Author

Books by Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri is an American-British author born in London to Bengali immigrant parents and raised in Rhode Island. Her debut short story collection Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000. The Namesake, her first novel, was adapted into a film by Mira Nair in 2006. Her later work includes the story collection Unaccustomed Earth and the novel The Lowland. She has also written In Other Words, a memoir about learning Italian written entirely in that language. She is widely regarded as one of the defining chroniclers of the South Asian diaspora experience.