Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri was born on July 11,1967 and is an American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English; and more recently, in Italian.
22 Facts About Jhumpa Lahiri
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On January 22,2015, Lahiri won the US$50,000 DSC Prize for Literature for The Lowland In these works, Lahiri explored the Indian-immigrant experience in America.
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In 2011, Jhumpa Lahiri moved to Rome, Italy and has since then published two books of essays, and in 2018, published her first novel in Italian called Dove mi trovo and compiled, edited and translated the Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories which consists of 40 Italian short stories written by 40 different Italian writers.
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Jhumpa Lahiri has translated some of her own writings and those of other authors from Italian into English.
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Jhumpa Lahiri was a professor of creative writing at Princeton University from 2015 to 2022.
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Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London, the daughter of Indian immigrants from the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Jhumpa Lahiri's mother wanted her children to grow up knowing their Bengali heritage, and her family often visited relatives in Calcutta.
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Jhumpa Lahiri's dissertation, completed in 1997, was titled "Accursed Palace: The Italian palazzo on the Jacobean stage ".
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Jhumpa Lahiri took a fellowship at Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center, which lasted for the next two years.
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Jhumpa Lahiri has taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design.
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In 2001, Jhumpa Lahiri married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who was then deputy editor of TIME Latin America, and who is senior editor of TIME Latin America.
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On July 1,2015, Jhumpa Lahiri joined the Princeton University faculty as a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts.
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Jhumpa Lahiri has had a relationship with The New Yorker magazine, in which she has published short stories and non-fiction.
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Since 2005, Jhumpa Lahiri has been a vice president of the PEN American Center, an organization designed to promote friendship and intellectual cooperation among writers.
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In December 2015, Jhumpa Lahiri published a non-fiction essay called "Teach Yourself Italian" in The New Yorker about her experience learning Italian.
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Jhumpa Lahiri was the winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015 for her book The Lowland at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival for which she entered Limca Book of Records.
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In 2018, Jhumpa Lahiri published her first novel in Italian, Dove mi trovo.
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Jhumpa Lahiri's writing is characterized by her "plain" language and her characters, often Indian immigrants to America who must navigate between the cultural values of their homeland and their adopted home.
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Jhumpa Lahiri's fiction is autobiographical and frequently draws upon her own experiences as well as those of her parents, friends, acquaintances, and others in the Bengali communities with which she is familiar.
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Jhumpa Lahiri's stories describe their efforts to keep their children acquainted with Indian culture and traditions and to keep them close even after they have grown up in order to hang onto the Indian tradition of a joint family, in which the parents, their children and the children's families live under the same roof.
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Unaccustomed Earth departs from this earlier original ethos, as Jhumpa Lahiri's characters embark on new stages of development.
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Jhumpa Lahiri worked on the third season of the HBO television program In Treatment.