Jhumpa Lahiri appointed to Obama arts committee

“I look forward to working with them in the weeks and months ahead,” the President said.

Besides Lahiri,other appointed to the committee are Chuck Close,Fred Goldring,Sheila Johnson,Pamela Joyner and Ken Solomon,the White House said.

A fiction writer,Lahiri’s debut collection of stories,Interpreter of Maladies,received the Pulitzer Prize,the PEN/Hemingway Award,the Addison M Metcalf Award and the New Yorker magazine’s Debut of the Year.