The Life and Motivation of Jhumpa Lahiri (Research Paper))
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Professor Brunn
English 201-141
12 July 2011
The Life and Motivation of Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri was born on 1967 in London, UK. Her parents were Indian-Bengalis. Lahiri grew up in Rhode Island, USA and she considers herself to be an American. Lahiri is a very educated woman with multiple degrees in English, including a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. She did a two-year fellowship at Provincetown 's Fine Arts Work Center. Lahiri lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who used to be a Deputy Editor of a Latin American magazine called Time and who now is an Executive Editor for El Diario/La Prensa, New York’s largest Spanish newspaper. Lahiri and Vourvoulias-Bush have two children, Octavio and Noor (Wcislo, Katherine).
Jhumpa Lahiri has written a novel, The Namesake, after her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. She has also written her second collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, which debuted in the Number one slot in The New York Times best seller list. Lahiri’s story, “Trading Stories,” also have been published by The New Yorker magazine. Lahiri has been a Vice President of the PEN American Center, an organization designed to promote friendship and intellectual cooperation among writers, she has been the Vice President since 2005. In
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2010, Lahiri was appointed a member of President Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, along with five others. Lahiri has been influenced by her own lifestyle, being raised by immigrant parents; people around her and by other authors whose books she has read throughout her life. Each influence has been portrayed in one way or another throughout her works.
Jhumpa Lahiri grew up in a household were books were commonly found but in no interest to her. As she says “my house was not devoid of things to read, but the offerings felt scant, and were of
Professor Brunn
English 201-141
12 July 2011
The Life and Motivation of Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri was born on 1967 in London, UK. Her parents were Indian-Bengalis. Lahiri grew up in Rhode Island, USA and she considers herself to be an American. Lahiri is a very educated woman with multiple degrees in English, including a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. She did a two-year fellowship at Provincetown 's Fine Arts Work Center. Lahiri lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who used to be a Deputy Editor of a Latin American magazine called Time and who now is an Executive Editor for El Diario/La Prensa, New York’s largest Spanish newspaper. Lahiri and Vourvoulias-Bush have two children, Octavio and Noor (Wcislo, Katherine).
Jhumpa Lahiri has written a novel, The Namesake, after her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. She has also written her second collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, which debuted in the Number one slot in The New York Times best seller list. Lahiri’s story, “Trading Stories,” also have been published by The New Yorker magazine. Lahiri has been a Vice President of the PEN American Center, an organization designed to promote friendship and intellectual cooperation among writers, she has been the Vice President since 2005. In
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2010, Lahiri was appointed a member of President Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, along with five others. Lahiri has been influenced by her own lifestyle, being raised by immigrant parents; people around her and by other authors whose books she has read throughout her life. Each influence has been portrayed in one way or another throughout her works.
Jhumpa Lahiri grew up in a household were books were commonly found but in no interest to her. As she says “my house was not devoid of things to read, but the offerings felt scant, and were of
Bibliography: Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.