Had the delivery taken place in Calcutta, she would have had her baby at home, surrounded by family. New to America, Ashima struggles through language and culture barriers as well as her own fears as she delivers the first child alone. It is 1968 and her husband Ashoka is an engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ashima Ganguli is a young bride about to deliver her first child in a hospital in Massachusselts. She received the following awards, among others:ġ999 - PEN/Hemingway Award (Best Fiction Debut of the Year) for Interpreter of Maladies Ģ000 - The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year for Interpreter of Maladies Ģ000 - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut Interpreter of Maladies. Much of her short fiction concerns the lives of Indian-Americans, particularly Bengalis. Lahiri taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has been a Vice President of the PEN American Center since 2005. In 2001, she married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who was then Deputy Editor of TIME Latin America Lahiri currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. She took up a fellowship at Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center, which lasted for the next two years (1997-1998). She then received multiple degrees from Boston University: an M.A. in English literature from Barnard College in 1989.

Lahiri graduated from South Kingstown High School and later received her B.A. Brought up in America by a mother who wanted to raise her children to be Indian, she learned about her Bengali heritage from an early age.

In 2001, she married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who was then Deputy Editor Nilanjana Sudeshna 'Jhumpa' Lahiri was born in London and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Nilanjana Sudeshna 'Jhumpa' Lahiri was born in London and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

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