Background
Jhumpa Lahiri was born on July 11, 1967, in London, England. She is the daughter of parents who emigrated from India. She was then raised in Rhode Island where her father worked as a librarian and her mother as a teacher.
2015
US President Barack Obama has presented the prestigious National Humanities Medal to Pulitzer Prize winner, Jhumpa Lahiri, in recognition of her "beautifully wrought narratives of estrangement and belonging" which highlight the "Indian-American experience".
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
Lahiri received a B.A. in English Literature at Barnard College.
Boston, MA 02215, United States
Lahiri received her Master of Arts in English, Creative writing, and Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, as well as a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies from Boston University.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
Lahiri with her husband Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush and their child
Lahiri with her husband Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush at the 71st Venice Film Festival
(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning d...)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerring charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. In stories that travel from India to America and back again, Lahiri speaks with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner.
https://www.amazon.com/Interpreter-Maladies-Jhumpa-Lahiri/dp/039592720X/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her...)
In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail - the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase - that opens whole worlds of emotion.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003KGAUUQ/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhu...)
These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. Rich with the signature gifts that have established Jhumpa Lahiri as one of our most essential writers, Unaccustomed Earth exquisitely renders the most intricate workings of the heart and mind.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0011UGLK6/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(This book is made up of twenty-three stories, each from a...)
This book is made up of twenty-three stories, each from a different author from across the globe. All belong to one world, united in their diversity and ethnicity. And together they have one aim: to involve and move the reader.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007A2VXKC/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(The Lowland is a work of great beauty and complex emotion...)
The Lowland is a work of great beauty and complex emotion; an engrossing family saga and a story steeped in history that spans generations and geographies with seamless authenticity. It is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C4BA49A/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who...)
Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the shores of Central Square. Soon he was one of the family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, a staggeringly beautiful and precise story about a Bengali family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the impossibilities of love, and the unanticipated pleasures and complications of life in America.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VD03ZVW/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love sto...)
In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XG9BT48/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winnin...)
In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HWKSEQC/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(This landmark collection brings together forty writers th...)
This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HFLFJL4/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Jhumpa Lahiri was born on July 11, 1967, in London, England. She is the daughter of parents who emigrated from India. She was then raised in Rhode Island where her father worked as a librarian and her mother as a teacher.
Lahiri received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at Barnard College, and later received her Master of Arts in English, Creative writing, and Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, as well as a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies from Boston University.
While in graduate school and shortly thereafter, Lahiri published a number of short stories in such magazines as The New Yorker, Harvard Review, and Story Quarterly. She collected some of those stories in her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999). The nine stories, some set in Calcutta and others on the U.S. East Coast, examine such subjects as the practice of arranged marriage, alienation, dislocation, and loss of culture and provide insight into the experiences of Indian immigrants as well as the lives of Calcuttans.
Lahiri next tried her hand at a novel, producing The Namesake (2003; film 2006), a story that examines themes of personal identity and the conflicts produced by immigration by following the internal dynamics of a Bengali family in the United States. She returned to short fiction in Unaccustomed Earth (2008), a collection that likewise takes as its subject the experience of immigration as well as that of assimilation into American culture. Her novel The Lowland (2013) chronicles the divergent paths of two Bengali brothers.
In 2015, she published her first book written in Italian, In altre parole (In Other Words), a meditation on her immersion in another culture and language. Lahiri continued writing in Italian, and in 2018 she released the novel Dove mi trovo (“Where I Find Myself”).
(In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her...)
2004(This landmark collection brings together forty writers th...)
2019(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning d...)
1999(These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhu...)
2008(The Lowland is a work of great beauty and complex emotion...)
2013(In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winnin...)
2016(Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who...)
2015(This book is made up of twenty-three stories, each from a...)
2009(In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love sto...)
2016On January 15, 2001, Lahiri married Alberto Vourvoulias, a journalist. They have two children, Octavio and Noor.