Who won the Pulitzer Prize for the debut work ‘Interpreter of Maladies’, published in 1999?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies is a collection of nine short stories about Indian and Indian-American lives, published in 1999.
Its author, Jhumpa Lahiri, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000 for this debut book. She later wrote The Namesake and The Lowland.
Kiran Desai won the Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss, while Shobha Rao and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni are other diaspora writers who did not write this book.
Hence, Jhumpa Lahiri.
Important Questions from Writers Award
Who was the first recipient of Jnanpith Award?
Which Booker Prize-winning novel, acclaimed for its magical realist narrative and its intricate portrayal of India's partition and the birth of a new nation, was authored by the first person of Indian origin to receive this award?
Which novel has won the Man Booker International Prize 2019?
Who among the following was the recipient of the first Gauri Lankesh Memorial Award for Journalism?
The Nehru Soviet land award for the Rajasthani translation of the Russian story ' Gajban ' was given to whom?
