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Jhumpa Lahiri (born Nilanjana Sudeshna) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her collection of short stories, The Interpreter of Maladies.

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Interpreter of Maladies was written by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri.


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