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Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in 1967 in London, and grew up in Rhode Island. She has travelled several times to India, where both her parents were born and raised. She graduated with a B.A. in English literature from Barnard College. As a child she wrote extensive 'novels' in notebooks, sometimes in collaboration with friends. She wrote for her school newspaper, but had stopped writing fiction by the time she went to college. She applied to various graduate English programs but was rejected from all of them. While waiting to apply again, she took a job as a research assistant at a non-profit institution in Cambridge.
Eventually, Lahiri did enter Boston University, and received an M.A. in English, an M.A. in Creative Writing, and an M.A. in Comparative Literature and the Arts, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. She currently lives in New York City.
Three of Jhumpa Lahiri's short stories have appeared in The New Yorker in 1998. Her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, came out in early 1999, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Works
- Interpreter of Maladies
- The Namesake
Essays & Articles
Bess, Jennifer. "Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies". Explicator, 2004 Winter; 62(2): 125-28
Caesar, Judith. "Beyond Cultural Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's 'When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine' ". North Dakota Quarterly, 2003 Winter; 70(1): 82-91.
Chakraborti, Basudeb and Chakraborti, Agana. "Context: A comparative study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s a Temporary Matter and Shubodh Ghosh’s Jatugriha". The Journal of Indian Writing in English, 2002, 30:1, 23-29.
Cox, Michael W. "Interpreters of Cultural Difference: The Use of Children in Jhumpa Lahiri's Short Fiction". South Asian Review, 2003; 24(2): 120-32.
Dubey, Ashutosh. "Immigrant experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s". The Journal of Indian Writing in English, 2002, 30:2, 22-26.
Ganapathy Dore, Geetha. "The Narrator as a Global Soul in Jumpha Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies (53-65) in Durix, Jean Pierre (ed.). The Global and the Particular in the English Speaking World. Dijon, France : Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2002.
Jennifer Bess "Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies. " The Explicator 62.2 (2004): 125-128
Jha, Parmanad. " Home and abroad: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies". The Indian Journal of English Studies, 2000-2001, 38.
Jhumpa Lahiri "A real durwan (published in 2000). " Literary Cavalcade 1 Feb. 2003: 36-42
Jhumpa Lahiri "Create a Character. " Literary Cavalcade 1 Mar. 2005: 28-30
Kaur, Tejinder. " Portrayal of diaspora experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies". The Quest, 2002, 16:2, 36-44.
Kaur, Tejinder. "Cultural dilemmas and displacements of immigrants in Jhumpa lahiri’s The Namesake". The Journal of Indian Writing in English, 2004, 32:2, 34-44.
Kaveree Bamzai, Prabhu Chawla "Rough Cut, Seedhi Baat On Aaj Tak. " India Today 25 July 2005 18
Lahiri, Jhumpa. "Accursed Palace: The Italian Palazzo on the Jacobean Stage (1603 1625)". Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A 1998 Mar; 58(9): 3537, DAI No.: DA9809110.
Lewis, Simon. "Lahiri's 'Interpreter of Maladies' ". Explicator, 2001 Summer; 59(4): 219-21.
McCarron, Bill. "The Color Blue in Jhumpa Lahiri's 'This Blessed House' ". Notes on Contemporary Literature, 2004 Jan; 34(1): 4-5
Nayak, Bhagabat. "Multicultural commitment: A study of Jhumpa lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies" in Indian English Literature by Basavaraj Naikar. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2002.
Noelle Brada-Williams "Reading Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies as a Short Story Cycle. " MELUS 29.3/4 (2004): 451-464
Purvi Shah "Interpreter of Maladies. " Amerasia Journal 27.2 (2001): 183-186
Ramachandra, Ragini. "Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies". The Journal of Indian Writing in English, 2001, 29:1, 50-54.
Sam Munson "The Namesake/The Fortress of Solitude. " Commentary 1 Nov. 2003: 68,70-72
Sean Flynn "Women we love: Jhumpa Lahiri. " Esquire 1 Oct. 2000: 172-173.
Simon Lewis "Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies. " The Explicator 59.4 (2001): 219-221
Sinha Aditya. " The Malady of Naming". Hindustan Times, September 28, 2003. (Review).
Susan Choi, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nell Freudenberger, Jhumpa Lahiri, et al "The Hum Inside The Skull, Revisited. " New York Times Book Review 16 Jan. 2005: 7.8
Tettenborn, Eva. "Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies: Colonial Fantasies in 'Sexy'".
Notes on Contemporary Literature, 2002 Sept; 32(4): 11-12.
Tom Wilhelmus "Next. " The Hudson Review 1 Apr. 2004: 133-140