Lahiri recalled, "I always felt so embarrassed by my name. When she began kindergarten in Kingston, Rhode Island, Lahiri's teacher decided to call her by her pet name, Jhumpa, because it was easier to pronounce than her "proper names". Lahiri's mother wanted her children to grow up knowing their Bengali heritage, and her family often visited relatives in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Her family moved to the United States when she was two Lahiri considers herself an American, having said, "I wasn't born here, but I might as well have been." Lahiri grew up in Kingston, Rhode Island, where her father Amar Lahiri works as a librarian at the University of Rhode Island he is the basis for the protagonist in "The Third and Final Continent," the closing story from Interpreter of Maladies. Lahiri was born in London, the daughter of Indian immigrants from the state of West Bengal. Lahiri is a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, appointed by U.S. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name.She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna but goes by her nickname Jhumpa. Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian American author.
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