Jhumpa Lahiri's transformative journey from Pulitzer-winning author to translator of ancient Latin, exploring the power of language and translation.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri considers Rome, Italy, her home. She wrote her latest short story collection first in Italian. Then, with editor Todd Portnowitz, Lahiri translated her ...

Readers who have missed the compelling narratives that Jhumpa Lahiri wrote in English before her switch to Italian in 2015 will be happy to learn that Roman Stories is a return to form.

Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri, otherwise known as Jhumpa Lahiri, first came to prominence with her award-winning 1999 debut, the short story collection Interpreter of Maladies. Since then, she has ...

Unaccustomed Earth is Jhumpa Lahiri's stunning follow to her 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies and her 2003 novel, The Namesake. This new collection ...

“I see very little when I’m writing,” Jhumpa Lahiri tells me. We’re speaking over Zoom. In her square on the screen it’s 5 p.m., and a warm July light filters into the Rome apartment ...

Like many Indian American fiction writers working in the shadow of Jhumpa Lahiri, I had to learn that my stories could be different — in part because America was different, too. By Vauhini Vara ...

ROMAN STORIES, by Jhumpa Lahiri. Translated by the author with Todd Portnowitz. When Jhumpa Lahiri released her first story collection, “Interpreter of Maladies,” in 1999, it earned her near ...

After World War II, Ireland's Samuel Beckett began writing some works in French and then translating them into English. Swapping his mother tongue for his adopted language allowed him to "write ...

Over 10 years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner and Barnard College English professor and director of creative writing Jhumpa Lahiri began writing in Italian. For her, the rigor of immersion in another ...

After the success of her work in English, author Jhumpa Lahiri, BC ’89, continues to take her writing in a new direction, to a different country, and to a different language. Lahiri, professor of ...

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