WRITER

Jhumpa Lahiri

1967 - Today

Jhumpa Lahiri

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 2,600,634 page views. Her biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Jhumpa Lahiri is the 5,774th most popular writer (down from 5,502nd in 2019), the 4,516th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,559th in 2019) and the 510th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

2.6M
Page Views (PV)
45.01
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
58
Languages Editions (L)
2.61
Effective Languages (L*)
6.04
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Interpreter of Maladies

East Indian Americans, Social life and customs, East Indian Americans in fiction

1999

The lowland

Large type books, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Naxalite movement

Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds.

2013

The Lowland

Naxalite movement, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Families

2013

Unaccustomed Earth

Fiction, Bengali Americans in fiction, Bengali (South Asian people)

These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. Rich with the signature gifts that have established Jhumpa Lahiri as one of our most essential writers, Unaccustomed Earth exquisitely renders the most intricate workings of the heart and mind.From the Trade Paperback edition.

2008

The Namesake

Alienación (Psicología social), Alienation (Social psychology), Appreciation

Gogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy starts to hate the awkward name and itches to cast it off, along with the inherited values it represents. Determined to live a life far removed from that of his parents, Gogol sets off on his own path only to discover that the search for identity depends on much more than a name.

2003

In other words

Interlanguage (Language learning), Travel, Biography

"A series of reflections on the author's experiences learning a new language and living abroad, in a dual-language edition"--

2016

Page views of Jhumpa Lahiris by language

Over the past year Jhumpa Lahiri has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 304,945 views, followed by Italian (17,709), and Spanish (9,280). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (600.00%), Ukrainian (501.33%), and (315.00%)