Object Details
- Artist
- David Levine, 20 Dec 1926 - 29 Dec 2009
- Sitter
- Jhumpa Lahiri, born 11 Jul 1967
- Exhibition Label
- Born London, England
- Born in London to Bengali parents, Jhumpa Lahiri moved to Rhode Island at age two. She has said that while growing up, she did not feel fully at home in the United States or in India: “At many times in my life, I wished I could be like any other American . . . feel really a part of it, really woven into it. I couldn’t. I just couldn’t do it. And all of my writing has come out of that.” As an adult, Lahiri earned three master’s degrees and a doctorate before pursuing a literary career. Shortly thereafter, she became a signal voice of the South Asian immigrant experience in the United States and won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/ Hemingway Award for her debut short-story collection, The Interpreter of Maladies (1999). Lahiri’s novel The Lowlands (2013) was a bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award.
- In David Levine’s caricature of Lahiri, which first accompanied a review of The Namesake (2003), he portrayed her in a traditional Indian sari, seated on the floor with a computer.
- Nacida en Londres, Inglaterra
- De padres bengalíes, Jhumpa Lahiri se trasladó
- de Londres a Rhode Island cuando tenía dos años. Ha dicho que de pequeña no se sentía realmente cómoda ni en Estados Unidos ni en la India: “En muchos momentos de mi vida deseé poder ser como cualquier otro americano [...] sentirme de verdad parte de eso, parte de su fibra. No podía. Simplemente no podía. Y todos mis escritos han surgido de ahí”. Lahiri obtuvo tres grados de maestría y un doctorado antes de iniciar su carrera literaria. Poco después se convirtió en voz señera de la experiencia migratoria surasiática en Estados Unidos y ganó los premios Pulitzer y PEN/Hemingway por su primera colección de cuentos, El intérprete del dolor (1999). Su novela La hondonada (2013) fue un éxito de ventas y finalista del Premio Nacional del Libro.
- Esta caricatura de Lahiri realizada por David Levine acompañó una reseña de El buen nombre (2003) y la presenta con el tradicional sari indio, sentada en el piso con una computadora.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; copyright Eve and Matthew Levine
- 2003
- Object number
- NPG.2013.39
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- ©2003 Matthew and Eve Levine
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Ink over graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 35.7 × 27.5 cm (14 1/16 × 10 13/16")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Costume\Jewelry\Necklace
- Costume\Jewelry\Ring
- Caricature
- Equipment\Computer
- Jhumpa Lahiri: Female
- Jhumpa Lahiri: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer
- Jhumpa Lahiri: Literary awards\Pulitzer Prize
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2013.39
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4b15624e6-71aa-4a67-8c52-f57db46f828f
