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Which Indian-American author wrote The Namesake, later adapted into a film?

  1. AKiran Desai
  2. BJhumpa LahiriCorrect answer
  3. CArundhati Roy
  4. DChetan Bhagat
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B. Jhumpa Lahiri

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Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian-American author best known for The Namesake, a novel on immigrant identity later adapted into a film. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000) for Interpreter of Maladies and also wrote Unaccustomed Earth and The Lowland.

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