I can’t quite decide which piece of news is the most surreal: the fact that poor Salman Rushdie is again in the cross-hairs of the wacko Revolutionary Guards in Iran or the fact that Rushdie is reportedly wooing Sophie Dahl, the model/author who is also the granddaughter of Roald Dahl. And in an even more surreal way, the two stories connect in this quote, attributed to the children’s author, that Rushdie “knew what he was doing and got what he was asking for.”
Ay Carumba.
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.