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Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and author of two previous books. Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award and The New Yorker Debut of the Year. Her novel The Namesake was a New York Times Notable Book, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. She edited The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Jhumpa Lahiri on Michael F. Moore’s Translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed

“The fruit of the union between an author and a translator is what enables literature to proliferate and seduce readers.”
September 13, 2022  By Jhumpa Lahiri
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Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?

On the Translatability and “Secret Essence” of Calvino’s Language
May 19, 2022  By Jhumpa Lahiri
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Jhumpa Lahiri on the Joy of Translation as Discovery

"I can no longer imagine not working on a translation."
May 1, 2021  By Jhumpa Lahiri
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Jhumpa Lahiri on Editing an Anthology of Italian Fiction

The Editor of The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories on the Need for More Literature in Translation
September 10, 2019  By Jhumpa Lahiri
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Jhumpa Lahiri on the Compulsion to Translate Domenico Starnone

Another Great Neapolitan Novel Comes to America
March 7, 2017  By Jhumpa Lahiri
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