Her first novel the 'Namesake' was published in 2003.
She won Pulitzer Prize for her debut short story collection ‘Interpreter of Maldives’ in 1999.
She was nominated for the man booker’s prize 2013 for her much-anticipated novel ‘The Lowland’.
The lowland is based on the story of Subhash and Udayan two brothers who had identical thinking as it is essentially a story of a young man's encounter with the Naxalite movement at the cost of their family setting in Kolkata.