Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri is an acclaimed American author and translator of Bengali descent. Educated at Barnard College and Boston University, where she earned multiple master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in Renaissance studies, she established herself as a master of contemporary literary prose.

She achieved phenomenal literary fame with her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her subsequent bestselling works include The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and her Italian-language memoir, In Other Words.

Lahiri’s exquisite prose explores themes of immigrant displacement, cultural identity, and quiet emotional dislocation. Currently teaching creative writing at Princeton University, she remains a towering figure in modern literature.