As TEV reported late yesterday, Andrew Sean Greer has just won the Young Lions Award, awarded by the New York Public Library to an emerging author under the age of 35. Greer won for his wonderful book, The Confessions of Max Tivoli. The finalists were Marc Bojanowski for The Dog Fighter, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum for Madeleine Is Sleeping, Stephen Elliott for Happy Baby, and Aaron Gwyn for Dog on the Cross.
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.