Who is the author of the book “The Interpreter of Maladies”?

Jhumpa Lahiri
Sunetra Gupta
Arundhati Roy
Kiran Desai

The correct answer is A. Jhumpa Lahiri.

Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian-American author of short stories and novels. Her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1999. Her first novel, The Namesake, was published in 2003 and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2006. Her second novel, Unaccustomed Earth, was published in 2008. Her third novel, The Lowland, was published in 2013. She has also written a memoir, In Other Words, published in 2015.

Sunetra Gupta is a British poet, playwright, and novelist. She was born in London to Indian parents. Her poetry collections include “Meat” (1985), “The Glassblower” (1992), and “The Terrible Slow Motion Show” (2005). Her plays include “Satchmo at the Fiesta” (1994), “The Waiting Room” (1999), and “The Anniversary” (2006). Her novels include “Flesh and Blood” (1995), “The Glassblower” (1992), and “The Terrible Slow Motion Show” (2005).

Arundhati Roy is an Indian author, filmmaker, and political activist. She is best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the Man Booker Prize in 1997. Her other works include the non-fiction books The Cost of Living (1999), Power Politics (2001), and War Talk (2003).

Kiran Desai is an Indian author. She is the author of the novels Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), The Inheritance of Loss (2006), and The Zigzag Way (2015). She has also written a short story collection, The Village by the Sea (2002). Her work has been translated into over 30 languages.