On Tour: PEN World Voices Festival

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I will be doing several panels at the PEN World Voices Festival. I’m really excited about this festival–it’s really one of my favorites. Here are details for all of my events:

Thursday, April 30, 2009
10:00 AM
Personal Evolution, Social Revolution: Edwidge Danticat, Dany Laferrière, Laila Lalami, and Colum McCann; moderated by Benjamin Anastas
PEN World Voices Festival
Instituto Cervantes New York, 211–215 East 49th Street
New York, New York

Friday, May 1, 2009
12:30 – 2:00PM
Garden Readings: With Laila Lalami, Morten Ramsland, and Peter Weber
PEN World Voices
Deutsches Haus, at NYU, 42 Washington Mews
New York, New York

Friday, May 1, 2009
3:00 – 4:30 PM
This Critical Moment: With Eric Banks, Rigoberto González, Laila Lalami, and Kevin Prufer; moderated by Jane Ciabattari
PEN World Voices
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue
New York, New York

Friday, May 1, 2009
6:00 – 7:00 PM
Season of Migration to the North: The Work of Tayeb Salih
With Elias Khoury, Laila Lalami, Bruce Robbins, and Raja Shehadeh
PEN World Voices
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue
New York, New York

You don’t need to have tickets for any of these events, so please come by and say hello.

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.