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a child she wrote extensive ‘novels’ in notebooks, sometimes in collaboration with friends. She wrote for her school newspaper, but stopped writing fiction by the time she went to college. She believed that an academic career was more her future than a creative writing one.

Lahiri graduated from South Kingstown High School, and received a B.A in English literature at Barnard College. After graduating from Barnard College, Lahiri continued at Boston University, where she received multiple degrees: an M.A in English, an M.A in Creative Writing, an M.A in Comparative Studies in Literature and Arts, and a PH.D in Renaissance studies. Following the PH.D program, she took up a fellowship at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center, which lasted for the next two years (1997-1998).

During completion of her doctorate thesis in 1997, she worked for Boston magazine as an intern. Furthermore, throughout her six years at Boston University, Lahiri worked on short stories, nine of which were collected in her debut book, ”Interpreter of Maladies”(1999). It consists of three stories previously published in the New Yorker, plus six unpublished works. The book began to receive awards almost immediately after its publication. Among the first ones received in 1999 was the PEN / Hemingway award for the best fiction debut of the year.

The title story, ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ was chosen for the O’Henry Award for best American short stories. Lahiri was also a recipient of Transatlantic Review award from Henfield Foundation and the fiction prize from Louisville Review. It also received the New Yorker Debut of the Year Award, an Academy of Arts and Letters Addison Metcalf Award, and a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The New Yorker has published three of her stories and named her as one of the twenty best writers under the age of forty. The greatest tribute to her talent thus far has been the award for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She is the first Indian woman to receive this award. The book was translated into twenty-nine languages and became a bestseller both in the United States and abroad.

The common thread throughout the stories in this collection is a sort of malady the characters suffer from. All the characters are defined by isolation of some form or another: husbands are isolated from wives, immigrants are isolated from their families and their homes, children are isolated from their parents, and people are isolated from the communities in which they live. In their isolation, these characters feel that they are missing something vital to their identities. It is this missing “something” that defines them.

The personal life of Lahiri is the very prototype of diasporic culture. Being asked about identity, she once stated in an interview that:

The question of identity is always a difficult one, but especially so far for those who are culturally displaced, as immigrants are, or those who grow up in two worlds simultaneously, as is the case of their children. The older I get, the more aware am I that I have 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。