Jhumpa Lahiri

生年: July 11, 1967 – London, England, United Kingdom

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Jhumpa Lahiri is an author known for fiction and essays exploring immigration, identity, language, and family in the Indian diaspora. Her notable books include Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland. She won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has been widely translated and internationally taught.

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Jhumpa Lahiri, born Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri in London on July 11, 1967, grew up in the United States after her Bengali parents moved the family to South Kingstown, Rhode Island, when she was very young. Her father worked as a librarian and her mother as a schoolteacher, and the household preserved Bengali language and custom while also exposing her to the dislocations of immigrant life. That tension between inheritance and adaptation became central to her fiction. She wrote from childhood, but her commitment to writing sharpened after Barnard College, where she earned a B.A. in English in 1989, and then at Boston University, where she completed three master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jhumpa-Lahiri))

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Identity is a completely fluid thing, and metamorphosis has this concept in it
-What Am I Trying to Leave Behind?
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To translate, too, is a kind of metamorphosis
-What Am I Trying to Leave Behind?
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I feel exposed, vulnerable, as it should be
-What Am I Trying to Leave Behind?
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Everything I write is a journey, metaphorically speaking
-Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri
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I think that if a person doesn’t feel fully at home somewhere, then one feels foreign, regardless of literal ties to another place
-Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri
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If it weren’t for the example of other writers I would never have written a word
-Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri
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I still don't understand how I write a story or a book
-Jhumpa Lahiri at Work
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And in that sense, I think we're less divided than we think we are
-Jhumpa Lahiri at Work
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It’s only in Italian that I feel I’m at the center of myself
-The Art of Fiction No. 262
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No. The goal isn’t to be happy with my voice. What I want is simply to have one
-The Art of Fiction No. 262

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"Jhumpa Lahiri's excellent first novel is the work of a fine writer, discriminating, compassionate and surprising"

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"Jhumpa Lahiri is an unillusioned anatomist of the greatest immigrant success story in the United States"

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