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Jhumpa Lahiri Facts
Jhumpa Lahiri Is Born On May 21, 1909
Jhumpa Lahiri Zodiac Sign Is Gemini
Jhumpa Lahiri Zodiac Symbol Is Twins
Jhumpa Lahiri Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Rooster
Jhumpa Lahiri Occupation Is Author
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As he watched, he had an immovable expression on his face, composed but alert, as if someone were giving him directions to an unknown destination. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I dont think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctors office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
I cant tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Ive never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other peoples computers as a bystander. A few times in my life Ive opened email accounts, twice actually, but its something I dont want in my life right now. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Ive seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasnt occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I dont feel like going back and dredging them up. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Its easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Its hard for me to talk about anything Im doing at the moment. Its only after I finish something that I can actually describe it in words. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Relationships do not preclude issues of morality. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
The narrator is not anybody in particular. Its a group of women, so theres no particular identity to the narrative voice. A Faulkner story, A Rose For Emily. I admired used that voice and I wanted to try it out.. It was an experiment for myself. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
The reactions havent differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Theres obviously a message, or a moral, or something. I think thats good - but its not something I actively think about, to be honest with you. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually dont have any memories of this gentleman. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
When I sit down to write, I dont think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and its an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that Ill think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, Ive realized that is in a sense what has happened. But as I was writing them, I didnt feel a part of any tradition. I think that would have been too overwhelming, in a sense. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
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