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Jhumpa Lahiri

1967 - Today

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Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (Bengali pronunciation: [d͡ʒʱumpa laːɦiɽi]; 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2024). Jhumpa Lahiri is the 5,711th most popular writer (up from 5,774th in 2024), the 4,667th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,516th in 2019) and the 509th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Jhumpa Lahiri ranks 5,711 out of 7,302. Before her are Christopher Paolini, Hannu Salama, Áron Tamási, Miklós Jósika, Gwendolyn Brooks, and H. A. Rey. After her are Lloyd C. Douglas, Niccolò Ammaniti, Alexei Panshin, Memnon of Heraclea, Jan Lechoń, and Melih Cevdet Anday.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Jhumpa Lahiri ranks 288. Before her are DJ Yella, Sul Kyung-gu, Nicola Berti, Sasha Mitchell, Klaus Tschütscher, and John Romero. After her are Fyodor Bondarchuk, Kate Barry, Claes Bang, Yukiko Okada, Gaston Browne, and Álex Pina.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jhumpa Lahiri ranks 4,668 out of 8,785. Before her are Nicholas Hooper (1952), David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919), Sydney Parkinson (1745), David Walliams (1971), John Peckham (1227), and I. J. Good (1916). After her are Gareth Barry (1981), Hugh Hopper (1945), Maud Gonne (1866), Thomas Walker Arnold (1864), Alexander Melville Bell (1819), and Miriam Rothschild (1908).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Jhumpa Lahiri ranks 509. Before her are Richard Llewellyn (1906), Nicholas Culpeper (1616), William Michael Rossetti (1829), Charles Allston Collins (1828), George William Russell (1867), and Elizabeth Montagu (1718). After her are David Garnett (1892), Humphrey Carpenter (1946), Roma Ryan (1950), Wilbert Awdry (1911), George Holyoake (1817), and Alfred Domett (1811).

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