Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri

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Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri, better known as Jhumpa Lahiri, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author renowned for her fiction exploring Indian-American immigrant experiences and identity.

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instanceOf essayist
human
novelist
professor
short story writer
translator
writer
awardReceived Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award
PEN/Hemingway Award
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
citizenship Italy
United States of America
countryOfBirth United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1967-07-11
educatedAt Barnard College
Boston University
employer Princeton University
ethnicOrigin Bengali
fieldOfWork fiction
literary translation
short stories
gender female
genre autofiction
literary fiction
short story
hasBirthName Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri self-link
hasCulturalBackground Bengali Indian
hasFamilyName Amar Lahiri
surface form: Lahiri
hasGivenName Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri self-linksurface differs
surface form: Nilanjana
hasName Jhumpa Lahiri
languageOfWorkOrName English
Italian
nationality Indian-American
notableFor exploring Indian-American immigrant experiences
exploring themes of identity and displacement
notableWork In Other Words
Interpreter of Maladies
The Lowland
The Namesake
Unaccustomed Earth
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occupation author
university professor
parentalOrigin India
placeOfBirth London, England
surface form: London
residence Rome
writingLanguage English
Italian

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Jhumpa Lahiri birthName Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri givenName Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
this entity surface form: Nilanjana
Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri hasBirthName Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri self-link
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this entity surface form: Nilanjana