Jhumpa Lahiri







Jhumpa Lahiri

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born
July 11, 1967

gender
female

place of birth
London, England, The United Kingdom

genre
Literature & Fiction


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Jhumpa Lahiri was born in July 1967, 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 E...more




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The Namesake The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Interpreter of Maladies Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
avg rating 4.11 — 19,828 ratings — published 1999
33 editions
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Unaccustomed Earth Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
avg rating 4.16 — 8,419 ratings — published 2007
17 editions
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State by State: A Panoramic Po... State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
by Matt Weiland (Editor), Sean Wilsey (Editor) Myla Goldberg (Contributor)
avg rating 3.80 — 241 ratings — published 2008
2 editions
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خوبی خدا خوبی خدا
by جومپا لاهيري و ..../ترجمه امیرمهدی حقیقت
avg rating 3.65 — 203 ratings — published 2005
5 editions
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The Namesake: A Portrait of th... The Namesake: A Portrait of the Film Based on the Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)/ NOT THE NOVEL
by Jhumpa Lahiri, Mira Nair
avg rating 3.94 — 79 ratings — published 2006
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One World: A Global Anthology... One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lahiri
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2009
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Social Psychology Seventh Edit... Social Psychology Seventh Edition / The Namesake
by Saul Kassin, Jhumpa Lahiri
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2008
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Unaccustomed Earth Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
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見知らぬ場所 見知らぬ場所
by ジュンパ ラヒリ, Jhumpa Lahiri (原著) 小川 高義 (翻訳)
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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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"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."
Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake)
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