The New Yorker Festival: Jhumpa Lahiri Talks with Judith Thurman

Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of several books, including “The Interpreter of Maladies,” which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000, and “The Lowland,” which was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award in 2013. In February of this year, she published her first work of nonfiction, “In Other Words,” a memoir about learning Italian. Excerpts from five of her books were published in The New Yorker. Lahiri also teaches creative writing at Princeton University.

Judith Thurman has been writing about books, culture, and fashion for The New Yorker since 1987, and became a staff writer in 2000. She is the author of “Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller,” which won the 1983 National Book Award for nonfiction, and “Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette,” which won the Salon Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography. A collection of her New Yorker essays, “Cleopatra’s Nose,” was published in 2007.

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