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Jhumpa Lahiri

American Author

Born: Jul 11, 1967

Life Me Myself Think Writing You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually. Jhumpa Lahiri

Sort Island Campus Rhode Rhode Island Actually Margins University

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city. Jhumpa Lahiri

Time Me Language First Important Become Fluent City Gut About Instant Day-To-Day Know Another Felt First Time Years Years Ago Get Wanted Rome Connection Functional

My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father's face what it meant that I had done this. Jhumpa Lahiri

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing. Jhumpa Lahiri

Writing College Secretly Slowly After Started

I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going to happen, and the pace. But I think if I stop to think about it in an abstract sense, I feel very daunted. I just try to enter into the story and feel my way through it. It's a very murky, intuitive way of going about it. Jhumpa Lahiri

My father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be. Jhumpa Lahiri

Work Home Me Library World Father Somehow He Part Knew Also Because Encouraged Just Just Because Wanted Really

I think one of the things that attracted me about theater and the stage was the ability to escape reality. And that is what I do in my work as a writer, but in a different way. And the freedom to put your own existence on ice and become another person. Jhumpa Lahiri

Work Freedom Me Reality Become Own Stage Think Way One Of The Things Ability About Writer Put Attracted Another Existence Escape Person Different Theater Ice Your Different Way Things

I've gained a lot from James Joyce, Tolstoy, Chekhov and R. K. Narayan. While writing, I try to see if the story is going to radiate spokes. Their literature has always done that and gifted me beautiful things. Jhumpa Lahiri

Oddly, I feel more protected when I write in Italian, even though I'm also more exposed. Jhumpa Lahiri

Though More Write Feel Also Protected Italian Oddly Exposed Even

My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door. Jhumpa Lahiri

Myself Me World School Parents Else Everywhere Out Foot Had Soon Between Like Also Sort Caught Still Cambridge Came Arrived Left Surrounded Behind Door Much Novel Found Set

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