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Two interesting Portland events to mention this week, though they unfortunately are scheduled right against one another. The first is a rare appearance by Zlata Filipovic, the author of Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo. Here are details:
Zlata Filipovic
Looking Glass Bookstore
318 SW Taylor St.
Portland, OR
7 pm
Free
The other event is a LiveWire! Radio event with Michael Powell (yes, that Powell) along novelist Whitney Otto, and a whole bunch of musical acts. The show will take place at 6 pm at the Aladdin Theater.
LiveWire!
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukee
Portland, OR
6 pm
$9 adv., $10 dos.
I will go to one of these events, I’m just not yet sure which.
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.