JHUMPA LAHIRI
Jhumpa Lahiri was born 1967 in London, England, and raised in Rhode
Island. She is a graduate of Barnard College, where she received a
B.A. in English literature, and of Boston University, where she
received an M.A. in English, M.A. in Creative Writing and M.A. in
Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, and a Ph.D. in
Renaissance Studies. She has taught creative writing at Boston
University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her debut
collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for
fiction. It was translated into twenty-nine languages and became a
bestseller both in the United States and abroad. In addition to the
Pulitzer, it received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Yorker Debut
of the Year award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison
Metcalf Award, and a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize. Lahiri was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. The
Namesake is Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel. She lives in New York with
her husband and son.
Jhumpa Lahiri was born 1967 in London, England, and raised in Rhode
Island. She is a graduate of Barnard College, where she received a
B.A. in English literature, and of Boston University, where she
received an M.A. in English, M.A. in Creative Writing and M.A. in
Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, and a Ph.D. in
Renaissance Studies. She has taught creative writing at Boston
University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her debut
collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for
fiction. It was translated into twenty-nine languages and became a
bestseller both in the United States and abroad. In addition to the
Pulitzer, it received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Yorker Debut
of the Year award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison
Metcalf Award, and a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize. Lahiri was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. The
Namesake is Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel. She lives in New York with
her husband and son.