The Oregon Book Awards were handed out last Friday at a ceremony here in Portland. Local boy (and fellow southwest dweller) Marc Acito took home the Ken Kesey prize for the novel for How I Paid For College while Barry Lopez received the H.L. David Award for short fiction for Resistance. You can read Jeff Baker’s report at The Oregonian for more details.
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Official Oregon Book Awards site.
Marc Acito’s book recommendation for Moorishgirl.
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.