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The latest installment of the Lannan Foundation’s Readings and Conversations series features Edwidge Danticat with Junot Díaz this Wednesday, November 30, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Details here.
Longtime readers of this blog know that I’m a huge fan of both Danticat and Díaz’s work. If any of you are able to attend, do please write in and tell us how it was.
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.