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Diasporadics & SAJA
present
Saturday, June 19, 1999
Maharaja Restaurant in Manhattan

Marina Budhos
Author of The Professor of Light

Jhumpa Lahiri
Author of Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri (left) and Marina Budhos

Learn more about Diasporadics, a festival of arts and activism, in September 1999

SAJA member Marina Budhos is the author of the recently published novel, The Professor of Light, and the forthcoming nonfiction book, Remix: Conversations with Immigration Teenagers. Her earlier publications include the novel, House of Waiting. She has received awards such as a Rona jaffe Award for Women Writers, The Kenyon Review's Emerging Writer Award, and an Exception Media Merit Award for her journalism, and she has been a Fulbright Scholar in India. More on her in her SAJA Profile and at the Who's Who Among South Asian Women.

Jhumpa Lahiri's debut book, Interpreter of Maladies, is a collection of short stories, three of which The New Yorker has published. She was recently named by the magazine as "one of the 20 best writers under the age of 40." Her title story has been selected for the O. Henry Award and The Best American Short Stories. She was a recipient of Tranatlantic Review Award from Henfield Foundation and fiction prize from the Louisville Review, and was fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. More on her at the Who's Who Among South Asian Women.