Her debut collection of short-stories "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first novel, "The Namesake" (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. Her second story collection "Unaccustomed Earth" (2008) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, while her second novel, "The Lowland" (2013), was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. In these works, Lahiri explored the Indian-immigrant experience in America. In 2011, Lahiri moved to Rome, Italy and has since then published two books of essays, and in 2018, published her first novel in Italian called "Dove mi trovo" and also compiled, edited and translated the "Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories" which consists of 40 Italian short stories written by 40 different Italian writers. She has also translated some of her own writings and those of other authors from Italian into English.