Jhumpa Lahiri

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Jhumpa Lahiri Vourvoulias ( Bengali : ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী, Jhumpā Lāhiṛī; born July 11, 1967 in London ) is an American author of Indian descent . Many of her short stories are about the lives and problems of Indo-Americans, especially Bengali . In 2000 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize .

Jhumpa Lahiri (2013)

biography

Lahiri was born to Bengali parents with the real name Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri in England, nicknames they called her Jhumpa. She grew up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island . She graduated with a BA in English Literature from Barnard College in 1989 ; She then earned MAs in English, Creative Writing, and Comparative Literature and a Ph. D. in Renaissance Studies from Boston University . She also taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design . From 1997 to 1998 she was a Fellow at Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center.

In 1999 her debut Melancholie der Verwaltung ( Interpreter of Maladies ) was released. The collection of nine short stories explores marital problems, miscarriages, and alienation between first and second generation Indian immigrants in the United States. The stories take place in the northeastern United States and India , particularly Kolkata . The book won the Pulitzer Prize in the Novel (Fiction) category in 2000 .

Her fifth book, which was also her first novel, was The Namesake . It was published in 2003 and is about the fictional Ganguli family. The parents are both from Kolkata and immigrated to the United States as young adults. Their children Gogol and Sonia grew up in the United States. The tensions arising from the cultural conflict between parents and children are the subject of the book. In 2007 the film adaptation of the book by Mira Nair appeared with Kal Penn , Tabu and Irrfan Khan in the leading roles. Lahiri makes a cameo in the film.

In 2001 she married the journalist Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush. You have two children and live in Brooklyn . Jhumpa Lahiri has been Vice President of the PEN American Center since 2005 .

Awards

Works

  • 1999: Interpreter of Maladies.
    • Übers. Barbara Heller: Melancholy of the arrival. Blessing, Munich 2000 ISBN 3-89667-110-3 ; further editions in different publishers
  • 2001: Nobody's Business , in The New Yorker , March 11, 2001
  • 2003: The Namesake
    • Translator Barbara Heller: The namesake. Blessing, Munich 2003 ISBN 3-89667-111-1 and other editions
  • 2004: Hell-Heaven, in The New Yorker, May 8, 2004
  • 2006: Once in a Lifetime, in The New Yorker, May 1, 2006
  • 2008: Unaccustomed Earth. Short stories.
  • 2013: The Lowland , Bloomsbury, London ISBN 978-1-4088-2811-3 ; Paperback ISBN 978-1-4088-4455-7 .
  • In altre parole . Parma: Guanda, 2015
    • In Other Words . Bilingual Italian-English. Translated from Italian into English by Ann Goldstein. London: Bloomsbury, 2016
    • In other words. How I fell in love with Italian . Translation by Margit Knapp. Rowohlt, 2017
  • 2016: The Clothing of Books , Vintage, London ISBN 978-0-525-43275-3 .
  • 2018: Where I Find Myself
    • Where I find myself , Roman, 160 p., From the Italian by Margit Knapp, Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-498-00110-0 .

literature

Secondary literature on Jhumpa Lahiri:

Web links

Commons : Jhumpa Lahiri  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c The Best American Short Stories 2002. On the website of the magazine there are currently (2014) 79 short stories by the author in full text, in chronological order, the last one from February 2014. Use search engine there
  3. ↑ Excerpt from The Namesake , NPR, accessed June 8, 2020
  4. ↑ the last 3 (of a total of 8) stories from Unaccustomed Earth , there they form a separate chapter Hema and Kaushik
  5. ↑ Eight stories. Readable in online bookshops
  6. ↑ It's only the 5 first (of 8) stories from Unaccustomed Earth . The 3 other see under Once in a lifetime.
  7. ↑ Jhumpa Lahiri: 'I am, in Italian, a tough, freer writer' , The Guardian, January 31, 2016, accessed June 8, 2020
  8. ↑ Jhumpa Lahiri: "Where I find myself" Fine-grained observation of life , deutschlandfunk.de, published and accessed June 8, 2020
  9. ↑ Book review: Jhumpa Lahiri - Where I find myself , SWR2 Worth reading from May 17, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Lahiri, Jhumpa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jhumpa Lahiri Vourvoulias; Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author of Indian descent
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK