Jhumpa Lahiri | Paul Holdengräber
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Jhumpa Lahiri at NYPL, March 3, 2016Jhumpa Lahiri talks about her mother's nostalgia at last night's LIVE from the NYPL event:
Posted by NYPL The New York Public Library on Friday, March 4, 2016
For the season's opening night, LIVE welcomes novelist Jhumpa Lahiri on the occasion of the publication of her new book, In Other Words, which explores her love of the Italian language. Together with Paul Holdengräber, she will discuss what it means to be caught between languages.
JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of four widely acclaimed works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for this book.
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