Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967), author
Cressida Leyshon (b. 1969), editor
Proof for “Year’s End,” November 2, 2007
Jhumpa Lahiri Papers, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Jhumpa Lahiri
In 1999, the writer Jhumpa Lahiri shook the literary world with her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, which explored the complex experiences of first-generation Indian-Americans. Ahead of the publication of Unaccustomed Earth, Lahiri’s second collection, The New Yorker published four of its eight stories. “Once in a Lifetime” and “Year’s End” both center on Hema and Kaushik, two Bengali-Americans whose separate lives intertwine. Lahiri began drafting another collection of essays, Roman Stories, in Italian after moving to Rome in 2012. “P’s Parties” was translated into English for the 2023 special fiction issue of The New Yorker, which featured The New York Public Library on its cover. Reflecting on the experience, she mused: “The New Yorker’s English constitutes its own language, in a way.”
Learn more about Jhumpa Lahiri’s relationship with The New Yorker from the writer herself in the audio guide.
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