The longlist for the 2005 IMPAC award has been announced. The BBC’s report focuses on the inclusion of previous Booker winner DBC Pierre, Whitbread winner Mark Haddon, and other high-profile authors, but the longlist is quite diverse–you can see it on the IMPAC website. It includes Diana Abu-Jaber (for Crescent) and Rachel Cusk (for The Lucky Ones) among many others. The winner will be announced next June. The 2004 award went to Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.