Jhumpa Lahiri (External Editor)
Jhumpa Lahiri is an award-winning author and translator. She
received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies,
her debut story collection and was awarded a National Humanities
Medal in 2015. Her other works of fiction in English include The
Lowland, which was a finalist for the Man Booker prize.
Lahiri has also written five books directly in Italian, including
In altre parole (translated in English as In Other Words), the
novel Dove mi trovo (translated as Whereabouts) and Racconti
Romani, published in English as Roman Stories. Her translation of
Domenico Starnone's Trick was a Finalist for the National Book
Award and her essay collection Translating Myself and Others was a
finalist for the 2023 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. She divides
her time between Rome and New York, where she is the Millicent C.
McIntosh Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing
Program at Barnard College.
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