My friend Rick has been raving about Shahrnush Parsipur’s Touba and the Meaning of Night, which has just been released here in the States. This novel was written when Parsipur, already an established writer in Iran, had spent a few years in prison for her work. (She was to be incarcerated again, and her books periodically banned.) You can read an interview with her 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.