Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri in 2015
Ọjọ́ ìbí	Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri 11 Oṣù Keje 1967 (1967-07-11) (ọmọ ọdún 57) London, England
Iṣẹ́	Author
Ọmọ orílẹ̀-èdè	American
Alma mater	Barnard College (BA) Boston University (double MA, MFA, PhD)
Ìgbà	21st century
Genre	Novel, short story, postcolonial
Notable works	Interpreter of Maladies (1999) The Namesake (2003) Unaccustomed Earth (2008) The Lowland (2013)
Notable awards	1999 O. Henry Award 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2021 Dottorato Ad Honorem, University of Bologna
Website
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Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri^[1] (tí wọ́n bí ní July 11, 1967) jẹ́ òǹkọ̀wé ti Indian àti American, tí ó gbajúmọ̀ fún àwọn ìtàn kékeré rẹ̀, ìwé ìtàn-àròsọ àti àròkọ rẹ̀ ní èdè Gẹ̀ẹ́sì àti ní èdè Italy.

À̀tòjọ ìtàn kékeré rẹ̀ ni Interpreter of Maladies (1999) tó gba ẹ̀bùn Pulitzer Prize for Fiction àti ẹ̀bùn PEN/Hemingway Award, ìwé ìtàn-àròsọ rẹ̀, The Namesake (2003), ni ó fàyọ nínú fíìmù àgbéléwò The Namesake.

Wọ́n bí Lahiri sí ìlú London, ó sì jẹ́ ọmọbìnrin ti àwọn ará India tó sí lọ sí West Bengal. Ìdílé rẹ̀ kó lọ sí United States nígbà tó wà ní ọmọ-ọdún mẹ́ra; Lahiri máa ń rí ara rẹ̀ bí i ará America, ó sì máa ń sọ pé, "Wọn ò bí mi síbi àmọ́ ó ṣe é ṣe kó jẹ́ bẹ́ẹ̀."^[2] Lahiri dàgbà sí Kingston, ní Rhode Island, níbi tí bàbá rẹ̀, ìyẹn Amar Lahiri ti ń ṣiṣẹ́ gẹ́gẹ́ bí i librarian ní University of Rhode Island;^[2] ìwé "The Third and Final Continent", ìtàn tó parí Interpreter of Maladies, jẹ́ èyí tó kọ nípa bàbá rẹ̀.^[3] Ìyá Lahiri fẹ́ kí àwọn ọmọ òun dàgbà sí mímọ àṣà Bengali, àwọn mọ̀lẹ́bí rẹ̀ sì máa ń wá wò wọ́n dáadáa ní Calcutta.^[4]

• 1993 – TransAtlantic Award from the Henfield Foundation
• 1999 – O. Henry Award for short story "Interpreter of Maladies"
• 1999 – PEN/Hemingway Award (Best Fiction Debut of the Year) for "Interpreter of Maladies"
• 1999 – "Interpreter of Maladies" selected as one of Best American Short Stories
• 2000 – Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2000 – "The Third and Final Continent" selected as one of Best American Short Stories
• 2000 – The New Yorker Best Debut of the Year for "Interpreter of Maladies"
• 2000 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut "Interpreter of Maladies"
• 2000 – James Beard Foundation's M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for "Indian Takeout" in Food & Wine Magazine
• 2002 – Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2002 – "Nobody's Business" selected as one of Best American Short Stories
• 2008 – Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for "Unaccustomed Earth"
• 2009 – Asian American Literary Award for "Unaccustomed Earth"
• 2009 – Premio Gregor von Rezzori for foreign fiction translated into Italian for "Unaccustomed Earth" ("Una nuova terra"), translated by Federica Oddera (Guanda)
• 2014 – DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for The Lowland^[5]
• 2014 – National Humanities Medal^[6]
• 2017 – Pen/Malamud Award
• 2023 – Honorary Doctorate from The American University of Rome in recognition of her extraordinary contribution to literature in English and Italian.^[7]

• The Namesake. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2003. ^[8]
• The Lowland (2013)
• (in it) Dove mi trovo. Milan: Guanda. 2018. ISBN 978-88-235-2136-0. 
  • Whereabouts. New York: Knopf. 2021. ISBN 978-0-593-31831-7. ^[9]

• Interpreter of Maladies (1999)
  • "A Temporary Matter" (previously published in The New Yorker)
  • "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine" (previously published in The Louisville Review)
  • "Interpreter of Maladies" (previously published in the Agni Review)
  • "A Real Durwan" (previously published in the Harvard Review)
  • "Sexy" (previously published in The New Yorker)
  • "Mrs. Sen's" (previously published in Salamander)
  • "This Blessed House" (previously published in Epoch)
  • "The Treatment of Bibi Haldar" (previously published in Story Quarterly)
  • "The Third and Final Continent"
• Unaccustomed Earth (2008)
  • "Unaccustomed Earth"
  • "Hell-Heaven" (previously published in The New Yorker)
  • "A Choice of Accommodations"
  • "Only Goodness"
  • "Nobody's Business" (previously published in The New Yorker)
  • "Once In A Lifetime" (previously published in The New Yorker)
  • "Year's End" (previously published in The New Yorker)
  • "Going Ashore"
  • "Hema and Kaushik"
• Racconti romani (in Italian). Rome: Guanda. 2022.
  • "Il confine" (The Boundary)
  • "La riunione" (The Reunion)
  • "Le feste di P." (P.s Parties)
  • "Casa luminosa" (Luminous House)
  • "La scalinata" (The Stairway)
  • "Il ritiro" (Withdrawal)
  • "La processione" (The Procession)
  • I bigliettini (The Cards)
  • Dante Alighieri

• Lahiri, Jhumpa (June 10–17, 2013). "Brotherly Love". The New Yorker 89 (17): 70–89. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/10/brotherly-love-2. 
• Lahiri, Jhumpa (January-29-2018). "The Boundary" . The New Yorker.
• Lahiri, Jhumpa (February-8-2021). "Casting Shadows" . The New Yorker.

• Il quaderno di Nerina (Italian) (2020)

• In altre parole (Italian) (2015) (English translation published as In Other Words, 2016)
• Il vestito dei libri (Italian) (English translation published as The Clothing of Books, 2016)
• Translating Myself and Others (2022)

• The Magic Barrel: Stories (introduction) by Bernard Malamud, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, July 2003.
• "Cooking Lessons: The Long Way Home" (September 6, 2004, The New Yorker)
• Malgudi Days (introduction) by R.K. Narayan, Penguin Classics, August 2006.
• "Rhode Island" in State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey, Ecco, September 16, 2008
• "Improvisations: Rice" (November 23, 2009, The New Yorker)
• "Reflections: Notes from a Literary Apprenticeship" (June 13, 2011, The New Yorker)
• The Suspension of Time: Reflections on Simon Dinnerstein and The Fulbright Triptych edited by Daniel Slager, Milkweed Editions, June 14, 2011.
• Lahiri, Jhumpa (December 7, 2015). Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. "Teach yourself Italian". The New Yorker 91 (39): 30–36. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/07/teach-yourself-italian. ^[10]