Nilanjana Sudeshna “Jhumpa” Lahiri (born July 11, 1967) 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.
Books in order of publication (In English and Italian):
Novels
The Namesake. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2003.
The Lowland (2013)
Dove mi trovo (in Italian). Milan: Guanda. 2018.
Whereabouts. Translated by Lahiri, Jhumpa. New York: Knopf. 2021.
Short story collections
Interpreter of Maladies (1999)
Unaccustomed Earth (2008)
Racconti romani (in Italian). Rome: Guanda. 2022
Roman Stories – 2023
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