Indian American Author Jhumpa Lahiri urges President Trump to rescind travel ban
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In a letter written Feb. 21, Lahiri and 70 other prominent American authors and artists wrote letters to Trump opposing last months executive order.
Upon barring people from 7 Muslim countries, the ban also disrupted U.S. cultural events and presented international artists with an uncertain future. The letter told Trump that, “Preventing international artists from contributing to American culture life will not make American safe but will damage its international prestige and influence.”
Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian American Author who won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her short story collection, ‘Interpreter of Maladies’. She is a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama and is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.
