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Jhumpa Lahiri Loses Out On U.S. National Book Award
The nonfiction award was won by George Packer for "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America". The poetry award went to Mary Szybist for "Incarnadine". The young people's literature award was won by Cynthia Kadohata for "The Thing About Luck."
London-born daughter of immigrants from West Bengal, 46-year-old Lahiri, who lives in New York's Brooklyn last month, lost out on the prestigious Man Booker Prize for contemporary fiction writers from the Commonwealth and Ireland.
In a review of her latest novel, the New York Times noted: "Jhumpa Lahiri first made her name with quiet, meticulously observed stories about Indian immigrants trying to adjust to new lives in the United States, stories that had the hushed intimacy of chamber music."
"The premise of her new novel, 'The Lowland,' in contrast, is startlingly operatic," the influential U.S. daily said calling it "certainly Ms. Lahiri's most ambitious undertaking yet", that "eventually opens out into a moving family story".
She is the author of three previous books. Her debut collection of stories, "Interpreter of Maladies", won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Hemingway Award.
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Source: IANS
