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Jhumpa Lahiri

Biography

Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri was
born 1967 in London, England, and raised in Rhode Island. She is a
graduate of Barnard College, where she received a B.A. in English
literature, and of Boston University, where she received an M.A. in
English, an M.A. in creative writing, an M.A. in comparative
studies in literature and the arts, and a Ph.D. in renaissance
studies. She has taught creative writing at Boston University, the
Rhode Island School of Design, and the New School University. Her
debut collection, INTERPRETER OF MALADIES, won the 2000 Pulitzer
Prize for fiction. It was translated into twenty-nine languages and
became a bestseller both in the United States and abroad. It
received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Yorker Debut of the Year
award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison Metcalf
Award, and a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize. Lahiri was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.

Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel, THE NAMESAKE was a major national
bestseller and was named the New York Magazine Book of the
Year. She lives in New York with her husband and
son.