
生年: July 11, 1967 – London, England, United Kingdom
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.
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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— Amy Tan
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— Vanity Fair
"Jhumpa Lahiri's excellent first novel is the work of a fine writer, discriminating, compassionate and surprising"
— Evening Standard
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— Salman Rushdie
"Jhumpa Lahiri is one of the most intellectually elegant novelists in the world"
— The Washington Post
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— The Guardian
"Jhumpa Lahiri is a writer of uncommon elegance and poise"
— The New York Times
"Jhumpa Lahiri is an unillusioned anatomist of the greatest immigrant success story in the United States"
— Slate
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