In Brief

• Rodney Welch reviews Yiyun Li’s debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, for the Washington Post, comparing it favorably to Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies.
• Nigerian writer Chika Unigwe has launched a website.
• Jordan Rosenfeld reviews Daniel Olivas’ Devil Talk for Northern California’s KQED.
  

  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.