L.A. Times Book Prizes

Nominees for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize have been announced. In fiction, the shortlist includes E.L. Doctorow for The March, Mary Gaitskill for Veronica, Gabriel Garcia Marquez for Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Nick Hornby for A Long Way Down, and Haruki Murakami for Kafka on the Shore.

In the first fiction category, the nominees include Kirstin Allio for Garner, Karen Fisher for A Sudden Country, Olga Grushin for The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Uzodinma Iweala for Beasts of No Nation, and Marlon James for John Crow’s Devil.

I’m pretty psyched that Garner was included–the book, you’ll remember, was the LBC’s winter Read This! selection.

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.

News Topics

Trusted Resources