The nominees for the National Book Critics Circle award were announced last weekend in New York. In fiction, the finalists are:
Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
Pretty good list, I think. Who do you think will win? Drop me a line.
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.