Nilanjana Sudeshna “Jhumpa” Lahiri born July 11, 1967) is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian. Nilanjana Sudeshna’s debut collection of short-stories Interpreter of Maladies (1999) won the Putlizer Prize for Fiction and the PEN / Hemingway Award, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the…