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Jhumpa Lahiri

1967 - Today

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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. The Namesake was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and was made into a major motion picture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jhumpa Lahiri has received more than 2,834,627 page views. Her biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Jhumpa Lahiri is the 5,775th most popular writer (down from 5,502nd in 2019), the 4,517th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,559th in 2019) and the 510th most popular British Writer.

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  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jhumpa Lahiri ranks 5,775 out of 7,302. Before her are Julian Symons, Ulrich Plenzdorf, Daniel Pearl, Nigella Lawson, Irmtraud Morgner, and Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov. After her are Florian Zeller, Mirvarid Dilbazi, Leyla Erbil, Steven Saylor, Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, and Avram Davidson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Jhumpa Lahiri ranks 284. Before her are Klaus Tschütscher, Jonas Thern, Sasha Mitchell, Leonidas Kavakos, Marisa Monte, and Mille Petrozza. After her are Billy Corgan, Tom Kristensen, Julio Dely Valdés, Marie NDiaye, Dana Vávrová, and Pavel Badea.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jhumpa Lahiri ranks 4,517 out of 8,785. Before her are Julian Symons (1912), Colin Salmon (1962), Matthew Lewis (1989), Nigella Lawson (1960), Heather Harper (1930), and John Francis Davis (1795). After her are Eddie Howe (1977), Ewen Bremner (1972), Thomas Tomkins (1572), Gerry Ashmore (1936), Marilyn Strathern (1941), and Brian Robertson (1956).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Jhumpa Lahiri ranks 510. Before her are Pauline Baynes (1922), David Mitchell (1969), Alan Ayckbourn (1939), Charles Williams (1886), Julian Symons (1912), and Nigella Lawson (1960). After her are Robert Edmond Grant (1793), Richard K. Morgan (1965), James Herbert (1943), Walter de la Mare (1873), John Masefield (1878), and Simon Sebag Montefiore (1965).

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