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SSC CHSL 2019 PYQ — Question 43

SSC CHSL - 8th July 2019 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q43

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Who among the following wrote the book 'The Namesake'?

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Correct answer: B

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The correct answer is option 2 i.e. Jhumpa Lahiri.

Who among the following wrote the book 'The Namesake'?

Jhumpa Lahiri

Who is Jhumpa Lahiri?
  • She is an American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian.
  • Her debut collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies (1999) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
  • The Namesake (2003) was her first novel.
  • She is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.