In addition to athletics, the Olympics used to include arts and literature competitions. This tradition, discontinued since 1952, is being revived by the city of Hamburg,which hosted literature games. They even and announced a winner to coincide with the Athens games. But, oddly, the competition is called the “international Eleven-Minutes-Sports-Novel Contest.” What’s next? The international Three-Second-Triple-Jump-Poem contest?
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.