Jhumpa Lahiri | The New York Review of Books

Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999). She is the author, also, of a further story collection, Unaccustomed Earth (2008), as well as the novels The Namesake (2003) and The Lowland (2013). She lives in Rome, and in 2018 published her first novel in Italian, Dove mi trovo. (April 2019)

Igiaba Scego’s ‘Beyond Babylon’

Language is freedom, but language is also a system, a form of authority that can also oppress. The epilogue to Beyond Babylon is an eloquent and rousing manifesto for anyone who has lived among and between languages, and who therefore cannot claim to have an unadulterated or exclusive relationship with any one tongue.

April 12, 2019