Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 11. Juli 1967 |
Geburtsort | London, England |
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Beschreibung | Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (geboren am 11. Juli 1967) ist eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin, die für ihre Kurzgeschichten, Romane und Essays in englischer und neuerdings auch in italienischer Sprache bekannt ist. Ihr Debüt, die Kurzgeschichtensammlung Interpreter of Maladies (1999), wurde mit dem Pulitzer-Preis für Belletristik und dem PEN/Hemingway Award ausgezeichnet, und ihr erster Roman The Namesake (2003) wurde mit dem gleichnamigen Film verfilmt. |
I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.
I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.
For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
