For Powells.com‘s tenth anniversary, the Portland-based independent bookstore is having an essay contest. The topic: What was your most memorable reading experience of the last ten years? The ‘reading experience’ can be ‘any book or group of books, or individual essays or stories published within a larger volume, regardless of publication date, form, or subject matter.’ Submit here.
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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.