![]() ![]() Her latest book, In Other Words (2016), is a memoir written - in Italian - while she and her family lived in Rome. Lahiri’s first novel to be written originally in Italian focuses on a narrator adrift, free from the anxieties of geography ‘Where her English thrived on the particular, Jhumpa Lahiri’s. Lahiri returned to short stories with the New York Times bestseller Unaccustomed Earth (2008), followed by her second novel, The Lowland (2013), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. She continued to focus on the lives of Indian immigrants with her first novel, The Namesake (2003), which was later adapted into a popular film. Sat 06.00 EDT Jhumpa Lahiri ’s third novel is the triumphant culmination of her 20-year love affair with Italian, an obsession that led her to move to Rome with her family almost 10. with her Bengali parents as a young child, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies (1999), her debut short story collection, which sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. ![]() Lahiri, who was born in London and moved to the U.S. What drew me to my craft was the desire to force the two worlds I occupied to mingle on the page as I was not brave enough, or mature enough, to allow in life,” Jhumpa Lahiri wrote in a 2006 Newsweek article. ![]() “When I first started writing I was not conscious that my subject was the Indian-American experience. About the Author Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland and a work of. ![]()
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