The Scotsman runs a profile of Helen Oyeyemi, the twenty-year-old Nigerian writer who made a splash last year by signing a two-book deal with Bloomsbury. The obligatory Zadie Smith comparisons are made. Both authors are black and British, you see. Oyeyemi’s first novel, The Icarus Girl, has just been published in the U.K.
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.