Jhumpa Lahiri

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in London (England), The United Kingdom

July 11, 1967

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Literature & Fiction

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Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Brought up in America by a mother who wanted to raise her children to be Indian, she learned about her Bengali heritage from an early age.

Lahiri graduated from South Kingstown High School and later received her B.A. in English literature from Barnard College in 1989. She then received multiple degrees from Boston University: an M.A. in English, an M.A. in Creative Writing, an M.A. in Comparative Literature and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. She took up a fellowship at Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center, which lasted for the next two years (1997-1998).

In 2001, she married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who was then Deputy Editor of TIME Latin Americ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 233,399 ratings · 17,809 reviews · 36 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Namesake 3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 109,269 ratings — published 2003 — 57 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interpreter of Maladies 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 70,155 ratings — published 1999 — 54 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unaccustomed Earth 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 40,754 ratings — published 2008 — 42 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interpreter of Maladies / The Namesake 4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 1,464 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Namesake: A Portrait of the Film Based on the Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks) by Jhumpa Lahiri (Director), Mira Nair 3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hell-Heaven 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 40 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Shorts: New American Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, Sherman Alexie, Chimamand Ngozi Adichie 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lowland 4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 33 ratings — expected publication 2013 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Blessed House 4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Solo bontà by Jhumpa Lahiri, Federica Oddera (Translator) 3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

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“They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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