Lahari biography

British-American author (born )

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri^[1] (born July 11, ) is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian.^[2]

Her debut collection of short-stories, Interpreter of Maladies (), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first novel, The Namesake (), was adapted into the popular film of the same name.

The Namesake was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and was made into a major motion picture.^[3]Unaccustomed Earth () won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, while her second novel, The Lowland ()^[4] was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. On January 22, , Lahiri won the US$50, DSC Prize for Literature for The Lowland.^[5] In these works, Lahiri explored the Indian-immigran