The Frank O’Connor award was for her latest book Unaccustomed Earth. The jury unanimously voted her the winner and took the very unusual step of skipping straight from the long list to the winner.
The new book has no intellectual strain but lots of emotion.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/jhumpa-on-familiar-ground-with-unaccustomed-earth/62700-19.html
With Namesake ready for release in the US, lead actor Kal Penn spoke to CNN-IBN about his character in the film.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/the-namesake-hero-spills-the-beans/34981-8.html
The Namesake tells a tale of a family moving from Kolkata to US and the struggle to cope with a new world.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/why-mira-nair-made-the-namesake/34929-8.html
"Mira wanted me and my family members to appear briefly as extras in the film and so I agreed," says the author.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/jhumpa-makes-her-film-debut/34868-8.html
Mira Nair’s much-awaited movie The Namesake is set to premiere in Kolkata, where it was partly shot, on Tuesday.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/the-namesake-premieres-in-kolkata/32412-8.html
Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri - Kiran Desai has now joined the league of great Indian authors.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/the-age-of-the-indian-author/23769-3.html
Chicago has chosen Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri for its programme, 'One Book, One Chicago'.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/chicago-raises-a-toast-to-jhumpa-lahiri/20790-8.html
Mira Nair's The Namesake will kick-start the annual IAAC Film Festival in New York in a gala event.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/ny-to-raise-toast-for-the-namesake/19535-8.html
The wait for the much anticipated The Namesake, directed by Mira Nair, has just become a little longer.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/the-namesake-may-be-worth-the-wait/17618-8.html
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