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Last year it was Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, this year it’s David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. The most buzzed-about book for the Booker Prize lost to the quiet The Line of Beauty. Alan Hollinghurst’s novel is said to be the first winner to ever feature a gay man as the main character. Here’s a Guardian piece about it. The Scotsman asks whether the novel earned its win. (Their answer: Yes.) And some more details from the awards, courtesy of the BBC.
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.