the strict traditions of her ancestors and a baffling new world. Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, these stories speak with passion and wisdom to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. A latchkey kid with a single working mother finds affinity with a woman from Calcutta.

An Indian American girl recognizes her cultural identity during a Halloween celebration while the Pakastani civil war rages on television in the background. With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide.Ī blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions that unravel their tattered domestic peace. With a new foreword by Domenico Starnone, this stunning debut collection flawlessly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.