Jhumpa Lahiri Website<\/a><\/p>\nNilanjana Sudeshna “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.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
In 2001, she married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who was then Deputy Editor of TIME Latin America Lahiri currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. She has been a Vice President of the PEN American Center since 2005.<\/p>\n
Lahiri taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Much of her short fiction concerns the lives of Indian-Americans, particularly Bengalis.<\/p>\n
She received the following awards, among others:
1999 – PEN\/Hemingway Award (Best Fiction Debut of the Year) for Interpreter of Maladies;
2000 – The New Yorker’s Best Debut of the Year for Interpreter of Maladies;
2000 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut Interpreter of Maladies<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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