The work was adapted into a 2007 Mira Nair film starring Irfan Khan and Tabu, with Lahiri acknowledging that she felt a connection to the director's sensibilities. In 2003, Lahiri followed up with The Namesake, a novel that followed the lives, perspectives and changing family ties of the Gangulis, an Indian couple in an arranged marriage who relocate to America. Interpreter won an array of honors, including the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Hemingway Award. The work's depth-driven plots allowed glimpses into the lives of characters both in India and the States. Upon completing a Provincetown, Cape Cod, residency, Lahiri was able to share with the world her first book, a collection of nine stories, Interpreter of Maladies, published in 1999. She then joined the student body of Boston University, earning three literary master's degrees before receiving her doctorate in Renaissance studies. With the family nickname, 'Jhumpa,' coming to be used by school teachers, Lahiri went on to attend Barnard College in New York, focusing on English literature. Lahiri's father, a university librarian, opted to relocate to the United States for work, eventually settling in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, when she was still a small child. Nilanjana Sudheshna Lahiri was born on July 11, 1967, in London, England, to mother Tapati and father Amar, a Bengali couple who immigrated to the United Kingdom from Calcutta, India.

Lahiri's 2013 novel, The Lowland, was partially inspired by real-world political events. 1 New York Times best-seller Unaccustomed Earth. She followed up in 2003 with her first novel, The Namesake, and returned to short stories with the No. Author Jhumpa Lahiri published her debut in 1999, Interpreter of Maladies, winning the Pulitzer Prize.

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