Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri byname of Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri, (born July 11, 1967, London, England), English-born American novelist and short-story writer. Her works illuminate the immigrant experience, in particular that of East Indians. She is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and more recently, in Italian. 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 a popular movie. 

Category:1967 births
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:Living people
Category:O. Henry Award winners
Category:Princeton University faculty
Category:Writers from Brooklyn
Category:Writers from Rhode Island