Ms. Lahiri attended Barnard College, graduating in 1989 with a major around English Literature & down the road attended Boston University, earning Master's Degrees inside each Creative Writing & Comparative Studies inside Literature & a Arts, too as a PhD in Renaissance Studies. She likewise worked the short instance teaching originative writing at Boston University and Rhode Island School of Design. She was awarded a 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut collection of nine short stories, Interpreter of Maladies. Good deal of her short fiction concerns a survives of Indian-Americans and a shade of their endures. Her 2nd book & number 1 novel, The Namesake, was published in 2003.

Presently, Ms. Lahiri lasts & works within Brooklyn, New York with her Guatemalan-American married man & their boy Octavio. An anecdote published around USA Today mentions a school teacher world health organization uncovered her given title as well hanker & utilized her nickname Jhumpa instead. Ms. Lahiri adapted this incident within her book A Namesake.

Ms. Lahiri's book, The Namesake, is being off into a film, The Namesake, directed by Mira Nair, with the screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala. A film casts Tabu, Irfan Khan and Kal Penn