We scanned several lists and have compiled one with varied, engaging themes from bestselling as well as new authors. Here is our 2021 – Fiction list by women authors.

The New York Times has featured her short story ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ in its bestseller list. In this book Lahiri shifted from the first-generation narrative to that of second and third who fail to identify with the culture of their immigrant parents.

Jhumpa Lahiri is the voice of Indian diaspora as her writing which is termed ‘immigrant fiction’ depicts the lives of Indians in their adopted homeland.

Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri, better known as Jhumpa Lahiri, turns 51 today. The talented Indian-American author has been selected as the winner of the 29th PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short story. Lahiri won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, which was launched in 1999. The Namesake, her first novel, was adapted into a film, […]

Jhumpa Lahiri turns 50 today, and we bring you some interesting facts about the bestselling author.

Jhumpa Lahiri has been awarded the 2014 National Medals of Arts and Humanities by US President Barack Obama at the White House for her exemplary writings centred around Indo- American experience from the lens of an Indian migrant. The Indian- American author in her novel through an array of characters gives a poignant reminder of […]