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Oct 12

In Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri ’89

Event Oval, The Diana Center
  • Add to Calendar 2017-10-12 22:30:00 2017-10-12 22:30:00 In Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri ’89 Jhumpa Lahiri '89 received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies, her debut story collection that explores issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants. Her subsequent fictions—The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland—were published to great acclaim, as was her nonfiction exploration of the often emotionally fraught links between identity and language, In Other Words. Her most recent books are The Clothing of Books and her translation of Domenico Starnone’s novel Lacci (Ties). In 2015, Lahiri was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal by the NEH at the White House. She has also won the PEN/Hemingway Award, an O. Henry Prize, and the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Pre-signed books will be available for sale at the end of the event. There will be no book signing at the event. Seating is also limited and on a first-come basis. Informationbias.barnard.edu   Photo by Liana Miuccio Event Oval, The Diana Center Barnard College barnard-admin@digitalpulp.com America/New_York public
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Jhumpa Lahiri '89 received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies, her debut story collection that explores issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants. Her subsequent fictions—The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland—were published to great acclaim, as was her nonfiction exploration of the often emotionally fraught links between identity and language, In Other Words. Her most recent books are The Clothing of Books and her translation of Domenico Starnone’s novel Lacci (Ties). In 2015, Lahiri was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal by the NEH at the White House. She has also won the PEN/Hemingway Award, an O. Henry Prize, and the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Pre-signed books will be available for sale at the end of the event. There will be no book signing at the event. Seating is also limited and on a first-come basis.

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Photo by Liana Miuccio

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