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Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri [1] (born July 11, 1967) is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian. [ 2 ] Her debut collection of short-stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award , and her first novel, The ...
Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by American author of Indian origin Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
The Pulitzer-winning author discusses her new short story collection.
As with much of Lahiri's work, Unaccustomed Earth considers the lives of Indian American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment. [1] [2] The book was Lahiri's first to top The New York Times Best Seller list, where it debuted at #1.
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The Lowland is the second novel by American author Jhumpa Lahiri, published by Alfred A. Knopf and Random House in 2013. The book received praise from critics and was commercially successful. On October 13, 2013, The Lowland reached #5 of the New York Times Best-sellers list of combined print and ebooks. [1] The book also was at #3 on the ...
necessary but not sufficient condition for Latino students to succeed in American schools” (KERPER MORA, 2002: 32). Thus, broader reforms such as increasing parental choice have been promoted as achieving more sustainable and equitable results. During the 1990s, a new school reform movement became extremely influential in the United States.
Three years ago, she and her husband settled in Daejeon, a city of 1.5 million south of Seoul. The city is lively and safe. Public transportation is accessible and free for senior citizens ...