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MIT Program in
Writing and Humanistic Studies
MIT, Room 14E-303
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Telephone: 617-253-7894
FAX: 617-253-6910
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MIT Writers presents . .
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Jhumpa
Lahiri
Thursday, November 2, 2000 - 7:00 pm
Building 10 - Room 250
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Jhumpa Lahiri
"A dazzling
storyteller with a distinctive voice,
an eye for nuance, an ear for irony.' - Amy Tan
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Photo:
Marc Royce, The New Yorker Magazine
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Winner of the
2000 Pulitzer Prize
for fiction
for
interpreter of maladies
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Jhumpa Lahiri's collection of short stories
INTERPRETER OF MALADIES: STORIES FROM BOSTON, BENGAL AND
BEYOND has won the 2000 PULITZER PRIZE for
fiction. The story "Interpreter of Maladies"
has been selected for both the O. HENRY AWARD and
inclusion in The Best American Short Stories.
Born in London, raised in New England,
now living in New York City, "cosmopolitan" Lahiri is marked
as an "ethnic writer." But in some ways Lahiri does not
satisfy the checklist of ethnic writers. Her stories are set
in India and the U.S., and travel back and forth with no
effort. Lahiri is at her most skillful when portraying the
uneasy mixing of Indian and American values
The first story in the collection,
"A Temporary Matter," is being made into an
hour-long film by Mira Nair (acclaimed director of Salam
Bombay) for the Public Broadcasting Service, in their East
West series. This story unravels complex emotions through a
simple situation that is very familiar to people from
Calcutta: a cut in electric power. Repairs on a faulty cable
line in Boston lead to five days of hour-long power cuts.
The diaspora couple, Shobha and Shukumar, coping with a
disintegrating marraige, use this time to exchange secrets
that have driven them apart since the loss of their first
child.
Free and open to the public - no tickets
required
Sponsored by the Program in Writing and Humanistic
Studies
and the Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies
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For more information, call 617/253-7894
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