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Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit lost the Booker to Alan Hollinghurt’s The Line of Beauty yesterday, but Dangor is a happy man.
Bitter Fruit has been selling in the tens of thousands since it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a level of commercial success he says he never expected. “My book was a little tiny book published in South Africa and the United States and now they tell me 30 000 copies sold in two weeks in the UK. That is significant.”
Last weekend, Edward Wyatt commented on the sales power of the Booker relative to American book prizes like the National Book Awards.
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.