Background
This is the part of India that Lahiri's parents were born in.
What is Kolkata (Calcutta)?
Lahiri attended this college for her undergraduate degree and where she currently teaches at.
What is Barnard College?
Lahiri wrote two novels in English (name one).
What is The Lowland?
Or
What is The Namesake?
This bilingual book by Jhumpa Lahiri explores her journey of learning Italian and adopting it as her own language.
What is In Other Words?
This is the author that does not have an explicit background in faith.
Who is Jhumpa Lahiri?
Lahiri was raised in this New England state known for its capital, Providence.
What is Rhode Island?
She taught at this university before teaching at her current one.
This is the name of Lahiri's volume of essays.
What is Translating Myself and Others?
This is the suggested audience of this book (name 1).
Who is
Italians
Language learners
Expats
Creatives
Those dedicated to a craft
Those dedicated to an idea
Lovers of learning
Exiles?
This was the language that Lahiri spoke with her parents at home.
What is Bengali?
This is the city in the U.S. where Lahiri spent her young adult years.
What is New York City?
At Boston University she obtained this Ph.D.
The name of both English short story collections (name both).
What is the Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccustomed Earth?
This was the year that Lahiri first visited Italy and developed a deep, inexplicable connection to the Italian language.
What is 1994?
This is an opportunity afforded to students who major in a language at Messiah University.
What is study abroad?
This was the year that Lahiri moved to Rome.
What is 2012?
She obtained two honorary degrees from these two universities.
What is the University for Siena per Stranieri and from the University of Bologna in Italy?
This is the Italian name of In Other Words.
What is in altre parole?
These are the three different ways that Lahiri mentions in her book how she learned Italian?
What is independent study, private instructors and full immersion?
This is the page that this quote was taken from “It’s a book of memory, full of metaphors. It recounts a search, a victory, a continual defeat. Childhood and adulthood, an evolution, maybe a revolution. It’s a book of love, of suffering. It recounts a new independence together with a new dependence. A collaboration, and also a state of solitude… I consider it a sort of linguistic autobiography, a self-portrait,”.
What is page 213?
This was the first location that Lahiri's parents moved to.
She attended Boston University to obtain these three masters degrees.
What is M.A. in English Literature, M.A. in Creative Writing, M.A. in Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts?
This is the Italian name of Lahiri's collection of Italian poetry.
What is Il quaderno di Nerina (Nerina’s Notebook)?
Through these different literary techniques Lahiri explores the emotional experience of adopting a new language.
What is thoughtful reflection, complex metaphors, and short stories?
This is what informs Lahiri's work.
What is the drive to learn, application of self, and a creative act that expands the horizon?