The winners of the Whitbread award have been announced–they are:
Novel: Small Island by Andrea Levy (who also won the Orange Prize last year for this book).
First novel: Eve Green by Susan Fletcher.
Biography: My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy.
Children’s literature: Not the End of the World by Geraldine McCaughrean.
Poetry: Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts
Now the judges (including actor Hugh Grant) will pick the overall winner. Coverage of this has started in all the usual places, and most of it is decent, though the Times takes the award for worst headline about: Whitbread judges favour women writers. Didn’t we just go through this with the NBA? And frankly, if 3 out of 5 are women, that could hardly be called favouring! God!
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.