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Jhumpa Lahiri (born 11 July 1967) is an author of Bengali Indian descent. Lahiri's debut 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 starring Tabu and Irfan Khan.
Lahiri's writing is characterized by her "plain" language and her characters, often Indian immigrants to America who must navigate between the cultural values of their birthplace and their adopted home.
Bibliography
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(2008)
Unaccustomed Earth
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(2005)
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
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(2003)
The Namesake
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(1999)
Interpreter of Maladies
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Vreemd land
Personal edit
- Legal name: Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa Lahiri"
- Birthdate: July 11, 1967 (age 44)
- Birthplace: London, Great Britain
- Nationality: American
- Gender: Female
- Official Website: http://www.themisathena.info/literature/lahiri1.html
- Genres: fiction
