Jhumpa Lahiri and Chimamanda Adichie are two of the best and best-known contemporary writers of fiction describing the lives and experiences of those that migrate, and those that remain behind. Pulitzer Prize-winning Jhumpa Lahiri is celebrated for her depiction of immigrant and Indian-American life, and she writes about the universal themes of longing, loneliness and barriers of communication. Chimamanda Adichie is Nigerian and was educated both in Nigeria and the US. She writes about maintaining a cultural identity as an immigrant in a new place, and the clash of traditional practices with modern ideas.