6 Exceptional Indian Women Writers

Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri made her debut with her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies in 1999. The book won the Plutizer Prize for Fiction in 2000. Her first novel ‘The Namesake’ was published in 2003, later adapted to a movie version by director-producer Mira Nair in 2006. Jhumpa is also a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, appointed by the U.S. President Barack Obama.  Being an Indian-American, Jhumpa’s work belongs to the generation of Indian origin writers whose story speaks poignantly of the tales of exile.
Her collection of short stories brings forth the sensitive dilemmas faced by Indians or Indian immigrants with themes like marital difficulties, miscarriages, and the disconnection between first and second generation U.S. immigrants. About her work, Jhumpa later wrote, “When I first started writing I was not conscious that my subject was the Indian-American experience. What drew me to my craft was the desire to force the two worlds I occupied to mingle on the page as I was not brave enough, or mature enough, to allow in life."

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