Lahiri graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. Born on July 11, 1967, in London, England, She, however, was brought up in America when her family moved there when she was three years old. Jhumpa Lahiri, a young writer of high acclaim draws her literary excellence through her first collection of stories entitled Interpreter of Maladies which has fetched her the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for fiction (2000), the New Yorker Prize for Best First Book, the PEN / Hemingway Award and was short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Award. Nowadays it is applied to a number of ethnic and racial group living abroad. In olden days, the term was used for the worldwide scattering of the Jews outside Palestine. Diaspora is a word derived from the Greek word 'diaspeiro,' literally means an alien land, away from their traditional homelands. Such writers are known as 'expatriate writings' or 'immigrant writings.' Generally, at best, their writings are known as writers of the Indian diaspora in English. These writer writings are generally marked by a sense of isolation and far-removedness from the mother country. Some writers immigrated heritage has been handed down from their ancestors and some experience first hand. It is about those writers who migrated abroad. Within the recent years, numerous writers of literature with regard to the feeling of Indianness have come up.
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