Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri wins US$50,000 for 'The Lowland'

Indian-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri won Asia’s richest literary prize for her novel The Lowland at the Jaipur literature festival.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist beat four other shortlisted writers to the US$50,000 (RM179,200) DSC award for South Asian fiction, with a work that was described by chair of judges Keki N. Daruwalla as “a superb novel written in restrained prose with moments of true lyricism”, written “by a writer at the height of her powers”.