The New Yorker: Fiction

Jhumpa Lahiri Reads Primo Levi

Episode Summary

<p><span>Jhumpa Lahiri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Quaestio De Centauris," by Primo Levi,</span><span> </span><span>translated, from the Italian, by Jenny McPhee, which appeared in</span><span> </span><span>a 2015 issue of the magazine. Lahiri is the author of four</span><span> </span><span>books</span><span> </span><span>of fiction,</span><span> </span><span>including the story collection "Interpreter of Maladies," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, and the novel "The Lowland." She is the editor of "The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories," which was published in September.</span></p>

Episode Notes

Jhumpa Lahiri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Quaestio De Centauris," by Primo Levi, translated, from the Italian, by Jenny McPhee, which appeared in a 2015 issue of the magazine. Lahiri is the author of four books of fiction, including the story collection "Interpreter of Maladies," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, and the novel "The Lowland." She is the editor of "The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories," which was published in September.