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Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian.
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entertainment · Indian-American author (born 1967) · novelist · writer · university teacher · actor · screenwriter · academic · translator · also Jhumpa Lahiri, Jūmpā Lāhīrī, Nilanjana Svadeshna Lahiri, Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri, Jhumba Lahiri, Lahiri
Born 11 July 1967 · Q465208
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“When I first started writing, I was not conscious that my subject was the Indian-American experience. What drew me to my craft was the desire to force the two worlds I occupied to mingle on the page as I was not brave enough, or mature enough, to allow in life.”
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The New York Times: Jhumpa Lahiri
Hyperallergic: Author Jhumpa Lahiri Turns Down Noguchi Award Over Keffiyeh Ban
Forbes: Jhumpa Lahiri And Lee Ufan To Receive The 2024 Isamu Noguchi Award
The Guardian: Our obsession with origin is a global danger, says Jhumpa Lahiri
The Guardian: Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri review – outsiders in Italy
The Guardian: Jhumpa Lahiri: ‘Translation is an act of radical change’
Published “Lung cancer immunotherapy: progress, pitfalls, and promises” in Molecular Cancer — cited 968 times.
Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risks, 1990-2022” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 1,538 times.
The Guardian: Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri review – the sanctuary of language
NPR: Jhumpa Lahiri on how she fell in love with translating and how it shapes her writing
ELLE: Jhumpa Lahiri's Love Language
Wall Street Journal: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Identity Swings in ‘Translating Myself and Others’
Publishers Weekly: Books by Jhumpa Lahiri and Complete Book Reviews
Lahiri published a new short story collection under the title Racconti Romani (Roman stories), the title being a nod to a book by Alberto Moravia of the same name
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The Guardian: Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri review – a fascinating shift
The Guardian: Jhumpa Lahiri: ‘I’ve always existed in a kind of linguistic exile’
NPR: Jhumpa Lahiri On Her Unique Use Of Place In 'Whereabouts'
The Guardian: Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri review – hypnotic disappearing act
Published “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)<sup>1</sup>” in Autophagy — cited 2,505 times.
Published “Psychosocial impact of COVID-19” in Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews — cited 1,411 times.
Compiled, edited and translated the Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories which consists of 40 Italian short stories written by 40 different Italian writers
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Published “Cargo recognition and degradation by selective autophagy” in Nature Cell Biology — cited 989 times.
Lahiri published her first novel in Italian, Dove mi trovo (2018)
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Lahiri received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story
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The Guardian: Jhumpa Lahiri: ‘I am, in Italian, a tougher, freer writer’
The Guardian: In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri review – a Pulitzer prize winner gives up writing and speaking in English
Wall Street Journal: How Jhumpa Lahiri Learned to Write Again
Lahiri joined the Princeton University faculty as a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts
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Awarded Viareggio-Versilia International Prize (2015).
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Lahiri won the US$50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for The Lowland
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Won National Humanities Medal (2014).
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Lahiri was awarded the National Humanities Medal
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It lost out for that award to James McBride and his novel The Good Lord Bird
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Lahiri moved to Rome and has since then published two books of essays, and began writing in Italian, first with the 2018 novel Dove mi trovo, then with her 2023 collection Roman Stories
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Lahiri moved to Rome from Brooklyn with her husband and their two children, Octavio (born 2002) and Noor (b
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Published “Medical applications of infrared thermography: A review” in Infrared Physics & Technology — cited 1,090 times.
In 2012, Lahiri moved to Rome from Brooklyn with her husband and their two children, Octavio (born 2002) and Noor (b. 2005).
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Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2010).
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Published “An extended defect in graphene as a metallic wire” in Nature Nanotechnology — cited 957 times.
Published “Carbon nanotube reinforced metal matrix composites - a review” in International Materials Reviews — cited 1,341 times.
Published “Synthesis of Graphene and Its Applications: A Review” in Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences — cited 1,592 times.
Awarded Asian American Literary Awards (2009).
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Awarded Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (2009).
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Published “VL2” in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication — cited 1,183 times.
“Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.”
Lahiri published her first novel, The Namesake
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (2002).
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Published “Recent applications of the Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reaction in organic synthesis” in Tetrahedron — cited 1,634 times.
Lahiri married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a Greek-Guatemalan American journalist who was then the deputy editor of TIME Latin America and is now its senior editor
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000).
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Awarded Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (2000).
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Awarded O. Henry Award (1999).
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Published "Interpreter of Maladies", a short story that received positive reviews and was included in The Best American Short Stories 1999, edited by authors Katrina Kenison and Amy Tan
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While Lahiri was completing her dissertation, she soon secretly aspired again to be a writer after feeling burned out on academia
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Was titled Accursed Palace: The Italian Palazzo on the Jacobean Stage (1603–1625)
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Published “A rapid non-enzymatic method for the preparation of HMW DNA from blood for RFLP studies” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 1,739 times.
The Life of a Weighing Scale (also titled The Adventures of a Weighing Scale), which she wrote from the perspective of a bathroom scale, for her school contest that she won and that "everyone had to write a book
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Her family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when she was three
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Born 1967-07-11.
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