Literary agency Curtis Brown is setting up its own film development division, in order to promote screen projects for its writers.
Variety reports that Curtis Brown, one of Europe’s oldest and largest agencies, has set up Cuba Pictures in order to help its clients “maintain more control” over the early stages of screen development. The division will, for example, produce first drafts itself before taking them to other financiers for further development.
So maybe Aleksandar Hemon wasn’t completely off his rocker when he spoke of books that want to be movies.
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.