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If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you may know that I have an obsession with Ahdaf Soueif. This month she’s chairing the judging panel for the 2003 Orange Prize, for which the long list has been announced. The expected names are there of course: Zadie Smith, Alice Sebold, Carol Shields, Donna Tart, et cetera. But I was tickled to see Julie Otsuka’s name there as well. I just started When the Emperor was Divine and am loving it.
In other news, Soueif was also on the judging panel for the 2003 Independent Foreign Fiction prize. And she’ll also be giving a talk at the Lannan Foundation in April.
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.