Year and Award
1993 -- TransAtlantic Award from the Henfield Foundation
1999 -- O. Henry Award for short story "Interpreter of Maladies"
1999 -- PEN/Hemingway Award (Best Fiction Debut of the Year) for "Interpreter of Maladies"
1999 -- "Interpreter of Maladies" selected as one of Best American Short Stories
2000 -- Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
2000 -- The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year for "Interpreter of Maladies"
2000 -- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut Interpreter of Maladies
2000 — James Beard Foundation's M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for "Indian Takeout" in Food & Wine Magazine
2002 -- Guggenheim Fellowship
2002 - "Nobody's Business" selected as one of "Best American Short Stories"
2008 - Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for "Unaccustomed Earth"
Columbia University President George Rupp presents Jhumpa Lahiri with The 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.