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Jhumpa

Jhumpa is a feminine given name of Bengali origin, used in India and among the Bengali diaspora. It is most widely associated with Jhumpa Lahiri, an Indian-American writer whose work centers on immigrant life and cultural identity.

Jhumpa Lahiri was born in 1967 in London to Bengali parents and grew up in the United

The name Jhumpa itself is primarily encountered within Bengali-speaking communities and the Indian diaspora, where it

States.
She
rose
to
prominence
with
Interpreter
of
Maladies
(1999),
a
collection
of
short
stories
that
won
the
Pulitzer
Prize
for
Fiction
in
2000.
Her
subsequent
books
include
the
novels
The
Namesake
(2003)
and
The
Lowland
(2013),
as
well
as
the
story
collection
Unaccustomed
Earth
(2008).
Lahiri
has
published
works
in
English
and,
later,
in
Italian,
completing
In
Altre
Parole
(Other
Words)
in
Italian
in
2015
and
its
English
translation
in
2016.
Her
writing
often
explores
themes
of
migration,
family,
memory,
and
language.
may
function
as
a
given
name
or
nickname.
Outside
those
contexts,
the
name
is
relatively
uncommon,
and
the
prominence
of
Lahiri
has
led
to
a
strong
association
with
that
single
figure
in
contemporary
literary
culture.