ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী

Jhumpa Lahiri (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী; born on July 11, 1967) is an Indian American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna, which are both "good names," but goes by her pet name Jhumpa.

Short story collections

• Interpreter of Maladies (1999)
• Unaccustomed Earth (2008)

Novels

• The Namesake (2003)

Short stories

• "Nobody's Business" (12 March 2001, The New Yorker) ("The Best American Short Stories 2002")
• "Hell-Heaven" (24 May 2004, The New Yorker)
• "Once In A Lifetime" (1 May 2006, The New Yorker)
• "Year's End" (24 December 2007, The New Yorker)