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Jhumpa Lahiri, the first Indian woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize, was awarded the 2000 Prize in Fiction for her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies,(Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin). Lahiri was also the recipient of an O.Henry Prize and was included in the anthology, Best of Short Fiction for 1999 for the story "A Temporary Matter."
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The first Indian to win a Pulitzer Prize was author and journalist Jhumpa Lahiri. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000 for her debut short story collection, "Interpreter of Maladies."
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