What is Jhumpa Lahiri?
'''Jhumpa Lahiri''' byname of Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri, (born July 11, 1967, London, England), English-born American novelist and short-story writer. Her works illuminate the immigrant experience, in particular that of East Indians. She is an [[Americans|American]] author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and more recently, in Italian. Her debut collection of short-stories “[[Interpreter of Maladies]]” won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first novel, “The Namesake” was adapted into a popular movie. <!-- Lahiri was born in [[London]], the daughter of Indian immigrants from the Indian state of [[West Bengal]]. Her family moved to the United States when she was three—her father a university librarian and her mother a schoolteacher—who moved to London and then to the [[United States]], settling in [[South Kingstown, Rhode Island|South Kingstown]], Rhode Island, when she was young. Her parents nevertheless remained committed to their East Indian culture and determined to rear their children with experience of and pride in their cultural heritage. Lahiri was encouraged by her grade-school teachers to retain her family nickname, Jhumpa, at school. Although she wrote prolifically during her precollege school years, she did not embrace a writer’s life until after she graduated (1989) with a B.A. in English literature from Barnard College and obtained three master’s degrees (in English, creative writing, and comparative literature and arts) and a doctorate (in [[Renaissance]] studies) from [[Boston University]] in the 1990s. --> {{DEFAULTSORT:Lahiri, Jhumpa}} [[Category:1967 births]] [[Category:21st-century American novelists]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:O. Henry Award winners]] [[Category:Princeton University faculty]] [[Category:Writers from Brooklyn]] [[Category:Writers from Rhode Island]]