Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri (born July 11, 1967) is a British-American author renowned for her short stories and novels exploring the immigrant experience, particularly that of Indian-Americans. Her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, while subsequent works like The Namesake (2003), Unaccustomed Earth (2008), and The Lowland (2013) earned her finalist nods for the Booker Prize and National Book Award, along with the National Humanities Medal in 2014.