In 2020, Jhumpa Lahiri's debut short story collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Lahiri has gone on to write other critically acclaimed books, including The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama and was named Commendatore of the Italian Republic by President Sergio Mattarella. Her collection Roman Stories centers around Rome, not as a setting, but as a protagonist. Translated from Italian, the stories capture Rome as both a metropolis and a monument, multi-faceted and metaphysical, suspended between past and future - and prove that Lahiri is now master of form in her adopted language.
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In 2020, Jhumpa Lahiri's debut short story collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Lahiri has gone on to write other critically acclaimed books, including The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama and was named Commendatore of the Italian Republic by President Sergio Mattarella. Her collection Roman Stories centers around Rome, not as a setting, but as a protagonist. Translated from Italian, the stories capture Rome as both a metropolis and a monument, multi-faceted and metaphysical, suspended between past and future - and prove that Lahiri is now master of form in her adopted language.
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