Jhumpa Lahiri’s book shortlisted for Man Booker

The much-anticipated shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2013 is out and the Indian-born U.S.-based author Jhumpa Lahiri’s book The Lowland finds a place on it. She is one of six writers whose books have made it to the shortlist. The Lowland is Ms. Lahiri’s fourth novel. Her first The Interpreter of Maladies (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, The Namesake (2003) was made into a popular film. She also wrote Unaccustomed Earth (2008). 

The other five novels on the shortlist are We Need New Names is by the young Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, The Harvest by Jim Crace, A Tale for the Time Being by the Ruth Ozeki and The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin.