Jhumpa Lahiri

Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri, joins us to discuss editing "The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories."

Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri discusses her translation of "Ties," a new novel by bestselling Italian novelist and screenwriter Domenico Starnone.

Letters provide key turning points in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel, The Namesake. Growing up in New England, the author remembers how letters served as a lifeline to her family back in Calcutta. Writing letters was an important ritual – and receiving them was always an ...

Kurt Andersen talks with Jhumpa Lahiri about the artistry of letters and her most recent novel, The Namesake, in which a crucial letter never arrives.

Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of The Namesake. Her debut story collection Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in ...

Kurt Andersen talks with Jhumpa Lahiri about the artistry of letters and her latest novel, The Namesake, in which a crucial letter never arrives.

Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000. It was translated into twenty-nine languages and became a bestseller both ...