![]() President Obama appointed her as a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities in 2010. She has been a finalist for both the Booker Prize and the National Book Award. She received the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Hemingway Award for her first book, Interpreter of Maladies, at the age of 32. She has published two novels and two collections of short stories in English, and her fifth and most recent book is a collection of essays she wrote in Italian while living in Rome, titled In Altre Parole (In Other Words). ![]() Through “wonderful teachers” and the encouragement of peers, her confidence grew again. ![]() She attended Boston University for her MFA, and then received a seven-month fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown. And I knew that my survival as a person, as a human being, depended on writing.” We are animals, and we’re built to survive. 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. I was just searching for that thing, that place, that kept me sane and kept me whole.” When describing herself as a young adult, she says, “I felt so lost. But it wasn’t always so easy, or straightforward. 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. ![]() ![]() Lahiri has illuminated the Indian-American experience in beautifully wrought narratives of estrangement and belonging. Jhumpa Lahiri, for enlarging the human story. ![]()
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