Jhumpa Lahiri

Name: Jhumpa Lahiri

AKA: Nilanjana Sudeshna

Born: 11-Jul-1967

Birthplace: London, England

Gender: Female

Race: Asian/Indian

Sexual Orientation: Straight

Occupation: Author

Party Affiliation:

Nationality: United States

Description: Interpreter of Maladies

Awards:

• 1993 – TransAtlantic Award from the Henfield Foundation
• 1999 – O.Henry Award for short story “Interpreter of Maladies”
• 1999 – PEN/Hemingway Award (Best Fiction Debut of the Year) for “Interpreter of Maladies”
• 1999 – “Interpreter of Maladies” selected as one of Best American Short Stories
• 2000 – Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
• 2000 – “The Third and Final Continent” selected as one of Best American Short Stories
• 2000 – The New Yorker’s Best Debut of the Year for “Interpreter of Maladies”
• 2000 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut “Interpreter of Maladies”
• 2000 – James Beard Foundation’s M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for “Indian Takeout” in Food&Wine Magazine.
• 2002 – Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2002 – “Nobody’s Business” selected as one of Best American Short Stories
• 2008 – Franl O’Connor International Short Story Award for “Unaccustomed Earth”
• 2009 – Asian American Literary Award or “Unaccustomed Earth”
• 2009 – Premio Gregor von Rezzori for foreign fiction translated into Italian for “Unaccustomed Earth” (“Una nuova terra”), translated by Federica Oddera (Guanda)
• 2014 – DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for The Lowland
• 2014 – National Humanities Medal.