In The Observer, Stephanie Merritt lists some of the highlights of the new year in books. Among the more intriguing: Ian McEwan’s Saturday, which takes place over the course of one day of antiwar protest in February 2003, new novels from Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie, a collection of essays by Mark Danner, and more.
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.