Jhumpa Lahiri
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Barack Obama presents National Humanities medal to Jhumpa Lahiri
World | Sep 11, 2015, 10:52 AM ISTWashington: US President Barack Obama has presented the prestigious National Humanities Medal to Pulitzer Prize winner, Jhumpa Lahiri, in recognition of her “beautifully wrought narratives of estrangement and belonging” which highlight the “Indian-American experience”. Indian-American Lahiri
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US President Barack Obama to honour Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri at White House
World | Sep 10, 2015, 07:08 AM ISTWashington: US President Barack Obama will honour Indian-American Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri with the prestigious National Humanities Medal in recognition of her enlarging the human story.First Lady Michelle Obama would also be present at
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Jhumpa Lahiri to be presented with National Humanities Medal
World | Sep 04, 2015, 07:35 AM ISTWashington: Indian-American Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri has been selected for the prestigious 2014 National Humanities Medal which would be presented to her by US President Barack Obama next week.Jhumpa, 48, has been selected for
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Jhumpa Lahiri's novel among Barack Obama's summer reading list
World | Aug 14, 2015, 09:15 AM ISTWashington: Indian-American Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's second novel 'The Lowland' is among the six books which are part of the summer reading list of US President Barack Obama.Obama is currently on a summer
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Jaipur Litfest 2015: Jhumpa Lahiri wins USD 50K for 'The Lowland'
India | Jan 23, 2015, 02:15 PM ISTNew Delhi: Indo-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri has won the USD 50,000 DSC Prize for Literature, one of South Asia's top literary awards for her book 'The Lowland'. The announcement was made at the Jaipur Literature
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Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Lowland' shortlisted for top UK prize
India | Apr 08, 2014, 01:52 PM ISTNew Delhi: Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian American novelist Jhumpa Lahiri's “Lowland” has been shortlisted for this year's Baileys Prize, the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. “The Lowland”, which is about
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Jhumpa Lahiri loses out on US National Book Award
World | Nov 21, 2013, 11:35 AM ISTWashington : Pulitzer Prize winning Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel, "The Lowland" failed to win the 2013 US National Book Award in fiction losing out to author James McBride.McBride's "The Good Lord Bird", about
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Author Jhumpa Lahiri in Booker shortlist
World | Sep 10, 2013, 06:21 PM ISTLondon: Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri has made it to this year's Man Booker Prize shortlist for her new fiction ‘The Lowland', an intimate portrayal of two brothers set in Kolkata of the 1960s.Her tale, set