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Jhumpa Lahiri was born in 1967 in London, England, and was raised in Rhode Island. She received a B.A. in English literature from Barnard College, an M.A. in English, an M.A. in Creative Writing, an M.A.

in Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies from Boston University. Her first book, Interpreter of Maladies, a collection of stories, was published as a Mariner original paperback in June 1999 to overwhelming acclaim.

Interpreter of Maladieswon the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the American Academy of Arts & Letters Addison M. Metcalf Award, was a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, and was named Best Debut of the Year by The New Yorker.

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Lahiri was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2002. Lahiri currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

In your first book, Interpreter of Maladies, some of the stories are set in India, others in the United States.

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