Jhumpa Lahiri book on translation to come out in the spring

NEW YORK – The adjacent publication from Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fabrication writer, volition item her enactment arsenic a translator.

Princeton University Press announced Monday that Lahiri's “Translating Myself and Others” volition travel retired adjacent spring. Lahiri has lived disconnected and connected successful Rome for astir a decade, and her translation projects see "The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories” and her caller “Whereabouts,” which she archetypal wrote successful Italian. Her caller publication volition features essays connected the meaning of translation, translating her ain writing, and her imagination of translating a classical from past Rome, Ovid's “Metamorphoses.”

“To beryllium a writer-translator is to worth some being and becoming," Lahiri writes successful her upcoming book. "What 1 writes successful immoderate fixed connection typically remains arsenic is, but translation enables it to go otherwise. Thanks to translation — the enactment of 1 substance becoming different — the speech I person been seeking to person with lit for overmuch of my beingness present feels much complete, much harmonious, and acold richer with possibilities.”

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Lahiri's fabrication includes the Pulitzer-winning communicative postulation “The Interpreter of Maladies” and the novels “The Namesake” and “Unaccustomed Earth.” Since 2019, she has directed Princeton's originative penning program.

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