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This is a 6 page paper discussing Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies”. Jhumpa Lahiri (1967- ) wrote “Interpreter of Maladies”, a collection of nine short stories, in 1999 which since has been critically acclaimed in addition to having received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Although this was Lahiri’s first major publication, the cross-cultural, -gendered and -generational approach to the stories holds a universal appeal for all readers. Born of Indian heritage but residing in New York, Lahiri maintains a subtle approach to her Indian culture and while all of her stories contain Indian characters or themes, Lahiri does not overwhelm readers with traditional Indian “magical realism” but instead provides readers with inside looks at her characters who experience the emotions associated with loss, communication, and loneliness; experience and emotions to which all readers can relate.
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Fiction. Although this was Lahiris first major publication, the cross-cultural, -gendered and -generational approach to the stories holds a universal appeal for all readers. Born of Indian heritage but residing
in New York, Lahiri maintains a subtle approach to her Indian culture and while all of her stories contain Indian characters or themes, Lahiri does not overwhelm readers with traditional
Indian "magical realism" but instead provides readers with inside looks at her characters who experience the emotions associated with loss, communication, and loneliness; experience and emotions to which all readers
can relate. Author Jhumpa Lahiri was born in 1967 in London, England of parents who were born and raised in India. Lahiri moved
and was raised in Rhode Island and graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in English. Lahiri had long written in school newspapers and on various collaborations with her friends
at an early age (SAWNet). Unable to originally get into graduate school however, she took a job as a research assistant at a non-profit institution in Cambridge. It was at
that time in which she noted that "I had a computer of my own at my desk, and started writing fictions again, more seriously" and eventually had enough material to
apply and be accepted into the graduate creative writing program at Boston University; eventually getting her Masters in English, Creative Writing and Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts and
her Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies (SAWNet; Cade et al). Lahiri admits that through the course of her education, she realized that she did not want to be a scholar and
after she finished her dissertation she was accepted into the Fine Arts Work Center which "changed everything" for her. Lahiris said that "in seven months I got an agent, sold
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