Jhumpa Lahiri won the 2008 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2008 for her collection Unaccustomed Earth. The annual award, worth €35,000, is the world’s richest short story prize. Lahiri’s debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her characters tend to be immigrants from India and their American-reared children, exiles who straddle two countries, two cultures, and belong to neither
Friday, 26 September 2008
Frank O’Connor Prize
Jhumpa Lahiri won the 2008 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2008 for her collection Unaccustomed Earth. The annual award, worth €35,000, is the world’s richest short story prize. Lahiri’s debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her characters tend to be immigrants from India and their American-reared children, exiles who straddle two countries, two cultures, and belong to neither
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