[Louis de Bernières is] currently working on another novel, and two short story collections, but is not one of your “method writers” who rise at 5:30 every morning to read their mail, work out at the gym then hammer out their daily 3,000 words. “I only write when I feel moved by the spirit,” he declares, and when I mention that many writers insist that the only way is daily hard graft, sorting the gems from the dross, he is unrepentant. “I think that
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.