![]() Lahiri’s characters are often immigrants from India or children of immigrants who deal with issues of cultural displacement, marital troubles and issues of identity. Several of these stories had previously appeared in the New Yorker, and she was the recipient of an O. Lahiri’s debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was published in 1999 to critical acclaim. degrees in English, Creative Writing, and Comparative Literature and the Arts, as well as a Ph.D. at Barnard College, and from Boston University she earned M.A. Her Bengali parents, a teacher and a librarian, took their family on regular trips to Calcutta, India to visit extended family. She was born in London in 1967 and raised in Rhode Island. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri is celebrated for her depiction of immigrant and Indian-American life, yet her poignant stories also capture universal themes of longing, loneliness and barriers of communication. ![]() ![]() In a world where so many senseless and destructive events are constantly taking place, it is especially consoling, and commendable.” “I salute the city of Chicago for promoting and celebrating the act of reading and the importance of literature on such a grand, civic scale. ![]()
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