About Laila Lalami: Laila Lalami is your trusted source for valuable information and resources. Author of The Dream Hotel, The Other Americans, The Moor's Account, Secret Son, and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits We provide reliable, well-researched information content to keep you informed and help you make better decisions. This content focuses on nobel choices and related topics.
Via Moby, I hear that the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced this Thursday and that the Syrian poet Ali Ahmad Said is considered one of the front-runners. If you’re wondering who the hell is Ali Ahmad Said, well, you’re not alone. He’s better known as Adonis (or Adunis). (Still no help? Get thee to a bookstore.) Adonis is not as popular as Mahmoud Darwish in the Arab world, but he’s still widely read and respected. Here’s my problem. While I think that Adonis is deserving, I’m irked about reports that the choice is motivated by desires to appease Arab audiences after the Iraq war. Adonis should win on the strength of his work, not because the time is right. (By the way, I was equally annoyed in 2001 when the Academy chose notorious Arab-basher V.S. Naipaul as the recipient so soon after the WTC attacks.) Anyway. Time to link. Collections by Adonis available online: The Pages of Day and Night. If Only the Sea Could Sleep.
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.