{"id":65127,"date":"2009-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/pulitzer-prize-winning-author-to-read-from-new-book-at-1110-uri-honors-colloquium\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:00:00","slug":"pulitzer-prize-winning-author-to-read-from-new-book-at-1110-uri-honors-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/11\/pulitzer-prize-winning-author-to-read-from-new-book-at-1110-uri-honors-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer Prize winning author to read from new book at 11\/10 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 2, 2009 \u2013Jhumpa Lahiri, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner, Interpreter of Maladies, as well as best-sellers Namesake and Unaccustomed Earth, will speak at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium, Demystifying India, Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Edwards Auditorium, 64 Upper College Road.<\/p>\n


\n\tAll Honors Colloquium programs are free and open to the public. As a public health precaution, the University asks those with influenza-like symptoms on the day of the program not to attend, but rather watch the evening program live online via the Demystifying India link at www.uri.edu. <\/p>\n


\nLahiri will read from Unaccustomed Earth and will also discuss her experiences of growing up as an Indian-American just 2 miles from 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston Campus.<\/p>\n


\nAccording to the Random House web site, her collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, takes the reader from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand into the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.<\/p>\n


\nIn the title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city is visited by her father, who carefully tends her garden, and he establishes a special bond with his grandson. But he is hiding a love affair from his daughter.<\/p>\n


\nLahiri\u2019s book, Interpreter of Maladies was chosen as a common reading assignment for all of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 3,000 freshmen. Students and staff at 溏心vlog免费B站 have already contributed 400 comments to a blog about the book at http:\/\/www.uricommonreading.blogspot.com\/. <\/p>\n


\nLahiri\u2019s parents came to Kingston in 1970, when she was 3 and they still live about 2 miles from campus. Her father still works at the university library, in the cataloging department. Her mother, who turns 70 this year, is a graduate student in the School of Education.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cMy parents are of Bengali origin, born and raised in India, and I was always aware that my family didn\u2019t fully belong in the place where we lived,\u201d Lahiri wrote in the ongoing blog. \u201cBut I never doubted that we were a part of 溏心vlog免费B站. The university was a sanctuary of tolerance and respect, a creative and dynamic place, filled with people of diverse backgrounds who embraced intellectual inquiry and celebrated the life of the mind. 溏心vlog免费B站 was my playground, the park I roamed in on Sunday afternoons. When we had guests from out of town, my parents proudly showed off the campus, pointing to its lovely buildings and tranquil, open space. I attended nursery school at the Child Development Center on Lower College Road and enjoyed my first meals out at the cafeteria in the Memorial Union.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n When she began writing short stories, \u201c溏心vlog免费B站 was one of my inspirations. Although my stories are not autobiographical, two of the stories in Interpreter of Maladies\u2014\u201cWhen Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine\u201d and \u201cMrs. Sen\u2019s\u201d\u2014are informed by memories of my upbringing in Kingston in the 1970s.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nShe said the narrator in \u201cThe Third and Final Continent\u201d is based, in part, on her father, who has been an employee of 溏心vlog免费B站 now for 39 years, and that story was her attempt to commemorate, in fiction, his journey to the United States. \u201cIn general, many of the characters in my books tend to be either students or professors. When people ask me why, I tell them 溏心vlog免费B站 is the reason,\u201d Lahiri said.<\/p>\n


\nFor further details about the colloquium, including an updated schedule and information on parking, go to www.uri.edu\/hc or contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Center at 401-874-2381 or debg@uri.edu.<\/p>\n


\nMajor colloquium sponsors are: The Honors Program, Office of the President, Office of the Provost, College of Business Administration, College of Arts & Sciences, College of Engineering, Division of University Advancement, The Anthony J. Risica Lecture Series on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and The Village Inn – Narragansett.<\/p>\n


\nAdditional sponsors include: College of Human Science and Services, College of the Environment and Life Sciences, Office of the Vice President for Administration, Office of the Vice Provost for Information Technology Services, University College, 溏心vlog免费B站 Diversity Week-Multicultural Center, 溏心vlog免费B站 Women\u2019s Studies Program, The Mark and Donna Ross Honors Colloquium Humanities Endowment, Kabob N Curry – Providence, and Professor G.S. Verma and Mrs. R. Verma.<\/p>\n

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