1. Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri was born on July 11,1967 and is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian.
25 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.
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In 2012, Jhumpa Lahiri moved to Rome and has since then published two books of essays, and began writing in Italian, first with the 2018 novel Dove mi trovo, then with her 2023 collection Roman Stories.
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Jhumpa Lahiri 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 its senior editor.
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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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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 in 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 later translated Dove mi trovo into English; the translation, Whereabouts, was published in 2021.
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In 2022, Jhumpa Lahiri published a new short story collection under the title Racconti Romani, the title being a nod to a book by Alberto Moravia of the same name.
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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.
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In September 2024, Jhumpa Lahiri withdrew her acceptance of the Isamu Noguchi Award given by the Noguchi Museum in New York City in protest over the museum's decision to fire three employees for wearing keffiyehs in solidarity with Palestine.
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In October 2024, Jhumpa Lahiri signed an open letter alongside several thousand authors pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions.