Westmont Co-Sponsors Lecture with Author Jhumpa Lahiri

Pulitzer prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri will speak at a public lecture Wednesday, Oct. 13, at 8 p.m. in UCSB's Campbell Hall on the UCSB campus. Westmont is co-sponsoring the UCSB Arts & Lectures series' event.

Lahiri has authored the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories, "Interpreter of Maladies," and the novel-turned-film, "The Namesake." Her writing explores issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants with a compelling, universal fluency that conveys the oldest cultural conflicts in the most immediate fashion. Her most recent book of short stories, "Unaccustomed Earth," received the prestigious Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and was a New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Time magazine Best Book of the Year. She will present selected readings and commentary on her recent work.

General admission tickets are $15, $10 for Westmont students, and can be purchased through the UCSB ticket office at (805) 893-3535 or at the box office on the evening of the event. To receive the discount, students will need to identify themselves as a Westmont student either on the phone or in person, and have their student IDs with them the night of the event to show at the door.

A Westmont shuttle will be available for students attending the event. It will pick up students in front of Kerrwood Hall in the Kerrwood Circle at 7 p.m. that evening and return to campus shortly after the lecture concludes.