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Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri 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. With a compelling, universal fluency, Lahiri portrays the practical and emotional adversities of her diverse characters in elegant and direct prose. Whether describing hardships of a lonely Indian wife adapting to life in the United States or illuminating the secret pain of a young couple as they discuss their betrayals during a series of electrical blackouts, Lahiri's bittersweet stories avoid sentimentality without abandoning compassion.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake was published in the fall of 2003 to great acclaim. A New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, The Namesake expands on the perplexities of the immigrant experience and the search for identity. A film version of The Namesake (directed by Mira Nair) was released in 2007. Lahiri’s book of short stories, Unaccustom

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Jhumpa Lahiri, for enlarging the human story. In her works of fiction, Dr. Lahiri has illuminated the Indian-American experience in beautifully wrought narratives of estrangement and belonging.

Jhumpa Lahiri was shy as a child. At a young age, she began reading and writing, and a new connection to the world opened up through the words she found and placed on the page. But it wasn’t always so easy, or straightforward. As she got older, she no longer wrote. Out of fear, or out of insecurity. When describing herself as a young adult, she says, “I felt so lost. I was just searching for that thing, that place, that kept me sane and kept me whole.”

How did she start writing again?

“I just had no choice. I was so afraid to open up that box again, and go inside there, and yet I knew that it was the one place where I had to be in order to survive, to live this life. We are animals, and we’re built to survive. And I knew that my survival as a person, as a human being, depended on writing.”

She attended Boston University for her MFA, and then received a seven-mo

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Life’s Work: An Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri

The daughter of a librarian, Lahiri loved reading and writing at an early age. But she made it through college and four graduate programs before compiling the short story collection that became her first publication and, to her surprise, won a Pulitzer. Other stories and novels—most drawing on her experiences as a Bengali American—followed before she moved to Rome and began writing and publishing in Italian and translating between it and English. She teaches at Princeton, and her new book is called Translating Myself and Others.

A version of this article appeared in the May–June 2022 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Alison Beard is an executive editor at Harvard Business Review and co-host of the HBR IdeaCast podcast. She previously worked as a reporter and editor at the Financial Times. A mom of two, she tries—and sometimes succeeds—to apply management best practices to her household.