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INTERVIEW:Jhumpa Lahiri, winner of this year's Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, talks to The Irish Times Literary Correspondent and member of the judging jury, Eileen Battersby

ALL THE WAY to Cork, as Tyrone and Kerry battled it out, the same nagging doubt kept pulsing in the background, "Jhumpa Lahiri does not enjoy being interviewed".