Jhumpa Lahiri
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Jhumpa Lahiri(b.1967) is a contemporary American author of Bengali descent. Her given name is Nilanjana Sudeshna. An anecdote published in USA Today mentions a schoolteacher found this name too long and used her nickname Jhumpa instead. Ms. Lahiri adapted this incident in her book The Namesake.
Ms. Lahiri attended Barnard College, graduating in 1989 with a major in English Literature. She was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut collection of nine short stories, Interpreter of Maladies. Much of her short fiction concerns the lives of Indian-Americans and the nuances of their lives. Her second book and first novel, The Namesake, was published in 2003.
Currently, Ms. Lahiri lives and works in Brooklyn, New York with her Guatemalan-American husband and their son Octavio.
External links
- April 11, 2000 Barnard Campus News (http://www.barnard.edu/newnews/news41100a.htm)
- April 12, 2000 PBS NewsHour (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/gergen/jan-june00/lahiri_4-12.html) Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth
- South Asian Women's NETwork Bookshelf (http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/books/jhumpa_lahiri.html), University of Maryland
- Voices from the Gaps (http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/authors/LAHIRIjhumpa.htm), University of Minnesota