Jhumpa’s Lowland on Booker shortlist

Indian-origin Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri was on Tuesday shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize for The Lowland, as the 13-book longlist was whittled down to six books by judges.

The London-born Ms Lahiri, 46, author of Interpreter of Maladies (1999), The Namesake (2003), and Unaccustomed Earth (2008), was shortlisted with three other women — Canadian-American Ruth Ozeki, 57, also a Buddhist priest; NoViolet Bulawayo, 32, the first Zimbabwean on the shortlist; and New Zealander Eleanor Catton, at 28 the youngest on the list. The two others — Colm Tóibín and Jim Crace — had been shortlisted earlier too.