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Jhumpa Lahiri


Born
in London, England, The United Kingdom
July 11, 1967

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Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri is a British-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 (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. The Namesake was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and was made into a major motion picture.

Unaccustomed Earth (2008) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, while her second novel, The Lowland (2013) was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.

On January 22, 2015, Lahir
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Average rating: 4.04 · 801,585 ratings · 65,741 reviews · 107 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Namesake

4.02 avg rating — 283,789 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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Interpreter of Maladies

4.18 avg rating — 206,270 ratings — published 1999 — 24 editions
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Unaccustomed Earth

4.14 avg rating — 96,700 ratings — published 2008 — 99 editions
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The Lowland

3.88 avg rating — 96,511 ratings — published 2013
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Whereabouts

3.76 avg rating — 34,797 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
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In Other Words

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Roman Stories

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Interpreter of Maladies / T...

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The Clothing of Books: An E...

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Hell-Heaven

4.19 avg rating — 1,198 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
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“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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