Jhumpa Lahiri's story collection 'Interpreter of Maladies' won which of the following awards?
- A.Booker Prize
- B.Nobel Prize in Literature
- C.Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- D.Jnanpith Award
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Interpreter of Maladies, her first book, is a collection of nine stories about Indian families in America, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000. The Pulitzer is an American award, given on the recommendation of a board at Columbia University in New York.
Option A, the Booker Prize, is a British award for a novel written in English, and a collection of short stories was not eligible for it at that time; the Indian-origin winners are Naipaul, Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Adiga. Option B, the Nobel Prize in Literature, honours a writer's whole body of work, and among writers connected with India it has gone to Rabindranath Tagore in 1913, Kipling in 1907 and Naipaul in 2001. Option D, the Jnanpith Award, is India's own literary honour, given for writing in the recognised Indian languages and in English.
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