Jhumpa Lahiri

The daughter of Indian immigrants, Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and raised in Long Island. Her debut book, the short story collection Interpreter of Maladies (1999) won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Hemingway Award. Lahiri is the author of three novels in English and Italian: The Namesake (2003), a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; The Lowland (2014), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award; and Dove Mi Trovo (2018). Her other works include the short story collection Unaccustomed Earth (2009); the nonfiction books The Clothing of Books (2016) and In Other Words (2016); and translations of Italian writer Domenico Starnone.

Among Lahiri’s many awards and honors are the National Humanities Medal, an Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012. She teaches creative writing at Princeton University.