Jhumpa Lahiri
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Jhumpa Lahiri received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies, her debut story collection. She is also the author of The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth and The Lowland, a finalist for both the Man Booker prize and the National Book Award in fiction. She has written three books in Italian, including In altre parole (In Other Words) and the novel Dove mi trovo. Editor of The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, she divides her time between Rome and Princeton. Il quaderno di Nerina ("Nerina's Notebook") will be published in 2021, as will Whereabouts, the English version of Dove mi trovo, translated by the author.
Edited by Ilan Stavans
In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.
World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translation of 2020
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063021
Publication date: Aug 25, 2020