Jhumpa Lahiri Writer

Jhumpa Lahiri (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী; born on July 11, 1967) is an Indian American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna but goes by her nickname (or in Bengali, her "Daak naam") Jhumpa. Lahiri is a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama. Her book The Lowland, published in 2013, was a nominee for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Lahiri Nilanjana Sudeshna [Svdeshna] (birth name)
Birth date	July 11, 1967
Birth name	Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
Birth place	London , United Kingdom

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award	O. Henry Award Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
genre	Novel Short story collection Postcolonialism
influenced by	Anton Chekhov Alice Munro Richard Yates (novelist) Andre Dubus Vladimir Nabokov William Trevor Mavis Gallant Leo Tolstoy
notable work	The Namesake Interpreter of Maladies The Lowland