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According to Publisher’s Marketplace, paperback rights to Alaa Al-Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building (a huge bestseller in the Arab world, and currently being made into the biggest budget Arabic-language feature film) have gone to Courtney Hodell at Harper. I received the hardback edition in the mail just yesterday (thanks to the American University in Cairo Press) and will report back once I get to it, hopefully in a week or so.
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.