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Jhumpa Lahiri
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Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London
in 1967 and was raised in Rhode
Island.
She is the author of Interpreter of Maladies, a collection of short
stories, and The Namesake, a novel. Her work has received the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the American Academy
of Arts & Letters Addison M. Metcalf Award, and a Best Debut of the Year by
The New Yorker.
She has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and was awarded a Guggenheim
fellowship in 2002 and an NEA fellowship in 2006. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children and is a vice-president of PEN American Center.
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