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“It’s very disconcerting to translate oneself, but it’s a kind of pure contact with the work you make.” In this event welcoming Jhumpa Lahiri as the new Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author reads from her new collection, Roman Stories (Knopf, 2023), translated from the Italian by the author and Todd Portnowitz, and joins Brandon Taylor for a conversation about her work.
Tags: Fiction | Translation | Jhumpa Lahiri | Barnard College | Roman Stories | Knopf | Italian | 2023 | Ken Chen | Brandon Taylor | reading | interview | conversation
