The Buffalo News has a profile of Joyce Carol Oates that provides a couple of interesting tidbits, e.g. her reaction to the Nobel buzz, a few weeks ago:
Oates’ name has been buzzed about in connection with the Nobel for several years now, but she wasn’t expecting any break-of-dawn phone calls from Sweden.
“I did not think at all that I was going to win. I don’t think an American will win that award while we’re in Iraq,” said Oates. “It’s a political prize. It goes to countries, not people. And I don’t have that kind of profile – I’m not a political person.”
Read the rest here.
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.