American · b. 1967
Jhumpa Lahiri won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her debut story collection "Interpreter of Maladies," which explored the Indian immigrant experience with quiet precision. The American author's novel "The Lowland" was shortlisted for the 2013 Booker Prize. Lahiri later began writing in Italian, producing essays and fiction in her adopted language. Her work examines displacement, identity, and the weight of heritage.