Jhumpa Lahiri received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies, her debut story collection exploring issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants. Her novel, The Namesake, expanding on the perplexities of the immigrant experience and the search for identity was published in 2003 to great acclaim. A film version (directed by Mira Nair) was released in 2007. Her book of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, received the 2008 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She contributed the essay on Rhode Island in the 2008 book State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America. Her novel, The Lowland, won the DSC Award for South Asian fiction and was a finalist for both the Man Booker prize and the National Book Award. Her first book in Italian, In Altre Parole, later published in English as In Other Words, explores the often emotionally fraught links between identity and language. Her nonfiction includes The Clothing of Books (Il vestito dei libri) and Translating Myself and Others. Her first full-length self-translation is the novel, Whereabouts (Dove Mi Trovo). Her book of poetry is Il quaderno di Nerina. Her most recent novel is Roman Stories (Racconti Romani). Translated into English by Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz, the book was a New Yorker 2023 Best Book of the Year. She has received several prestigious awards including the National Humanities Medal, the PEN/Hemingway Award, an O Henry Prize, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Vallombrosa Von Rezzori Prize, the Asian American Literary Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2006. She was named Commander of the Italian Republic in 2019 by President Sergio Mattarella.
