![]() What strikes you is the overwhelming simplicity that piques you. These lines are devoid of frills or flowery sentences. These are the opening lines of her novel The Namesake. “On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in a bowl.” (The Namesake) What can fellow writers learn from her writing? What themes or stylistics devices can aspiring writers imbue in their writing? Simplicity Henry Award for “Interpreter of Maladies” (1999), the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best Fiction Debut of the Year for the Interpreter of Maladies collection, and most recently the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award (2008) and the Asian American Literacy Award (2009), both for Unaccustomed Earth. She is the proud recipient of many awards, including the TransAtlantic Award from the Henfield Foundation (1993), the O. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jhumpa Lahiri has many feathers in her cap. ![]()
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