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. Nilanjana Sudeshna 'Jhumpa' Lahiri was born in London and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. A startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention. Presented in a dual-language format, it is a book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Nabokov. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice. In Rome, Lahiri began to read, and to write-initially in her journal-solely in Italian.

So in 2012, seeking full immersion, she decided to move to Rome with her family, for “a trial by fire, a sort of baptism” into a new language and world. And although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery had always eluded her. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college.

In Other Words is at heart a love story-of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. From the Pulitzer Prize winner, a surprising, powerful, and eloquent nonfiction debut

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