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Name: Jhumpa Lahiri
Birth Date: 1967
Place of Birth: London, England
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: Novelist, Short story writer

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Biography of Jhumpa Lahiri
1,835 words, approx. 6 pages
Jhumpa Lahiri writes fiction about the Indian immigrant experience in America. She surprised the literary world in 2001 when she won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her very first full-length effort, a collection of short stories titled Interpreter...


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Jhumpa Lahiri Information
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Jhumpa Lahiri (born Nilanjana Sudeshna in 1967) (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী Jhumpa Lahiŗi) is a contemporary American writer author born in London, England and raised in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, of Indian descent. She...


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Herizons
Interpreter of Maladies: Jhumpa Lahiri
07/01/2001: 576 words, approx. 2 pages
INTERPRETER OF MALADIES: JHUMPA LAHIRI Every once m a while there appears a new work of fiction with the power to remind us why we read in the first place. With this, a first collection of short stories, Jhumpa Lahiri electrified the...
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World Literature Today
Jhumpa Lahiri. The Namesake.(Book Review)
09/01/2004: 814 words, approx. 3 pages
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 2003. 291 pages. $24. ISBN 0-395 92721 8 JHUMPA LAHIRI'S The Namesake appears within one year of publication of Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters (see WLT 77:3-4, p. 86). Both novels have identical plots: a young...
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The New York Observer
Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams: We Hate Ratnerville!
5/8/2006: 1,951 words, approx. 7 pages
Lights! Camera! Activism! A coterie of Brooklyn celebrities has aligned itself against Bruce Ratner's plan for a Nets stadium and surrounding development in Prospect Heights. The group includes Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss, Peter Galassi,...
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The New York Observer
Tuesday: Hip Brooklyn Novelists (and Boy George) Save The Day!
6/27/2006: 404 words, approx. 1 pages
If you look on the bright side, many more new homes were sold in May than Wall Street had predicted. But they were mostly in the South. (And the West. And the Midwest.) As for us lovely Northeasterners, our sales were down 7.9%, matching a...
 


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