Ninanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri was born on July 11, 1967. She is an American writer known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian. The first collection of her short stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was made into a film. The Namesake, her first novel, was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and a major motion picture.
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