Jhumpa Lahiri

Born 1967

From London, England, United Kingdom · Nationality: India, United States, United Kingdom · Writes fiction

Quotes

“Books come to stand for various episodes in our lives, for certain idealisms, follies of belief, moments of love. Along the way they accumulate our marks, our stains, our innocent abuses—they come to wear our experience of them on their covers and bindings like wrinkles on our skin.”
The Clothing of Books 2016
“Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.”
quoted in Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers by Phaidon 20
“Art is nothing other than the freedom to express oneself in any language, in whatever manner, dressed any which way.”
The Clothing of Books 2016

Books by Jhumpa Lahiri in order

Books by Jhumpa Lahiri in the order they were published, from Interpreter of Maladies (1999) to Bone into Stone (2024).

Authors readers of Jhumpa Lahiri often like, from our AI-written notes

Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAlso writes about migration, cultural identity and the lives of people who move between countries.
Bharati MukherjeeAnother writer of South Asian diaspora fiction in the United States, concerned with immigrant identity.
Anita DesaiWrites about Indian family life and the emotional lives of women with restraint and precision.
Alice MunroShares Lahiri's focus on the short story as a form for quiet, precise portraits of ordinary lives.
Amy TanWrites about mothers and daughters across cultures, a theme that overlaps with The Namesake.
Elena FerranteA writer of Italian fiction whose work attracts readers interested in Lahiri's Italian-language period and in the place of Italy in contemporary literature.