Jhumpa Lahiri on Man Booker longlist

My Apologies, could not help stealing this picture from her facebook profile. I found it extremely difficult to digest that such a gorgeous woman is a brilliant author at the same time! XD

• Jhumpa Lahiri has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize for her much-anticipated new novel 'The Lowland'.

• The extract of 'The Lowland' tells the story of Subhash and Udayan, two brothers who look identical, but different in ideology, as it is essentially tory of a young man's encounter with the Naxalite movement at the cost of his family, set in Kolkata.

• Jhumpa had won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her debut short story collection 'Interpreter of Maladies' (1999) 

• Her first novel, 'The Namesake' (2003), was adapted into a popular film of the same name. 

• Quote: "While it may not change the way the world looks at the Naxalbari movement, it will help refocus attention on it," she adds, pointing out that Nobel laureate V S Naipaul, too, touched upon the Leftwing rebellion in Andhra Pradesh in 'Half A Life'.

PS: Here's her facebook page, in case you're wondering. Follow her, like I did ;)