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Who received the Pulitzer Prize for their first work Interpreter of Maladies published in 1999?

  1. AAnita Desai
  2. BJhumpa LahiriCorrect answer
  3. CArundhati Roy
  4. DChitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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B. Jhumpa Lahiri

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Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000) for her debut short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies.

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