Author Jhumpa Lahiri turns down award over museum’s Gaza stance
- 28-Sep-2024
Pulitzer Prize-winning and Indian-origin author Jhumpa Lahiri has declined the 2024 Isamu Noguchi Award that she was offered by the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York, as it fired three employees recently who were wearing kaffiyehs in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The university fired the staff under the pretext of a new policy which […]