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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Predicate Object
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 NERFINISHED
employer Princeton University
ethnicOrigin Bengali
fieldOfWork fiction
literary translation
short stories
gender female
genre autofiction
literary fiction
short story
hasBirthName Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
hasCulturalBackground Bengali Indian
hasFamilyName Lahiri
hasGivenName 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
Whereabouts
occupation author
university professor
parentalOrigin India
placeOfBirth London
residence Rome
writingLanguage English
Italian

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Jhumpa Lahiri
birthName
Jhumpa Lahiri ("Nilanjana")
givenName
Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
hasBirthName
Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri ("Nilanjana")
hasGivenName

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