The Oregon Book Awards will be handed out at a ceremony this Friday. The finalists for the Ken Kesey Award for the Novel are:
Marc Acito: How I Paid for College
Kassten Alonso: Core
Phillip Margolin: Lost Lake
Kris Nelscott: War at Home
Michael Strelow: The Greening of Ben Brown
In short fiction, the finalists are:
Barry Lopez: Resistance
David Pinson: A Moment To Organize My Face
Both awards for fiction are judged by Mark Weingardner.
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.