Jhumpa Lahiri
Novelist, Author
1967 –
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Who is Jhumpa Lahiri?
Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake, was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna but goes by her nickname 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.
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- Born
- Jul 11, 1967
London - Also known as
- Nilanjana Sudheshna Lahiri
- Spouses
- Alberto Vourvoulias
(2001/01/15 - )
- Alberto Vourvoulias
- Children
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Ethnicity
- Indian American
- Nationality
- India
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Boston University
- Barnard College
- South Kingstown High School
- Employment
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Lived in
- Rhode Island
- Brooklyn
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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